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Experience, innovation and productivity : empirical evidence from Italy's slowdown
Daveri, Francesco; Parisi, Maria Laura - 2010
of firm: high age of managers and board members is bad for innovation and productivity growth, while costs and benefits …We investigate the role of workers' and managerial experience as a determinant of firm innovation and productivity in a … innovation and productivity. The effect of managerial experience measured by age on firm performance depends instead on the type …
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Competition in the service sector and the performances of manufacturing firms : does liberalization matter?
Forlani, Emanuele - 2010
Services form an increasing proportion of the inputs used in manufacturing. We explore empirically whether competition in the service sector affects downstream manufacturing firms' efficiency, via the inputs used. Using French micro-data for services, we calculate proxies for competition in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003937587
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Manufacturers and retailers in the global economy
Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - 2011
We develop a general-equilibrium model to capture key features of the retailing and of the manufacturing industry in order to understand how these two industries interact and how labor is allocated between them. We show that the observed shift in employment from manufacturing to retailing, the...
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Price discrimination in input markets : quantity discounts and private information
Herweg, Fabian; Müller, Daniel - 2013
We consider a monopolistic supplierś optimal choice of wholesale tariffs when downstream firms are privately informed about their retail costs. Under discriminatory pricing, downstream firms that differ in their ex ante distribution of retail costs are offered different tariffs. Under uniform...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009733012
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Do managers with limited liability take more risky decisions? : an information acquisition model
Malcomson, James M. - 2010
Risk-neutral individuals take more risky decisions when they have limited liability. Risk-neutral managers may not when … actions. The resulting decisions may be less, rather than more, risky. Making a decision after acquiring information provides … return. Further results on the form of contracts are also derived. -- managers ; risky decisions ; limited liability …
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Hierarchical structure in Brazilian industrial firms : an econometric study
Façanha, Luis Otávio (contributor);  … - 2007
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Employee spinouts, social networks, and family firms
Rauch, James E. - 2013
"spinouts": managers of input divisions can start their own firms, making customized inputs formerly provided internally subject … lead to inefficiently low entry. Vertically integrated firms can fight back by hiring managers for their input divisions …
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Rukovoditeli rossijskich predprijatij : perechod k rynočnoj ėkonomike
Lapina, Natalʹja Jurʹevna - In: Mirovaja ėkonomika i meždunarodnye otnošenija : MĖMO (1994), pp. 18-29
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Trust, competition and innovation : theory and evidence from German car manufacturers
Calzolari, Giacomo; Felli, Leonardo; Koenen, Johannes; … - 2015
We develop a simple theoretical model of a long term buyer-supplier relationship with non-contractible buyer specific R&D investment, and derive predictions on the effects of trust and competition on suppliers' investment and buyers' procurement strategies. We address these issues empirically...
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Business strategy and firm reorganization under changing market conditions
Ghosal, Vivek - 2009
innovative activity in traditional industries such as pulp and paper. -- incremental innovation, ICT investments, modernization …
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