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Social networks and technology adoption in Northern Mozambique

Bandiera, Oriana; Rasul, Imran - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

Despite their potentially strong impact on poverty, agricultural innovations are often adopted slowly. Using a unique household dataset on sunflower adoption in Mozambique, we analyse whether and how individual adoption decisions depend upon the choices of others in the same social networks....

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A general model of information sharing in oligopoly

Raith, Michael A. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1993

Under which circumstances do oligopolists have an incentive to share private information about a stochastic demand or stochastic costs? We present a general model which includes virtually all models of the existing literature on information sharing as special cases. The analysis reveals that in...

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Does high involvement management lead to higher pay?

Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

Using nationally representative survey data for Finnish employees linked to register data on their wages and work histories we find wage effects of high involvement management (HIM) practices are generally positive and significant. However, employees with better wage and work histories are more...

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Trade liberalization, outsourcing, and firm productivity

Ossa, Ralph - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

outsourcing as firms focus on their core competencies in response to tougher competition. Since firms are the better at performing … tasks the closer they are to their core competencies, this outsourcing increases firm productivity. Moreover, I also … investigate the links between various technological parameters and outsourcing. In particular, I analyze how technological …

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Outsourcing and offshoring engineering projects: understanding the value, sourcing models, and coordination practices

Willcocks, Leslie P.; Oshri, Ilan; Kotlarsky, Julia; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

In this paper, we review recent developments in the field of outsourcing and offshoring and the implications for … engineering management. We examine three aspects involved in outsourcing and offshoring, namely, sourcing models, coordination …, and value extracted from outsourcing projects. We conclude that additional research is needed on recent trends in …

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Off-shoring of business services and de-industrialization: threat or opportunity - and for whom?

Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

This paper takes a new look at the issue of overseas sourcing of services. In framework in which comparative advantage is endogenous to agglomeration economies and factor mobility, the fragmentation of production made possible by the new communication technologies and low transportation costs...

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The determinants of intrafirm trade: evidence from French firms

Corcos, Gregory; Irac, Delphine M.; Mion, Giordano; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

How well does the theory of the firm explain the choice between intrafirm and arms' length trade? This paper uses firm-level import data from France to look into this question. We find support for three key predictions of property-rights theories of the multinational firm. Intrafirm imports are...

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Internationalization and innovation of firms: evidence and policy

Altomonte, Carlo; Aquilante, Tommaso; Békés, Gábor; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

We use a representative and cross-country comparable sample of manufacturing firms (EFIGE) to document patterns of interaction among firm-level internationalization, innovation and productivity across seven European countries (Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom). We...

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The determinants of vertical integration in export processing: theory and evidence from China

Fernandes, Ana; Tang, Heiwai - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

outsourcing in export processing trade. We exploit the coexistence of two regulatory export processing regimes in China, which …

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Productivity and the sourcing modes of multinational firms: evidence from French firm-level data

Defever, Fabrice; Toubal, Farid - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

assume higher fixed costs under outsourcing and a firm-specific production function. We use detailed French firm-level data …

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