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Gómez, María Celeste; Virgillito, Maria Enrica - 2022

Wages and productivity represent two of the most relevant variables to consider in economic development. Given the low productivity levels that emerging countries reveal, the accumulation of productive capabilities and a narrower dispersion across sectors would enable emerging countries to...

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Control in the era of surveillance capitalism : an empirical investigation of Italian Industry 4.0 factories

Moro, Angelo; Rinaldini, Matteo; Staccioli, Jacopo; … - 2019

We explore the extent to which the current technological trend, dubbed Industry 4.0, might increase forms of control inside organisations, by focussing on pivotal firms in the so-called Italian Motor Valley currently embracing its adoption. We find that Industry 4.0 technologies open up great...

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Firm size, managerial practices and innovativeness : some evidence from Finnish manufacturing

Koski, Heli; Marengo, Luigi; Mäkinen, Iiro - 2009

appear to be vast differences in the organizational practices leading to more innovation both between small and large firms …, and between the firms that operate in high- and low-tech industries. While innovation in small firms benefits from the … incentive for innovation among the sampled companies seems to be the ownership of a firm’s stocks by employees and/or managers …

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Innovation strategies and firm growth

Bianchini, Stefano; Pellegrino, Gabriele; Tamagni, Federico - 2016

In this work, we explore the relations between sales growth and a set of innovation indicators that capture the … different sources, modes and results of the innovative activity undertaken within firms. We exploit a rich panel on innovation …-2011. Standard GMM-panel estimates of the average effect of innovation activities reveal significant and positive effect for internal …

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Technology and costs in international competitiveness : from countries and sectors to firms

Dosi, Giovanni; Grazzi, Marco; Moschella, Daniele - 2014

This paper examines the determinants of international competitiveness at the level of sectors and firms. First, we address the relation between cost-related and technological competition in a sample of fifteen OECD countries. Results suggest that the countries' sectoral market shares are indeed...

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Institutional change and productivity growth in China's manufacturing 1998 - 2007 : the microeconomics of creative restructuring

Dosi, Giovanni; Lei, Jiasu; Yu, Xiaodan - 2013

This paper investigates firm-level dynamics of labour productivity in China's manufacturing sector over the 1998-2007. Underlying the aggregate evidence of dramatic growth of labour productivity, one observes a large, even if shrinking, intra-sectoral heterogeneity. A major process of both...

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The causal effects of R&D grants: evidence from a regression discontinuity

Santoleri, Pietro; Mina, Andrea; Di Minin, Alberto; … - 2020

investment, notably in intangibles, and innovation outcomes as measured by cite-weighted patents; they trigger faster growth in …

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Technology, profits and wages

Coveri, Andrea; Pianta, Mario - 2019

, productivity growth and capital-labour conflict, with profits driven by product innovation and offshoring, and wages rising faster …

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Trade and profitability: is there an export premium? : evidence from Italian manufacturing firms

Grazzi, Marco - 2009

Using firm level data this study investigates the relation between export activity and firm’s profitability. The paper shows that, contrary to other performance indicators such as productivity, exporting activity is not systematically associated to higher firm’s profitability. This is shown...

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Characterizing the production process : a disaggregated analysis of Italian manufacturing firms

Bottazzi, Giulio (contributor); Grazzi, Marco (contributor); … - 2005

This paper provides a description of the production process by comparing different frameworks in which to analyze the relations between inputs and output. The analyses are performed on a representative sample of Italian manufacturing firms. We employ both parametric and non-parametric analysis....

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