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This paper reflects upon the way that we balanced design and development in three specific case projects in order to contribute to creating and accumulating knowledge that is both relevant to practitioners and academics. More specifically, it is shown how learning within one project was used to...
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Mobile remittances have a high development potential as they hold the promise of providing quick, easy and cheap money transfers. In Africa mobile phone usage has increased sharply and mobile banking providers are extending their services, enabling greater opportunities for mobile remittances....
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countries. However we are evidencing that the majority of the CDM projects deploy local sources of technology, which challenges … the North- South technology transfer paradigm established under the sustainable development agenda of the KP. This paper … is an attempt to explain technology sourcing patterns in CDM projects through employment of knowledge base determinants …
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The paper uses data from a recent survey on Brazilian firms to investigate the role of technology in the … these days, and their technology-seeking purpose is a strong driver for the internationalization, as firms are searching for … decisions to invest in developed destinations. We found out that technology is an asset used as a competitive resource, and that …
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In this paper we model interactions between organizational structures, job stress, emotional contagion and organization performance. An organization is modelled as solving problems or performing tasks. Tasks enter the organization and can be addressed by a subset of its members. Organization...
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presents some empirical evidence on the effects of innovation on employment growth and therefore on firms' productivity with …
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, process and organizational innovation), which ultimately feeds into a productivity equation. We find that ICT investment and … product innovation in manufacturing. The strongest productivity effects are derived from organizational innovation. We find …
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This paper examines productivity, export-intensity, skills-intensity and technological differences between foreign and … significant technology index, human resource, process technology and R&D capabilities than local firms. However, the remaining t …-tests produced mixed results. Nonetheless, foreign firms enjoyed stronger statistical relationships between the technology index, and …
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productivity, the coefficient of technology index was higher in the foreign firms' sample than in the local firms' sample. Local … significant Kenyan results suggest that foreign firms' technology, productivity and export-intensity levels in economies with weak …This paper uses firm level survey data to examine productivity, and export, skills and technological intensities …
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A key feature of globalisation has been the growth and spread of multinational enterprises (MNEs), but there is here is considerable evidence that MNEs do not regard all locations as being equivalent. MNE activity both to and from peripheral economies differs from MNE activity associated with...
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