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Protection and international sourcing
Ornelas, Emanuel (contributor); Turner, John L. (contributor) - 2008
We study the impact of import protection on relationship-specific investments, organizational choice and welfare. We show that a tariff on intermediate inputs can improve social welfare through mitigating hold-up problems. It does so if it discriminates in favor of the investing party, thereby...
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Theories of heterogeneous firms and trade
Redding, Stephen - 2010
"This paper reviews the recent theoretical literature on heterogeneous firms and trade, which emphasizes firm selection into international markets and reallocations of resources across firms. We discuss the empirical challenges that motivated this research and its relationship to traditional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003990942
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Business groups as knowledge-based hierarchies of firms
Altomonte, Carlo; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Rungi, Armando - 2021
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New approaches to measuring management and firm organization
Bloom, Nicholas; Van Reenen, John - 2010
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Recent advances in the empirics of organizational economics
Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - 2010
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Voluntary work effort and labor contracts
Ilan, Benjamin Y. - 1985
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Technology, information and the decentralization of the firm
Acemoglu, Daron; Aghion, Philippe; Lelarge, Claire; Van … - 2006
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The distinct effects of information technology and communication technology on firm organization
Bloom, Nicholas; Garicano, Luis; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2009
study the impact of ICT on worker autonomy, plant manager autonomy and spans of control. Consistently with the theory we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003868135
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The organization of firms across countries
Bloom, Nicholas (contributor); Sadun, Raffaella (contributor) - 2009
We argue that social capital as proxied by regional trust and the Rule of Law can improve aggregate productivity through facilitating greater firm decentralization. We collect original data on the decentralization of investment, hiring, production and sales decisions from Corporate Head Quarters...
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Anatomy of a paradox : management practices, organisational structure and energy efficiency
Martin, Ralf; Muûls, Mirabelle; De Preux, Laure B.; … - 2010
official business microdata. We find that ‘climate friendly’ management practices are associated with lower energy intensity … variation in management practices across firms can be explained in part by organizational structure. Firms are more likely to … adopt climate friendly management practices if climate change issues are managed by the environmental or energy manager, and …
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