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Productivity Effects of United States Multinational Enterprises: The Roles of Market Orientation and Regional Integration
Smeets, Roger; Wei, Yingqi - In: Regional Studies 44 (2010) 8, pp. 949-963
Smeets R. and Wei Y. Productivity effects of United States multinational enterprises: the roles of market orientation and regional integration, Regional Studies. This paper considers the role of market orientation and regional integration in foreign direct investment (FDI) productivity effects....
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Visionary, precautionary and constrained 'varieties of devolution' in the economic governance of the devolved UK territories
Cooke, Philip; Clifton, Nick - In: Regional Studies 39 (2005) 4, pp. 437-451
Development Agency and other 'quangos' are to be absorbed into the Assembly government as elements of an endogenous innovation …
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Begging Bowl Meets Baseball Bat? Lessons for the UK from the Australian Fiscal Model
Pickernell, David; Mcgovern, Mark - In: Regional Studies 36 (2002) 6, pp. 703-707
that of Australia. The Australian system, and in particular its fiscal system of distribution, is outlined, as are the …
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Invisible Businesses: The Characteristics of Home-based Businesses in the United Kingdom
Mason, Colin; Carter, Sara; Tagg, Stephen - In: Regional Studies 45 (2011) 5, pp. 625-639
Mason C. M., Carter S. and Tagg S. Invisible businesses: the characteristics of home-based businesses in the United Kingdom, Regional Studies. Home-based businesses comprise a significant proportion of the small business sector. But because they are invisible, their economic significance is...
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Encouraging the Transition into Self-employment
Shutt, John; Sutherland, John - In: Regional Studies 37 (2003) 1, pp. 97-103
SHUTT J. and SUTHERLAND J. (2003) Encouraging the transition into self- employment, Reg. Studies 37 , 97-103. A feature of the current New Deal policy is the encouragement now given to young people to consider becoming self- employed. This article reports the findings of an evaluation of a...
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Changing Use of External Business Advice and Government Supports by SMEs in the 1990s
Bennett, Robert; Robson, Paul - In: Regional Studies 37 (2003) 8, pp. 795-811
BENNETT R. J. and ROBSON P. J. A. (2003) Changing use of external business advice and government supports by SMEs in the 1990s, Reg. Studies 37 , 795-811. This paper uses cross-sectional surveys of 1991 and 1997, a panel survey of firms surviving between 1991 and 1997 and comparison with a...
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Strategic Approaches to CO2 Emissions - The Case of the Cement Industry and of the Chemical Industry
Arjaliès, Diane Laure; Goubet, Cécile; Ponssard, … - CESifo - 2014
The ability of companies to turn an environmental constraint into a source of strategic opportunities is a controversial topic in published research. The article, which is based on a comparative study of the CO2 emission reduction strategies implemented by the cement and chemical industries,...
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How Do Judgmental Overconfidence and Overoptimism Shape Innovative Activity?
Herz, Holger; Schunk, Daniel; Zehnder, Christian - CESifo - 2013
that the connection between overconfidence and innovation is more complex than the previous literature suggests. In … innovative activity. While overoptimism leads to an innovation enhancing effect, judgmental overconfidence inhibits innovation …. Our results indicate that future research is well advised to take into account that the relationship between innovation …
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Innovation Contests
Pérez-Castrillo, David; Wettstein, David - CESifo - 2014
We study innovation contests with asymmetric information and identical contestants, where contestants’ efforts and … highest quality and receives the revenue generated by the innovation. We characterize the equilibrium behavior, outcomes and …
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Creative Destruction and Productive Preemption
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Svensson, Roger - CESifo - 2013
We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are …
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