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Eliasson, Gunnar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1988

Results from empirical studies of firm behavior are synthesized into, a theory of the firm as a competent team. I demonstrate the existence of a tacit organizational competence exercising a leverage on the productivities of all other factors through selecting and allocating competent people,...

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An Indirect Approach to Measuring Productivity in Private Services

Mellander, Erik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1991

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What Can Input Tell About Output? Analyzing Productivity and Efficiency in the Absence of Output measures

Mellander, Erik; Ysander, Bengt-Christer - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1988

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Production Hierarchies in Sweden

Tåg, Joacim - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013

I study the internal organization of firms using occupation data on workers in Swedish manufacturing firms. Firms with more layers are larger in size, in value added, and they pay higher wages. Firms are hierarchal in that lower layers have more workers and lower mean wage than higher layers....

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Retail Productivity: Investigating the Influence of Market Size and Regional Hierarchy

Öner, Özge - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

This paper investigates the determinants of the productivity of independent retail stores in Sweden by focusing on the … located in central and non-central markets respectively. The results show an approximately 10 percent higher productivity … markets. The findings also show that employee characteristics do not contribute to the productivity of stores in central …

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Productivity Analysis: A Micro-to-Macro Perspective

Carlsson, Bo - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1987

This paper raises several issues concerning productivity analysis. An attempt is made to demonstrate the usefulness of … a micro-based approach to productivity analysis which challenges some basic assumptions of conventional analyses based … relationships between investment, productivity, and economic growth are much more complex and unpredictable than commonly assumed …

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Strategic Investments in the Pulp and Paper Industry: A Count Data Regression Analysis

Bergman, Mats A.; Johansson, Per - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2000

This paper analyses the effects of price and market size variables on the investment propensities in the pulp and paper industry. A panel of 15 European countries in the time period 1984 - 1997 is used in the regression analysis. We find the wages, the US/ECU exchange rate, the price of paper...

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Explaining Parallel Mobile Telephone Networks: A Theoretical Model

Segendorff, Björn - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1995

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Internal Efficiency and External Conditions.

Weibull, J-W - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997

This paper develops a new analystical approach to the old question whether market conditions may influence the internal efficiency of firms. The basic textbook model of the firm is slightly extended to incorporate managers' incentives to reduce production costs in an imperfectly competitive...

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Is Human Capital the Key to the IT Productivity Paradox?

Mellander, Erik; Savvidiou, Eleni; Gunnarsson, Gudmundur - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001

Unlike previous analyses, we consider (i) that IT may affect productivity growth both directly and indirectly, through …

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