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Global Sourcing of Complex Production Processes
Schwarz, Christian - 2010
We develop a theory of a firm in an environment with incomplete contracts. The firm's headquarter decides on the complexity, the organization, and the global scale of its production process. Specifically, it decides: i) on the mass of symmetric intermediate inputs that are part of the value...
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SME Policy and Firms’ Productivity in Latin America
Ibarraran, Pablo - 2009
Very little is known about the effectiveness of SME policies, and a careful look at the structure, mechanisms and … American and Caribbean countries to analyze the magnitude and determinants of the productivity gap between large and SME firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155323
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The Impact of Covid-19 on Small Business Owners : The First Three Months after Social-Distancing Restrictions
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020
Social distancing restrictions and health- and economic-driven demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses and entrepreneurial ventures, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the...
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What Role Did Management Practices Play in SME Growth Post-Recession?
Bryson, Alex - 2016
, little is known about the role played by management practices in SME growth since recession. We contribute to the literature … on SME growth by analysing longitudinal administrative data on firms' employment and turnover, taken from the UK … turnover, and a decline in closure probabilities, over the period 2011-2014. The findings suggest SME investment in off …
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The Impact of Management Practices on SME Performance
Forth, John - 2018
We examine the impact of management practices on firm performance among SMEs in Britain over the period 2011-2014, using a unique dataset which links survey data on management practices with firm performance data from the UK's official business register. We find that SMEs are less likely to use...
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Innovative Firms or Innovative Owners? Determinants of Innovation in Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises
de Mel, Suresh - 2015
Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have restricted standard analysis of the determinants of innovation...
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Infrastructure Grants and the Performance of Microenterprises
Chaurey, Ritam - 2018
We evaluate the impact of a place-based infrastructure development scheme directed towards India's most "backward" districts, on the performance of microenterprises. "Backward" districts were selected based on a transparent score-based assignment mechanism. Using a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity...
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Institutions and Economic Performance : What Can Be Explained?
Commander, Simon John - 2010
Institutions are now widely believed to be important in explaining performance. In this paper, we analyze whether commonly used measures of institutions have any significant, measurable impact on performance, whether of countries or firms. We look at three 'levels' of institutions and associated...
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International Trade and Firm Performance : A Survey of Empirical Studies Since 2006
Wagner, Joachim - 2011
The literature on international trade and firm performance grows exponentially. This paper attempts to summarize what we learn from this literature to guide both future empirical and theoretical work in this area, and public debates and policy makers, in an evidence-based way. The focus is on...
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Investment Climate and Employment Growth : The Impact of Access to Finance, Corruption and Regulations Across Firms
Aterido, Reyes; Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Pages, Carmen - 2021
Using firm level data on 70,000 enterprises in 107 countries, this paper finds important effects of access to finance, business regulations, corruption, and to a lesser extent, infrastructure bottlenecks in explaining patterns of job creation at the firm level. The paper focuses on how the...
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