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Organizational Change in French Manufacturing : What Do We Learn from Firm Representatives and from Their Employees?
Greenan, Nathalie; Mairesse, Jacques - 2021
In this paper, we use a French matched employer-employee survey, the COI survey, conducted in 1997, to describe the general features of organizational change in manufacturing firms with more than 50 employees. In a first section, we explore the methodological issues associated with the building...
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Digital Innovation and the Distribution of Income
Guellec, Dominique - 2017
investors and top managers and less to the average workers, hence increasing income inequality. Market rents are needed to …
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Digital Rights Management and the Pricing of Digital Products
Park, Yooki; Scotchmer, Suzanne - 2021
As it becomes cheaper to copy and share digital content, vendors are turning to technical protections such as encryption. We argue that if protection is nevertheless imperfect, this transition will generally lower the prices of content relative to perfect legal enforcement. However, the effect...
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Demography, Unemployment, Automation, and Digitalization : Implications for the Creation of (Decent) Jobs, 2010–2030
Bloom, David E. - 2018
Globally, an estimated 734 million jobs will be required between 2010 and 2030 to accommodate recent and ongoing demographic shifts, account for plausible changes in labour force participation rates, and achieve target unemployment rates of at or below 4 percent for adults and at or below 8...
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Kill Zone
Kamepalli, Sai Krishna; Rajan, Raghuram G.; Zingales, Luigi - 2022
We study why acquisitions of entrant firms by an incumbent can deter innovation and entry in the digital platform industry, where there are strong network externalities and some customers face switching costs. A high probability of an acquisition induces some potential early adopters to wait for...
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Brand Management and Strategies Against Counterfeits
Qian, Yi - 2014
In this paper I provide a theory for brand-protection strategies to reduce counterfeiting under weak intellectual property rights. My theoretical framework has general implications for endogenous sunk cost investments as a means of deterring counterfeiters. My model incorporates two layers of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066603
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State-Owned Enterprise Behaviour Responses to Trade Reforms : Some Analytics and Numerical Simulation Results Using Chinese Data
Whalley, John - 2007
We note the absence of prior literature on analytical structures to be used for China and other economies with … when used in policy debate. One formulation centres on SOE managerial control. In this enterprise managers are politically … rationing. The managers are assured to maximize the size of the enterprise rather than profits since this yields maximal …
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Grasp the Large, Let Go of the Small : The Transformation of the State Sector in China
Hsieh, Chang-Tai - 2015
Starting in the late 1990s, China undertook a dramatic transformation of the large number of firms under state control …
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Can Bureaucrats Really Be Paid Like CEOS? School Administrator Incentives for Anemia Reduction in Rural China
Luo, Renfu - 2015
Unlike performance incentives for private sector managers, little is known about performance incentives for managers in … public sector bureaucracies. Through a randomized trial in rural China, we study performance incentives rewarding school …
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Do CEOS Know Best? Evidence from China
Bloom, Nicholas - 2018
We analyze a new management survey for around 1,000 firms and 10,000 employees across two large provinces in China. The … unique aspect of this survey is it collected management data from the CEO, a random sample of senior managers and workers. We … poorly managed firms. This distribution of management scores is similar for CEOs, senior managers and workers management, and …
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