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ICT and occupation-based measures of organisational change: Firm and employee outcomes
Böckerman, Petri; Kauhanen, Antti; Maliranta, Mika - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
To examine the productivity, employment and wage effects of ICT, we apply novel occupationbased measures of … changes. Our results support the view that organisational change complements ICT investments in a productivity …-enhancing manner. In particular, the ICT-driven productivity gains are associated with the destruction of routine and noninteractive …
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Trading firms in the Spanish services sector
Minondo, Asier - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
sector, trading firms in the service sector exhibit premia relative to non-traders with respect to size, labor productivity … find that the initiation of trade with foreign nations by trading firms is followed by improvements in the productivity of …
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The geographical restructuring of the European automobile industry in the 2000s
Frigant, Vincent; Miollan, Stéphane - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The paper seeks to provide a quantitative and macroeconomic picture of the new geography of the automotive industry in Europe. Since ten new members joined the European Union in 2004, automakers and suppliers have changed their location strategies and now view the whole of Europe as a single...
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The nature of economic development zones in China:an empirical study based on data from the Yangtze River Delta
Zheng, Jianghuai; Gao, Yanyan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Development zones, born in the course of China’s economic transition, are the carriers of both the favorable institutions and the foreign advanced technology. They are now at the stage of transferring from the concentration of firms to being industrial clusters. Based on data of firms in...
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Impact of industrial linkages on firm performance in development zones
Hu, Zhining; Zheng, Jianghuai; Wang, Jialing - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This article investigates the effect of industrial linkages on firm performance in Chinese development zones, using Jiangsu Province as a case study. An ordered response model based on the dependent variable being ordinal was developed. The empirical results reveal an insignificant relationship...
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Strategies of Italian firms in Romania. Evidence from selected case studies
Tattara, Giuseppe; Constantin, Florentina; De Giusti, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The aim of this paper is to analyze the internationalization of Italian firms in Romania, operating in the sectors of footwear, furniture and industrial refrigeration. After describing and quantifying the internationalization process between Veneto and Romania, we discuss for each of the...
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Dalla crisi allo sviluppo: quali strategie per le PMI?
Birolo, Adriano - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In this short essay the contributions discussed at the Conference “From the crisis to the growth. Policies to sustain the SM firms”, taken place in June 2009 at the University of Padova, have been collected. In the contributions presented, moving from different points of view, the authors...
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Logistics Infrastructure and the International Location of Fragmented Production
Blyde, Juan; Molina, Danielken - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Casual evidence suggests that multinational companies increasingly look for places with adequate transport and logistics infrastructure to locate affiliates that participate in cross-border production sharing. Yet, there are no systematic empirical analyses examining how logistics infrastructure...
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Jurnalistii si factorul politic in anul 2004
Branea, Silvia; Marinescu, Valentina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This study attempts to identify some characteristics of the relationship between journalists and politicians. The methodology of the research is based on the analysis of responses to interviews in depth applied to a sample of 50 print and audiovisual journalists from Bucharest, Suceava, Pitesti,...
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Can the periphery achieve core? The case of the automobile components industry in Spain
Lampón, Jesús F.; Lago-Peñas, Santiago; Cabanelas, Pablo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The paper analyses changes experienced by Spain, as a European Peripheral region, in the spatial concentration of value-added and high-skill activities, and generation of technology in the automobile components industry. The analysis of plants set up (investments) and relocated (divestments) by...
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