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This study investigates induced productivity effects of firms introducing new environmental technologies. The … literature on within-firm organisational change and productivity suggests that firms can achieve higher productivity gains from … associated with lower productivity, the simultaneous implementation of green technologies and organisational innovations is not. …
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organizational decision structure and find for instance that firms with a higher overall productivity are more likely to choose a …
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This paper studies the relationship between transparency on the consumer side and productivity of firms. We show that … more transparent markets are characterized by higher average productivity as firms with low productivity abstain from … entering these markets. -- Market Transparency ; Firm Productivity ; Salop Model ; Heterogeneous Firms …
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estimation of production functions together with information on prices and quantities to estimate physical productivity, markups …
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functions together with detailed product-level information on prices and quantities to estimate physical productivity, markups … based on commonly used measures of revenue productivity. In contrast, we measure sizable efficiency gains using measures … that are not affected by pricing heterogeneity, such as marginal costs and physical productivity. Exploiting exogenous …
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This article analyzes the impact of institutional investors on firm productivity duringthe financial crisis 2008 … constrained indicating that foreign insti-tutional ownership prevents the known productivity slowdown during the financial …
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Headquarters and their specialized component suppliers have a vital interest in establishing long-term collaborations. When formal contracts are not enforceable, such efficiency-enhancing cooperations can be established via informal agreements, but relational contracts have been largely ignored...
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We consider a property rights model of a firm with two heterogeneous suppliers. The headquarters determine the firm's organizational structure, and we analyze which sourcing mode (outsourcing or vertical integration) is chosen for which of the asymmetric inputs. If suppliers' investment choices...
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We develop a theory of a firm in an incomplete contracts environment which decides on the complexity, the organization, and the global scale of its production process. Specifically, the firm decides i) how many intermediate inputs are simultaneously combined to a final product, ii) if the...
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In this paper, we consider a dynamic search-and-matching problem of a firm with its intermediate input supplier. In our model, a headquarter currently matched with a supplier, has an interest to find and collaborate with a more efficient partner. However, supplier switching through search and...
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