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The influence of value-chain governance on innovation performance: a study of Italian suppliers
Brancati, Emanuele; Pietrobelli, Carlo; Mazzi, Caio Torres - 2021
This paper explores how value-chain governance affects the innovation performance of suppliers of intermediate products … is more conducive to innovation for suppliers, especially when these firms have medium capability levels. Conversely … intermediates and innovation performance, which indicates that technology-gap is an important mediator of learning within value …
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Outsourcing and technological change
Bartel, Ann; Lach, Saul; Sicherman, Nachum - 2009
We present a dynamic model where the probability of outsourcing production is increasing in the firm’s expectation of technological change. As the pace of innovations in production technologies increases, the less time the firm has to amortize the sunk costs associated with purchasing and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003932479
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Innovation, firm survival and productivity: the state of the art
Uğur, Mehmet; Vivarelli, Marco - 2020
innovation on firm survival and firm productivity, which constitute the two main channels through which innovation drives growth … perspectives that inform the empirical models allow for heterogeneity in the effects of R&D/innovation on firm survival and …-linearity and volatility in the gains from R&D/innovation, particularly in terms of its effects on firm survival and productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012286283
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Vertical industry relations, spillovers and productivity : evidence from Chilean plants
López, Ricardo A. (contributor); Südekum, Jens (contributor) - 2007
We use disaggregated data on Chilean plants, and the Chilean input-output table to examine the impact of agglomeration spillovers on total factor productivity (TFP). In common with previous studies, we find evidence of intra-industry spillovers, but no evidence of cross-industry spillovers in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003557351
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Why some firms export? : an empirical analysis for manufacturing firms in the MENA region
Fakih, Ali; Ghazalian, Pascal L. - 2013
the determining factors when carrying out the estimation for individual countries. -- exporting decision ; export …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009697662
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Rukovoditeli rossijskich predprijatij : perechod k rynočnoj ėkonomike
Lapina, Natalʹja Jurʹevna - In: Mirovaja ėkonomika i meždunarodnye otnošenija : MĖMO (1994), pp. 18-29
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CEO and board characteristics as determinants of private benefits of control : evidence from the Russian stock exchange
Berezinec, Irina V.; Ilina, Julja; Muravyev, Alexander - 2011
for dual class stock firms using the voting premium approach. Our empirical analysis is based on data from Russia and … benefits of control ; dual-class stock firms ; Russia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009524994
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Gross job flows in Russian industry before and after reforms : has destruction become more creative?
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2001
This paper uses 1985-1999 manufacturing census data for old Russian enterprises to calculate the magnitude and productivity effects of gross job flow rates before and after reforms. Job creation was low throughout the period in this sector, but increased slightly during the transition, while job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403410
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Stuck between surplus and shortage : demand for skills in the Russian industry
Gimpelʹson, Vladimir E. (contributor);  … - 2009
large-scale survey of Russian manufacturing firms. -- Labour shortage ; skills ; training ; transition economies ; Russia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794064
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Research funding and regional economies
Goldschlag, Nathan; Bianchini, Stefano; Lane, Julia; … - 2016
Public support of research typically relies on the notion that universities are engines of economic development, and that university research is a primary driver of high wage localized economic activity. Yet the evidence supporting that notion is based on aggregate descriptive data, rather than...
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