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Joining the supply chain : a firm-level perspective from Southeast Asia
Wignaraja, Ganeshan - 2014
to improve our understanding of fragmentation of manufacturing across borders. The research maps supply chains and …
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Regional location of business sector research and development
Eliasson, Kent; Hansson, Pär; Lindvert, Markus - 2024
, colocation of R&D and manufacturing within an enterprise group in a region (internal agglomeration) appears to be a significant …
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Competition and innovation : an experimental investigation
Darai, Donja; Sacco, Dario; Schmutzler, Armin - 2009 - Revised version
The paper analyzes the effects of more intense competition on firms' incentives to invest in process innovations. We carry out experiments for two-stage games, where R&D investment choices are followed by product market competition. As predicted by theory, an increase in the number of firms from...
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Innovation, R&D and productivity in the Costa Rican ICT sector : a case study
Monge González, Ricardo; Hewitt, John - 2010
This paper addresses the relationships between innovation, research and development (R&D) and productivity in domestic ICT firms in Costa Rica. Factors considered were the types of innovation outputs produced by domestic ICT firms, the relative importance of innovation inputs, the impacts of...
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Export mix changes and firm performance : evidence from Chile
Álvarez, Roberto; Zahler, Andrés - 2014
In this paper we analyze changes in the export mix of Chilean firms, looking particularly at differences between large firms and SMEs. To do that, we use detailed information of exported products by firms during the period 1995-2005. Our econometric results, which look at the impact of export...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011286252
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Covid-19 pandemic and SMEs' performance in Latin America
Cerda, Maikol; Cervantes, David; Gertler, Paul J.; … - 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic generated a large negative external shock to the global economy. Businesses worldwide were affected by economic, health, and mobility restrictions that impacted consumers' ability to access goods and services and firms' profitability and survival rates. In this paper, we...
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Mapping the future of high value manufacturing in India
Kathuria, Rajat; Kedia, Mansi; Balakrishnan, Uttara - 2014
Indi's stagnating manufacturing sector has become a serious cause of concern for Indian policy makers. Several reasons … importance of the manufacturing sector and its potential to contribute to growth and employment, corrective measures must be … high value manufacturing sector and provides recommendations on measures to achieve this objective. In the absence of …
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On the relationship between R&D and productivity : a treatment effect analysis
Medda, Giuseppe; Piga, Claudio A.; Siegel, Donald S. - 2003
This study uses firm level data from two detailed surveys of Italian manufacturing firms to study the relationship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011591283
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Stylized facts on the evolution of the enterprise size distribution in India's manufacturing sector
Kapoor, Radhicka - 2022
contributors to employment in the manufacturing sector. And two, how their contributions have evolved over time, across states … informal/unincorporated manufacturing sector in India for the period between 2000-01 and 2015-16, we find that the enterprise …
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South-South FDI vs North-South FDI : a comparative analysis in the contextx of India
Bera, Subhasis; Gupta, Shikha - 2009
Over the years FDI activities from developing countries have grown very rapidly and most of these investments end up in other developing countries. Such FDI flows are formally known as South-South FDI. This paper attempts to compare the characteristics of South-South FDI versus North-South FDI...
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