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ICT, R&D and Organizational Innovation : Exploring Complementarities in Investment and Production
Mohnen, Pierre - 2018
This paper examines whether there are complementarities between investments in ICT, R&D and organizational innovation … return of 9.7%, followed by 6% to 7% on organizational innovation and a modest 1.4% to 1.8% on R&D in services and …
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Innovation and Productivity in Smes : Empirical Evidence for Italy
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2010
Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not … capture. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a structural model of innovation which incorporates information on innovation … both process and product innovation. Both these kinds of innovation have a positive impact on firm's productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758059
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Why are Some Regions More Innovative than Others? The Role of Firm Size Diversity
Agrawal, Ajay K. - 2015
interplay of these two localized externalities and their impact on regional innovation. We examine MSA-level patent data during … the period 1975-2000 and find that innovation output is higher where large and small labs coexist. The finding is robust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013037282
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Assessing Job Flows Across Countries : The Role of Industry, Firm Size and Regulations
Haltiwanger, John - 2010
This paper analyzes job flows in a sample of 16 industrial and emerging economies over the past decade, exploiting a harmonized firm-level dataset. It shows that industry and firm size effects (and especially firm size) account for a large fraction in the overall variability in job flows....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759408
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Globalization and Endogenous Firm Scope
Nocke, Volker - 2010
We develop a theory of multiproduct firms to analyze the effects of globalization on the distributions of firm size, scope, and productivity. Our model explains two puzzles. First, it explains the well-known size-discount puzzle: large firms have lower values of Tobin%u2019s Q than small firms....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012761279
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Exports, Borders, Distance, and Plant Size
Holmes, Thomas J. - 2010
The fact that large manufacturing plants export relatively more than small plants has been at the foundation of much work in the international trade literature. We examine this fact using Census micro data on plant shipments from the Commodity Flow Survey. We show the fact is not entirely an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013142550
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The Relationship between Firm Size and Firm Growth in the U.S. Manufacturing Sector
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2022
This paper investigates the dynamics of firm growth in the U. S.manufacturing sector in the recent past. I use panel data on thepublicly traded firms in the U. S. manufacturing sector: from auniverse of approximately 1800 firms in 1976, I am able to follow mostof them for at least three years,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321607
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Employer Size and the Wage Structure in U.S. Manufacturing
Davis, Steven J.; Haltiwanger, John - 2021
We study how the hourly wage structure varies with establishment size and how wage dispersion breaks down into between-plant and within-plant components Our study combines household and establishment data for the U.S. manufacturing sector in 1982. 1) Wage dispersion falls sharply with...
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How Does Information Technology Really Affect Productivity? Plant-Level Comparisons of Product Innovation, Process Improvement and Worker Skills
Bartel, Ann P.; Ichniowski, Casey; Shaw, Kathryn L. - 2021
manufacturing - to study the effects of new IT on product innovation, production process improvements, employee skills and work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013244133
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Evidence on the Impact of R&D and ICT Investment on Innovation and Productivity in Italian Firms
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2014
as sources of relative innovation underperformance in Europe vis-à-vis the United States. In this paper we investigate R …) that has been modified to include ICT investment and R&D as the two main inputs into innovation and productivity. We find … that R&D and ICT are both strongly associated with innovation and productivity, with R&D being more important for …
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