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Innovation and Productivity in Smes : Empirical Evidence for Italy
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2010
on Italian SMEs from the quot;Survey on Manufacturing Firmsquot; conducted by Mediocredito-Capitalia covering the period …Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not …, especially process innovation. Among SMEs, larger and older firms seem to be less productive …
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Covid-19 and SME Failures
Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; … - 2021
We estimate the impact of COVID-19 on business failures for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) using firm …-level data in seventeen countries. Absent government support, the failure rate of SMEs would have increased by 9.1 percentage …
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The Impact of Covid-19 on Small Business Owners : The First Three Months after Social-Distancing Restrictions
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020
Social distancing restrictions and health- and economic-driven demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses and entrepreneurial ventures, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the...
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Small Business Survival Capabilities and Policy Effectiveness : Evidence from Oakland
Bartlett, Robert P. - 2020
Using unique City of Oakland data during COVID-19, we document that small business survival capabilities vary by firm size as a function of revenue resiliency, labor flexibility, and committed costs. Nonemployer businesses rely on low cost structures to survive 73% declines in own-store foot...
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Interfirm Relationships and Business Performance
Cai, Jing - 2017
We organized business associations for the owner-managers of randomly selected young Chinese firms to study the effect of business networks on firm performance. We randomized 2,800 firms into small groups whose managers held monthly meetings for one year, and into a “no- meetings” control...
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The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Processes and Performance
Eccles, Robert G. - 2012
We investigate the effect of corporate sustainability on organizational processes and performance. Using a matched sample of 180 US companies, we find that corporations that voluntarily adopted sustainability policies by 1993 - termed as High Sustainability companies - exhibit by 2009 distinct...
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Corporate Social Responsibility Through an Economic Lens
Reinhardt, Forest L. - 2010
;corporate social responsibilityquot; (CSR), particularly in the realm of environmental protection. Beyond complete compliance with …
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Learning Versus Stealing : How Important are Market-Share Reallocations to India's Productivity Growth?
Harrison, Ann E. - 2011
, firm-level data from India's organized manufacturing sector to show that market-share reallocations did play an important …
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Unconditional Convergence
Rodrik, Dani - 2011
Unlike economies as a whole, manufacturing industries exhibit unconditional convergence in labor productivity. The … paper documents this finding for 4-digit manufacturing sectors for a large group of developed and developing countries over … parts of manufacturing …
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The Impacts of the Climate Change Levy on Manufacturing : Evidence from Microdata
Martin, Ralf - 2011
We estimate the impacts of the Climate Change Levy (CCL) on manufacturing plants using panel data from the UK …
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