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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 …

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Management practices and productivity in Germany

Broszeit, Sandra; Fritsch, Ursula; Görg, Holger; … - 2016

Based on a novel dataset, the "German Management and Organizational Practices" (GMOP) Survey, we calculate establishment specific management scores following Bloom and van Reenen as indicators of management quality. We find substantial heterogeneity in management practices across establishments...

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Employer cooperation, productivity, and wages : new evidence from inter-firm formal network agreements

Devicienti, Francesco; Grinza, Elena; Manello, Alessandro; … - 2022

Using uniquely rich administrative matched employer-employee data, we investigate the impact of formal network agreements (FNAs) among firms under two perspectives. First, we assess the impact of joining a FNA on several indicators of firm performance, and total factor productivity. Second, we...

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The gender composition of corporate boards and firm performance : evidence from Russia

Garanina, Tatiana; Muravyev, Alexander - 2019

This paper studies economic effects of the gender composition of corporate boards, employing a new and unique longitudinal dataset of virtually all Russian companies whose shares were traded on the national stock market between 1998 and 2014. Using multiple identification approaches, alternative...

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Regulation and firm value : curious case of transparency and disclosure laws in Russia

Banerjee, Suman; Masulis, Ronald W.; Pal, Sarmistha - 2016

We provide novel evidence on the effectiveness of mandated changes in Russian transparency and disclosure (henceforth T&D) rules in boosting shareholder welfare. We focus on the staggered implementation of these T&D reforms initiated in 2002 and implemented during 2003-07. Using difference in...

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Intangible investment and technical efficiency : the case of software-intensive manufacturing firms in Turkey

Findik, Derya; Tansel, Aysıt - 2015

This chapter analyzes the effect of intangible investment on firm efficiency with an emphasis on its software component … differentials in their firm efficiency. The results show that the effect of software investment on firm efficiency is larger in high … technology firms, the effect of the software investment is smaller than the effect of research and development personnel …

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How ICT investment and energy use influence the productivity of Korean industries

Khayyat, Nabaz T.; Lee, Jongsu; Heshmati, Almas - 2014

investment in information and communication technology (ICT) and energy use, influence productivity levels. A dynamic factor … the allocation of public investment and support is limited. The results presented herein show that ICT/non-ICT capital … investment are substitutes for labor and energy use. We also find a high output growth rate in the sampled sectors, and …

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Spillovers from foreign firms through worker mobility : an empirical investigation

Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - 2002

While there has been a large empirical literature on productivity spillovers from foreign to domestic firms this literature treats the channels through which these spillover effects work as a black box. This paper attempts to fill this gap in the literature. Our results suggest that firms which...

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Working conditions and factory survival : evidence from better factories Cambodia

Robertson, Raymond; Brown, Drusilla K.; Dehejia, Rajeev H. - 2016

A large and growing literature has identified several conditions, including exporting, that contribute to plant survival. A prevailing sentiment suggests that anti-sweatshop activity against plants in developing countries adds the risk of making survival more difficult by imposing external...

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What drives differences in management?

Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; … - 2017

Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within the same firm. This management variation accounts for...

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