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the medical and economic literature on HICT adoption and its impact on clinical outcomes, productivity and labor. We find … HICT on productivity is needed to guide further adoption. There is little econometric work directly investigating the … productivity stressing the importance of complementary factors (e.g. management and skills) in determining HICT impacts …
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We link a new UK management survey covering 8,000 firms to panel data on productivity in manufacturing and services …. There is a large variation in management practices, which are highly correlated with productivity, profitability and size …
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. These management practices are strongly associated with higher productivity, growth, trade, and innovation. One indicator of … with frictions lowering aggregate management quality and productivity …
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When investing in research and development (R&D), institutions must decide whether to take a top-down approach -- soliciting a particular technology -- or a bottom-up approach in which innovators suggest ideas. This paper examines a reform to the U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research...
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National industrial concentration in the U.S. has risen sharply since the early 1980s, but there remains dispute over whether local geographic concentration has followed a similar trend. Using near population data from the Economic Censuses, we confirm and extend existing evidence on national...
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