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The timely and continuing adaptation of companies to the rapid changes in the market is a prerequisite to survival and growth. Simultaneously, the smooth adaptation of employees to changes contributes not only to the improved running of organizations but also to their personal improvement and...
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The Russian labor market was characterized with three main features: a weak sensitivity of employment levels to changing conditions, a high variability of wage, large inter-firm flows of labor resources. This paper recommends a model of a collective firm explaining these phenomena. The main...
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, Khenkin, 1988. It is shown that, as a result of interaction between innovation and imitation, the shape of the efficiency …
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This paper studies the evolution of the distribution of firms in the ferrous metals industry by efficiency levels. The proposed model takes into account interaction of processes of creation and adoption of technologies and depreciation of assets. It is shown that the model approximates real data...
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A simple model of imitation and innovation is developed to explain a complicated picture of relative productivity … imitation, only innovation or a mixed policy prevails. We demonstrate how one can find the stationary states and check their … stability for a broad class of imitation-innovation cost functions. Using World Bank statistical data for the period of 1980 …
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A simple model of technological imitation and innovation is developed to explain club convergence in the evolution of … includes only innovation-imitation tradeoff, and the second one takes into account traditional investment decisions as well. It … versions, there are three types of stable steady-state regimes, with only imitation, only innovation or a mixed policy. Using …
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We propose a difference-differential equation that reflects interactions between innovation and imitation processes to …
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technological development. For this reason we rely on the final results of a research project on women in innovation, technology and …
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The concepts of absorptive capacity and innovative capability have been introduced to describe abilities of a country to imitate and, accordingly, to create more advanced technologies. In this paper we suggest new indicators of these two abilities. To calculate them, we develop an endogenous...
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In this paper we consider the classical newsvendor model with profit maximization. When demand is fully observed in each period and follows either the Rayleigh or the exponential distribution, appropriate estimators for the optimal order quantity and the maximum expected profit are established...
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