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Necessity entrepreneurship and competitive strategy

Block, Jörn; Kohn, Karsten; Miller, Danny; Ullrich, Katrin - 2014

Many start-ups chose to compete with incumbent firms using one of two generic strategies: cost leadership or differentiation. Our study demonstrates how this choice depends on whether the startup was founded out of necessity. Our results, based on a representative data set of 4,568 German...

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Competitive strategy, performance appraisal and firm results

Bayo-Moriones, Alberto; Galdón-Sánchez, José Enrique; … - 2016

In this study, we address the relationship between performance appraisal and competitive strategy, as well as the impact of this relationship on firm performance. The results indicate that the adoption of developmental performance appraisal and the use of administrative performance appraisal are...

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Brilliant technologies and brave entrepreneurs : a new narrative for African manufacturing

Naudé, Wim - 2018

In this paper I argue that the manufacturing sector still has an important role to play in Africa's development. Despite failing to industrialize in the past, there may be a new window of opportunity. This is due to the convergence of what has been called "brilliant" new technologies associated...

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Human capital externalities with monopsonistic competition

Kaas, Leo (contributor) - 2008

This paper provides a novel microeconomic foundation for pecuniary human capital externalities in a labor market model of monopsonistic competition. Multiple equilibria arise because of a strategic complementarity in investment decisions. -- Externalities ; human capital ; multiple equilibria

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Technical change and total factor productivity growth for Chinese provinces : a panel data analysis

Shiu, Alice (contributor); Heshmati, Almas (contributor) - 2006

compared with the western region. Foreign direct investment (FDI) and information and communication technology (ICT) investment …

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Technological capabilities and patterns of cooperation of UK firms : a regional investigation

Iammarino, Simona; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco; … - 2009

highlighted within the UK Government's framework for Science & Technology. -- Cooperation for innovation ; technological …

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Employment and exchange rates : the role of openness and technology

Alexandre, Fernando; Bação, Pedro; Cerejeira, João; … - 2009

and with the technology level. This paper contributes by bringing together these two views, both theoretically and … empirically. We show that both the degree of openness and the technology level mediate the impact of exchange rate movements on … labour market developments. According to our estimations, whereas employment in high-technology sectors seems to be …

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Technology and the demand for skill : an analysis of within and between firm differences

Abowd, John M.; Haltiwanger, John C.; Lane, Julia; … - 2007

We estimate the effects of technology investments on the demand for skilled workers using longitudinally integrated … unobservable components within each business for each year from 1992 to 1997. We measure technology using variables from the Annual … between advanced technology and skill in a cross-sectional analysis of businesses in both sectors. The more comprehensive …

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Technical change and total factor productivity growth : the case of Chinese provinces

Heshmati, Almas; Kumbhakar, Subal - 2010

trend (purely external non-economic) as well as other exogenous (external economic) factors (technology shifters). We define … technology index based on the external economic factors which are indicators of ‘technology’. Thus our definition of production … function is amended to accommodate several technology shifters which are not separable from the traditional inputs. That is …

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Manufacturing employment and exchange rates in the Portuguese economy : the role of openness, technology and labour market rigidity

Alexandre, Fernando; Bação, Pedro; Cerejeira, João; … - 2010

In this paper, we explore empirically the role of openness, technology and labour market rigidity in the determination … and that the labour market in high technology sectors is more flexible than in low technology sectors. We use this index … rigidity ; technology …

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