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A Retrospective Look at Rescuing and Restructuring General Motors and Chrysler
Goolsbee, Austan D. - 2015
steps taken by the government to rescue them. The paper also summarizes the performance of the U.S. auto industry since the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013026801
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How Does Outsourcing Affect Performance Dynamics? Evidence from the Automobile Industry
Novak, Sharon - 2015
This paper examines the impact of vertical integration on the dynamics of performance over the automobile product … vertical integration and different performance margins. Outsourcing facilitates access to cutting-edge technology and the use … of high-powered performance contracts. Vertical integration allows firms to adapt to unforeseen contingencies and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012750358
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Improving Management Through Worker Evaluations : Evidence from Auto Manufacturing
Cai, Jing; Wang, Shing-Yi B. - 2022
Using a randomized experiment with an automobile manufacturing firm in China, we measure the effects of letting workers evaluate their managers on worker and firm outcomes. In the treatment teams, workers evaluate their supervisors monthly. We find that providing feedback leads to significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013300787
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Making the Numbers? "Short Termism" & the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster
Repenning, Nelson - 2010
Much recent work in strategy and popular discussion suggests that an excessive focus on "managing the numbers" --delivering quarterly earnings at the expense of longer term investments--makes it difficult for firms to make the investments necessary to build competitive advantage. "Short termism"...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138087
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Nowcasting and Placecasting Entrepreneurial Quality and Performance
Guzman, Jorge - 2015
A central challenge in the measurement of entrepreneurship is accounting for the wide variation in entrepreneurial quality across firms. This paper develops a new approach for estimating entrepreneurial quality by linking the probability of a growth outcome (e.g., achieving an IPO or a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028060
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Production Chains
Levine, David K. - 2010
More advanced technologies demand higher degrees of specialization - and longer chains of production connecting raw inputs to final outputs. Longer production chains are subject to a "weakest link" effect: they are more fragile and more prone to failure. Optimal chain length is determined by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135410
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Growing Like China : Firm Performance and Global Production Line Position
Chor, Davin; Manova, Kalina; Yu, Zhihong - 2022
firms position themselves in global production lines and how this evolves with productivity and performance over the firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013289106
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Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency and Directed Technical Change : Evidence from the Auto Industry
Aghion, Philippe - 2014
innovation distinguishing between "dirty" (internal combustion engine) and "clean" (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064941
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Idea Diffusion and Property Rights
Jovanovic, Boyan; Wang, Zhu - 2022
We study the innovation and diffusion of technology at the industry level. We derive the full dynamic paths of an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014091108
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Market Structure and Innovation : A Dynamic Analysis of the Global Automobile Industry
Hashmi, Aamir Rafique - 2010
We study the relationship between market structure and innovation in the global automobile industry from 1982 to 2004 … using the dynamic industry framework of Ericson and Pakes (1995). Firms optimally choose a continuous level of innovation in … parameter -- the cost of innovation. In terms of the relationship between market structure and innovation, we find that: (1) At …
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