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Micro moments database for cross-country analysis of ICT, innovation, and economic outcomes
Bartelsman, Eric J.; Hagsten, Eva; Polder, Michael - 2017
This paper provides technical documentation to a database built up from firm-level sources titled Micro moments database(MMD) that is made available for researchers through Eurostat. The MMD is an internationally harmonized research database of statistical moments collected from linked...
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Can communication mitigate strategic delays in investment timing?
Mermer, Ayse; Onderstal, Sander; Sonnemans, Joep - 2022
experiment, while coordination failures emerge in the following periods sweeping away the beneficial effect of communication at … others creating socially suboptimal outcomes. We investigate if and how communication mitigates the strategic delay in … free-riding incentives resulting in strategic delays in investment timings. Our theoretical analysis suggests that …
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Sharing information through delegation and collaboration
Swank, Otto H.; Visser, Bauke - 2004
This article analyzes under which conditions a manager can motivate a junior worker by verbal communication, and … explains why communication is often tied up with organizational choices as job enlargement and collaboration. Our model has two …
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Tailored feedback and worker green behavior : field evidence from bus drivers
Soetevent, Adriaan; Romensen, Gert-Jan - 2017
How to engage workers in conservation efforts when the company pays the bill? In a field experiment with 409 bus drivers, we investigate the potential of targeted peer-comparison feedback and on-the-road coaching. Drivers receive individualized reports with peer-comparison messages on multiple...
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Productivity effects of an exogenous improvement in transport infrastructure : accessibility and the Great Belt Bridge
De Borger, Bruno L.; Mulalic, Ismir; Rouwendal, Jan - 2019
Most studies of the effects of transport infrastructure on the performance of individual firms have focused on marginal expansions of the rail or highway network over time. In this paper, we study the short-run effects of a large discrete shock in the quality of transport infrastructure, viz....
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Measuring productivity dispersion
Bartelsman, Eric J.; Wolf, Zoltán - 2017
Measuring the dispersion of productivity or efficiency across firms in a market or industry is rife with methodological issues. Nevertheless, the existence of considerable dispersion now is well documented and widely accepted. Less well understood are the economic features and mechanisms...
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A duration analysis of housing construction times : evidence on the role of option values, public involvement and stalled sites
Brugman, Lars; Rouwendal, Jan - 2024 - This version: January 15, 2024
This paperinvestigates the duration of housing construction projects in the Netherlands. We utilize comprehensive data from the Dutch Land Registry for the period 2013-2022 to investigate the importance of municipal land ownership, building plot price changes, construction costs, development...
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Unraveling the shift to the entrepreneurial economy
Audretsch, David B.; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2011 - Current version: April 2011
A recent literature has emerged providing compelling evidence that a major shift in the organization of the developed economies has been taking place: away from what has been characterized as the managed economy towards the entrepreneurial economy. In particular, the empirical evidence provides...
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Initial capital constraints hinder entrepreneurial venture performance
Praag, Mirjam van; Wit, Gerrit de; Bosma, Niels - 2004
This article investigates empirically whether and to what extent initial capital constraints hinder entrepreneurial performance once the venture has been started. Prior empirical research in this area could investigate this issue only indirectly by lack of data. The key contribution of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011333876
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Turbulence, flexibility and performance of the long-lived small firm
Power, Bernadette; Reid, Gavin C. - 2003
This paper focuses on a new concern in the small firm’s literature, namely what makes a small firm stay in business for a long time. It reflects a change in economic policy, away from an emphasis on volume of start-ups to an emphasis on quality of start-ups. The basic hypothesis is that...
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