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In search of creative champions in high-tech spaces : a spatial application of Strategic Performance Management
Kourtit, Karima; Nijkamp, Peter - 2013
The business performance of firms in the creative high-tech sector shows much variation. This paper examines whether … the geographical location of such business firms influences the performance of these firms. The overarching analysis … framework of this paper emerges from the recently developed Strategic Performance Management (SPM) concept for individual firms …
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High performance in complex spatial systems : a eelf-organizing mapping approach with reference to the Netherlands
Kourtit, Karima; Arribas-Bel, Daniel; Nijkamp, Peter - 2013
This paper addresses the performance of creative firms from the perspective of complex spatial systems. Based on an … topological space, the relative differences between these firms and their business performance in various regions. It turns out …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010226577
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Procurement: the transaction costs perspective in a globalising world
Butter, Frank A. G. den - 2007 - This version: 19 November 2007
Fragmentation of production into more and more complex supply chains is a prominent feature of globalisation. It implies that transaction costs as part of total costs of ownership carry a large weight in procurement decisions. An analysis of the various types of transaction costs is also...
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Turbulence, flexibility and performance of the long-lived small firm
Power, Bernadette; Reid, Gavin C. - 2003
in Scotland. New measures of flexibility and turbulence are used to explain the performance of mature small firms. These … depend on our unique body of evidence from interviews with owner managers. Performance is measured using a Likert scale over … performance. This is done in two forms. The first involves generalised least squares estimation (with heteroskedastic adjustment …
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Does losing lead to winning? : an empirical analysis for four different sports
Klein Teeselink, Bouke; Assem, Martijn J. van den; … - 2020
Berger and Pope (2011) show that being slightly behind increases the likelihood of winning in professional and collegiate basketball. We extend their analysis to large samples of Australian football, American football and rugby matches, but find little to no evidence of such an effect for these...
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The willingness to pay for quality aspects of durables : theory and application to the car market
Mulalic, Ismir; Rouwendal, Jan - 2010 - This version: December 24, 2010
Conventional hedonic analysis measures willingness to pay for attributes on the basis of marginal fixed costs. We argue that in many cases variable costs are also affected by these attributes and that this should be taken into account. We develop a simple model to show that the marginal...
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Does accessibility to higher education matter? : choice behavior of high school graduates in the Netherlands
Sá, Carla; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; Rietveld, Piet - 2004
This paper identifies pivotal factors behind individual decision-making in the transition from high school to post-secondary education in the Netherlands. We apply a multinomial logit framework to individual data on post-secondary education choices. Specifically, our modeling approach...
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Multilevel approaches and the firm-agglomeration ambiguity in economic growth studies
Oort, Frank van; Burger, Martijn J.; Knoben, Joris; … - 2012
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Regional inequality and human capital quality : the impact of technology on the arrival rate of employment offers
Alexiadis, Stilianos; Eleftheriou, Konstantinos; … - 2013
This paper aims to provide a conceptual and operational context for analysing regional inequalities. It does so by utilizing a 'search & matching' framework. The model, developed in this paper, maps the way in which individuals are distributed according to: 1) the abilities of individuals to...
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Do income disparities dissipate across the US states? : experimenting with a Vector Error Correction Model
Alexiadis, Stilianos; Eleftheriou, Konstantinos; … - 2013
This paper examines the long-run trends in per-capita income across the US states (1929-2005). Our analysis advocates and implements a Vector Error Correction Model (VECM), in order to investigate whether disparities in per-capita income embody a stable long-run relation. The empirical...
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