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The it Revolution and the Globalization of R&D
Branstetter, Lee - 2018
markets. One of the distinguishing features of the R&D globalization phenomenon is its concentration within the software … three important phenomena: (1) the globalization of R&D, (2) the growing importance of software and IT to firm innovation … large quantities of STEM workers who possessed IT and software skills. Our findings support the view that the globalization …
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Innovation in the Global Firm
Bilir, Kamran - 2016
How global are the gains from innovation? When firms operate production plants in multiple countries, technological improvements developed in one location may be shared with foreign sites for efficiency gain. We develop a model that accounts for such transfer, and apply it to measure private...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012994907
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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, and the effects of different investment profiles on total factor productivity growth on Dutch firm-level data. We estimate an integrated model of investment profile adoption and...
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Management as a Technology?
Bloom, Nicholas - 2016
Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain firm and national productivity, or do they simply reflect contingent management styles? We collect data on core management practices from over 11,000 firms in 34 countries. We find large cross-country differences in the adoption...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012989131
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Heterogeneity and the Dynamics of Technology Adoption
Ryan, Stephen P - 2014
We estimate the demand for a videocalling technology in the presence of both network effects and heterogeneity. Using a unique dataset from a large multinational firm, we pose and estimate a fully dynamic model of technology adoption. We propose a novel identification strategy based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067628
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We Can Work it Out - the Globalisation of Ict-Enabled Services
van Welsum, Desiree - 2010
This paper examines the relationship between the share of employment potentially affected by offshoring and economic and structural factors, including trade in business services and foreign direct investment (FDI), using simple descriptive regressions for a panel of OECD economies between 1996...
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Political Limits to Globalization
Acemoglu, Daron - 2010
Despite the major advances in information technology that have shaped the recent wave of globalization, openness to … suggests that a particular threat and a limiting factor to globalization and its future developments may be militarist …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148385
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Ethnic Innovation and U.S. Multinational Firm Activity
Foley, C. Fritz - 2016
This paper studies the impact that immigrant innovators have on the global activities of U.S. firms by analyzing detailed data on patent applications and on the operations of the foreign affiliates of U.S. multinational firms. The results indicate that increases in the share of a firm's...
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Globalization, Technology, and the Skill Premium : A Quantitative Analysis
Burstein, Ariel T. - 2010
We construct a model of international trade and multinational production (MP) to examine the impact of globalization on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137021
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Globalized Israel : High Tech Prowess and Buttressing FDI
Razin, Assaf - 2017
The paper reviews the crucial role which globalization forces played in Israel's transformation from low tech to high …
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