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Outsourcing of services and the productivity recovery in U.S. manufacturing in the 1980s

ten Raa, Thijs; Wolff, E.N. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1996

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Debreu's Coefficient of Resource Utilization, the Solow Residual and TPF : The Connection by Leontief Preferences

ten Raa, Thijs - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2003

decomposition of productivity growth into technical change and efficiency change.The terms can now be broken down by sector as well …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011091863

Aggregation of Productivity Indices : The Allocative Efficiency Correction

ten Raa, Thijs - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2004

Industry productivity is obtained by aggregation of firm productivities and inclusion of the appropriate allocative … efficiency terms, one for each firm.This paper identifies the latter correction terms. …

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The Theory of Benchmarking and the Measurement of Industrial Organization

ten Raa, Thijs - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006

efficiency change.In other words, the two well-known sources of productivity growth-technology and efficiency-can be augmented by … a third one, namely the industrial organization effect.In this paper the efficiency of an industrial organization and … its contribution to performance are measured by benchmarking all firms on the industry.More precisely, efficiency is …

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Methodological Interactionism : Theory and Application to the Firm and to the Building of Trust

Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2007

Recent insights from the ‘embodied cognition’ perspective in cognitive science, supported by neural research, provide a basis for a ‘methodological interactionism’ that transcends both the methodological individualism of economics and the methodological collectivism of (some) sociology,...

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Beyond Penrose : A Cognitive Theory of the Firm

Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006

This paper uses a cognitive theory of firms and organizations, with a focus on learning and innovation.Here, cognition is a wide notion, including value judgments and corresponding feelings and emotions.This paper focuses on the relation between that cognitive theory and Penrose's theory of the...

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Cooperative Games and Disjunctive Permission Structures

Gilles, R.P.; Owen, G. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1999

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Embodied Cognition, Organization and Innovation

Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006

This chapter explains and employs a constructivist, interactionist theory of knowledge that has come to be known as the perspective of 'embodied cognition'. That view has roots in earlier developmental psychology, and in sociology, and more recently has received further substance from neural...

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Elements of a Cognitive Theory of the Firm

Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2005

This paper presents elements of a cognitive theory of the firm, from the perspective of embodied cognition.It entails the notion of 'cognitive distance' between people that have developed their cognition in different environments. This yields the notion of the firm as a 'focusing device', to...

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Firms, Nonprofits, and Cooperatives : A Theory of Organizational Choice

Prüfer, Jens; Herbst, P. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2007

highest levels of quality. Efficiency, however, depends on the competitive environment, the decision making process and …

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