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We demonstrate the possibility of shake-out of firms and emergence of inter-firmheterogeneity along the (socially optimal) dynamic equilibrium path of a competitive industry with freeentry and exit, even when there is no uncertainty and all firms are ex ante identical with perfectforesight....
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In this paper we provide an analysis of the process of creative destruction across 24 countries and 2-digit industries … markets, the failure of many newcomers and the expansion of successful ones. This process of creative destruction affects … impressive process of creative destruction and, amongst them, those that have progressed the most towards a market economy show …
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Which signals are important in gaining attention in science? For a group of 1,371 scientific articles published in 17 demography journals in the years 1990-1992 we track their influence and discern which signals are important in receiving citations. Three types of signals are examined: the...
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model of expanding product varieties. This contrasts with the existingliterature, which ignores maintenance costs and uses …
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Innovative entrepreneurship is considered an important pillar for economic development and has sparked a lively discussion in academia and practice alike. Oftentimes, however, the debate is not sufficiently grounded on solid empirical evidence. The academic literature is growing but very...
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One of the most powerful internet communication channels is email. As employees and their clients communicate primarily via email, much crucial business data is conveyed via email content. Where businesses are understandably concerned, they need a sophisticated workflow management system to...
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Email is one of the most powerful tools for communication. Many businesses use email as the main channel for communication, so it is possible that substantial data are included in email content. In order to help businesses grow faster, a workflow management system may be required. The data...
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This paper documents that a process of industrial restructuring has been transforming the developed economies, where … about the cost of resisting this restructuring process. The goal of this paper is to identifywhether there is a cost …, measured in terms of forgone growth, of an impeded restructuring process. The cost is measured by linking growth rates of …
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Several surveys on intra-industry dynamics have recently reached the conclusion from a large body of evidence that Gibrat's Law does not hold, i.e., the main finding is that firm growth decreases with firm size. However, almost all of these studies have been based on manufacturing. In this paper...
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This paper examines how a radical technological innovation affects alliance formation of firms and subsequent network structures. We use longitudinal data of interfirm R&D collaborations in the biopharmaceutical industry in which a new technological regime is established. Our findings suggest...
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