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The Determinants of Corporate Growth
Rosique, Francisco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Corporate Growth is a concept that has been widely treated in a specific way or as part of strategy theories, in definition and in econometric models and has also been studied in many different aspects and approaches. The author describes in depth the main variables affecting corporate growth...
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Productivity linkages between services and manufacturing: Firm-level evidence from developing countries
Shepherd, Ben - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
associated with manufacturing productivity. Moreover, the link between productivity in services and manufacturing is particularly … strong for manufacturing firms that are more intensive in their use of services inputs. At the mean level of services input … use in the dataset, a 10% improvement in services productivity is associated with a 0.6% improvement in manufacturing …
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Measuring the Magnitude of Significant Market Power in the Manufacturing and Services Industries: A Cross Country Approach
Polemis, Michael; Fotis, Panagiotis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
This paper provides estimates of price-marginal cost ratios for manufacturing and services sectors in the Eurozone, the … extended by Roeger (1995) on the EU KLEMS March 2011 database. The major stylized facts that are emerged from the empirical …
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Extended Measures of Investment and Saving
Depta, Peter; Ravalli, Frank; Harding, Don - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994
National accountants treat as consumption all expenditure incurred in purchasing consumer durables and in forming intangible assets such as knowledge, education and good health. The case is made in this paper that the national accounts measures of saving and investment understate both the extent...
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Patterns of technological progress and corporate innovation
Waśniewski, Krzysztof - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The bulk of the global innovative effort takes place in 5 countries: USA, Japan and China as leaders, with France and United Kingdom as immediate followers, which all display, on the long run, a negative marginal value added on innovation. The present paper attempts to answer the following...
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The Growth of Business Firms: Theoretical Framework and Empirical Evidence
Fu, Dongfeng; Pammolli, Fabio; Buldyrev, Sergey V.; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
We introduce a model of proportional growth to explain the distribution of business firm growth rates. The model predicts that it is exponential in the central part and depicts an asymptotic power-law behavior in the tails with an exponent ζ = 3. Because of data limitations, previous studies in...
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A Generalized Preferential Attachment Model for Business Firms Growth Rates: II. Mathematical Treatment
Buldyrev, Sergey V.; Pammolli, Fabio; Riccaboni, Massimo; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
We present a preferential attachment growth model to obtain the distribution P(K) of number of units K in the classes which may represent business firms or other socio-economic entities. We found that P(K) is described in its central part by a power law with an exponent φ = 2+b/(1−b) which...
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The great dissolution: organization capital and diverging volatility puzzle
Che, Natasha Xingyuan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Most traditional explanations for the decreasing aggregate output volatility - so-called "Great Moderation" - fail to accommodate, or even directly contradict, another aspect of empirical data: the average sales volatility for publicly-traded US firms has been increasing during the same period....
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The Quality of Outsourced Logistics Service: A Collectivist Culture Perspective
Rahmat, Abdul Khabir; Faisol, Nasruddin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The purpose of the study is to explore on the elements of outsourced logistics service quality and how the users’ satisfaction was formed within the Malaysian culture context. This qualitative study was based on five semi-structured interviews which were carried out with the executive officers...
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Recent trend of village and small enterprise sector: exploring and exploiting its opportunities in the North Eastern Region of India touching upon its profile and barriers
Mishra, SK - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
presently strewn with the immense possibilities of manufacturing and service activities. Mahatma Gandhi had envisioned this long …
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