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Intangible investment and technical efficiency: The case of software-intensive manufacturing firms in Turkey
Findik, Derya; Tansel, Aysıt - 2015
This chapter analyzes the effect of intangible investment on firm efficiency with an emphasis on its software component. Stochastic production frontier approach is used to simultaneously estimate the production function and the determinants of technical efficiency in the software intensive...
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The cluster-based development strategy in Kazakhstan's agro-food sector: A critical assessment from an Austrian perspective
Wandel, Jürgen - 2010
Austrian Market Process Theory. It is argued that already the theoretical foundations of the cluster concept suffer from severe … driving force. Moreover, it ignores the knowledge requirements and limitations in a modern market economy for any outside … another form of social engineering and picking winners. In the light of the Austrian understanding of the market system as an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300387
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Agroholdings and clusters in Kazakhstan's agro-food sector
Wandel, Jürgen - 2009
clusters, hitherto mostly unknown in the agro-food sectors of established market economies. It is shown that agroholdings are … small scale (individual) farm structure has emerged. Parallel to this market-driven development, the Kazakhstani government …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331247
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Transfer pricing for coordination and profit determination :an analysis of alternative schemes
Martini, Jan Thomas - Universität <Bielefeld> / Lehrstuhl für Controlling … - 2005
This paper examines coordination and profit allocation in a profit-center organization using a single transfer price. The model includes compensations, taxes, and minority interests of two divisions deciding on capacity and sales.The analysis covers arm's length transfer prices which are either...
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Motives for Innovation Co-operation –Evidence from theCanadian Survey of Innovation
Schmidt Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung <Mannheim>
In this paper we analyse the decision of firms in the Canadian manufacturing sectorto co-operate on innovation projects. Our focus is on the motives behind this decisionand the firm characteristics, both general and with respect to innovation activities,which influence the motives for innovation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005858911
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Delegation, promotion, and manager selection
Häusinger, Benjamin - 2019
Promotions serve two purposes. They ought to provide incentives for employees and to select the best employee for a management position. However, if non-contractible managerial decision rights give rise to private benefits and preference misalignment between managers and the firm, these two...
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Make-or-Buy Decisions in Patent Related Services
Wagner, Stefan - 2006
Among the most prominent theoretical frameworks dealing with the economic underlyings of firms’ make-or-buy decisions are Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) and the Resourced Based View (RBV). Relying on panel data covering 107 European firms over eight years I test predictions from both TCE and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427733
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Compensation and Incentives in Medical Networks with Gate-keeping and Case Management
Schumacher, Petra - 2008
New approaches in health care, such as e.g. Integrated Delivery Systems, affect the role and tasks of medical suppliers. More and more, medical suppliers are incorporated into the process of guiding patients to medical specialists and hospitals and thus managing the course of disease. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427764
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Teamwork as a Self-Disciplining Device
Fahn, Matthias; Hakenes, Hendrik - 2017
We show that team formation can serve as an implicit commitment device to overcome problems of self-control. If individuals have present-biased preferences, effort that is costly today but rewarded at some later point in time is too low from the perspective of an individual\'s long-run self. If...
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Efficient and Nearly Efficient Partnerships
Legros, Patrick; Matthews, Steven A. - 1992
This paper shows in two ways that the degree to which free-riding diminishes the performance of deterministic partnerships may be less than has been generally thought. First, a necessary and sufficient condition is provided for a partnership to sustain full efficiency. It implies that many...
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