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Business strategy and firm reorganization under changing market conditions
Ghosal, Vivek - 2009
this paper is an observation-based analysis conducted by visiting selected paper mills in Finland, the U.S., Germany and … relatively similar firms lends credence to the insights provided by Denrell, Fang and Winter (2003) and Zott (2003), among others …
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Growing Like China: Firm Performance and Global Production Line Position
Chor, Davin; Manova, Kalina B.; Yu, Zhihong - 2020
Global value chains have fundamentally transformed international trade and development in recent decades. We use matched firm-level customs and manufacturing survey data, together with Input-Output tables for China, to examine how Chinese firms position themselves in global production lines and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314823
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A Class of Behavioral Models for the Profit-Maximizing Firm
Choné, Philippe; Linnemer, Laurent - 2022
We study the behavior of a firm that consistently maximizes a misspecified profit function. We provide an equilibrium concept where the misspecification error remains undetected. We examine the uniqueness and stability of the equilibria. The model of the price-taking firm belongs to this class....
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Information Frictions, Investment Promotion, and Multinational Production: Firm-Level Evidence
Carballo, Jerónimo; Marra de Artiñano, Ignacio; Volpe … - 2021
While countries make use of a wide range of policies to attract multinational firms, identifying the effect of such policies is difficult. Combining firm-level data on both the location of these firms’ foreign affiliates and detailed service-specific information from Costa Rica’s investment...
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ICT, Collaboration, and Science-Based Innovation: Evidence from BITNET
Wernsdorf, Kathrin; Nagler, Markus; Watzinger, Martin - 2020
Does access to information and communication technologies (ICT) increase innovation? We examine this question by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012425552
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Information Constraints and Technology Efficiency: Field Experiments Benchmarking Firms Website Performance
Adem, Anwar; Kneller, Richard; Li, Cher - 2023
This study examines the influence of information constraints on firms' efficiency in using digital technologies, focusing on business websites. Through two natural field experiments in the UK, we provide firms with benchmarked performance information on their websites. The experimental designs...
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Incentives and Creativity in Groups
Ramm, Joachim; Tjøtta, Sigve; Torsvik, Gaute - 2013
It has been argued that monetary incentives restrain individual creativity and hamper performance in jobs requiring out of the box thinking. This paper reports from an experiment designed to test if the negative incentive effect is present also when individuals work together to solve such...
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Working from Home around the World
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2022
innovation. …
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Product versus Process: Innovation Strategies of Multi-Product Firms
Flach, Lisandra; Irlacher, Michael - 2015
We investigate the effect of better access to foreign markets on innovation strategies of multi-product firms in … between the returns to innovation. In differentiated industries, cannibalization is lower and firms invest more in product … innovation. In homogeneous industries, firms internalize intra-firm spillovers and invest more in process innovation. We test …
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Determinants of survival of newly created SMEs in the Brazilian manufacturing: An econometric study
Façanha, Luis Otávio; Resende, Marcelo; Cardoso, Vicente - 2012
The paper investigates the survival of newly created small and medium enterprises in Brazilian manufacturing taking as reference the 1996-2005 period. The econometric analysis relies on time-varying version of the proportional hazard rate model that controls for unobserved heterogeneity. The...
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