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Innovative Activity of Small Tourist Enterprises – Cooperation with Local Institutional Partners
Najda-Janoszka, Marta - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
According to the open innovation model an effective strategy for increasing innovation and competitiveness of the … enterprises. Given the paucity of empirical evidence on effectiveness of innovation policy interventions at the regional level …, this article presents the empirical findings regarding cooperation in innovation between tourist enterprises and local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261036
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Fostering Innovation in Russian Companies in the Post-Crisis Period : Opportunities and Constraints
Simachev, Yuri - 2013
In recent years the Russian innovation policy has made a significant progress that manifests in developing its ‘tool … kit', increasing resource base, etc. However it has not yet succeeded in improving business innovation activities that … Russian industrial enterprises the authors analyze key features of innovation in Russian companies under economic recovery, as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083716
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Samorządowa i obywatelska współpraca transgranicznej w województwie podlaskim
Klimczuk, Andrzej; Poleszczuk, Jan; Sztop-Rutkowska, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Studies presented in this publication were aimed at provide data necessary for the conducting of local government and citizenship dimension of the enlarged Polish foreign policy in Podlaskie region. The main objective was to investigate the diagnosis, as the local government units,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258643
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Theoretical Perspective of Local Government - Literature Review
Haqu, Adnan ul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
“This research paper discusses the basic fundamentals of local government in theoretical perspective. The aim of this paper is to critically evaluate the conceptual framework of local government with its significance in the modern era. Various approaches of local government are discussed in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260087
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The performance of local government in the execution of public works
Guccio, Calogero; Pignataro, Giacomo; Rizzo, Ilde - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper aims at analysing the procurement of public works paying attention to the level of government involved. Such an issue has not received so far attention in the literature on fiscal federalism nor in the public works procurement literature. We focus the attention upon the execution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040706
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Federal, State, and Local Governments: Evaluating their Separate Roles in US Growth
Higgins, Matthew; Young, Andrew; Levy, Daniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
We use new US county level data (3,058 observations) from 1970 to 1998 to explore the relationship between economic growth and the size of government at three levels: federal, state and local. Using 3SLS-IV estimation we find that the size of federal, state and local government all either...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836925
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Local public procurement: how to deal with a creative bidder? A case study from the Netherlands
Hoek, M. Peter van der - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper presents an analysis of the procurement of transportation services for the disabled by the town of Ridderkerk. The method used consisted of a study of the town’s files and interviews with 11 persons involved. The tender specifications were peculiar in that they required bidders to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008490068
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Federal, State, and Local Governments: Evaluating their Separate Roles in US Growth
Higgins, Matthew; Young, Andrew; Levy, Daniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We use US county level data (3,058 observations) from 1970 to 1998 to explore the relationship between economic growth and the extent of government employment at three levels: federal, state and local. We find that increases in federal, state and local government employments are all negatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616935
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Could you hand me the efficiency section, please? Newspaper circulation and local government efficiency in Norway
Bruns, Christian; Himmler, Oliver - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Whenever citizens want their elected officials to employ funds efficiently, they are in need of information in order to establish accountability. We develop an agency model with imperfect monitoring where newspapers provide voters with this information. The model predicts that an informed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622116
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Public policy, trust and growth: disclosure of government information in Japan.
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Since the end of the 1990s, local governments in Japan have enacted Information Disclosure Ordinances, which require the disclosure of official government information. This paper uses Japanese prefecture-level data for the period 1998–2004 to examine how this enactment affected economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008777073