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Recent work linking the adoption of key organizational practices to productivity raises an important question: if adoption increases productivity so dramatically, why does adoption across an industry take so long? This paper explores this question in the context of one particularly interesting...
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general features of organizational change in manufacturing firms with more than 50 employees. In a first section, we explore … the methodological issues associated with the building up of a statistical measure of organizational change, we describe … organizational change. In a second section, we present the results of two correspondence analysis, one conducted on a sample of 1462 …
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almost exclusively been introduced through organizational change in existing firms. We show that for the U.S. and global … organizational change is necessary for incumbent firms to remain competitive and, ultimately, to survive. Japan's sharply higher … organizational change/new entry ratio compared to the U.S. during the biotech revolution is related to Japan's relatively compact …
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One of the productive activities engaging the work force is reorganizing. When factors of production are better matched, productivity is higher. The probabilistic matching model of Diamond, Mortensen, and others provides a way to make the idea of reorganization precise. Because the flow of...
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In this paper we analyze the evolution of the Mexican economy between 1995 and 1998. The remarkable quick recovery seen in aggregate activity has not been uniform across the economy. The tradable sector has grown strongly, while the non-tradable sector has recuperated only sluggishly. This...
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In principle, firms in developing countries benefit from the fact that advanced technologies and products have already been developed in industrialized countries and can simply be adopted, a process often referred to as industrial upgrading. But for many firms this advantage remains elusive....
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Some previous analyses have suggested that the smoothing of tax rates over time would be a desirable guide for public debt management. One implication of this viewpoint is that future changes in tax rates would be unpredictable based on current information. This proposition is tested by...
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This paper examines whether there are complementarities between investments in ICT, R&D and organizational innovation, and the effects of different investment profiles on total factor productivity growth on Dutch firm-level data. We estimate an integrated model of investment profile adoption and...
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This paper exploits a unique offshoring survey to show that firms continue domestic production of the same goods they offshore to low-wage countries. This shift towards "produced-good imports" coincides with a reallocation of labor from physical production to innovation and technology...
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