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Certificación internacional de calidad : ¿señalizando a quién? : impacto en el desempeño de empresas en Argentina
Bernini, Federico; Garone, Lucas Figal; Maffioli, Alessandro - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011588537
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Optimal information transmission in organizations : search and congestion
Arenas, Àlex; Cabrales, Antonio; Díaz-Guilera, Albert; … - 2004
We propose a stylized model of a problem-solving organization whose internal communication structure is given by a fixed network. Problems arrive randomly anywhere in this network and must find their way to their respective specialized solvers by relying on local information alone. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011603091
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Merge or fail? : The determinants of mergers and bankruptcies in Switzerland, 1995 - 2000
Bühler, Stefan (contributor); Kaiser, Christian (contributor) - 2005
This paper examines the determinants of mergers and bankruptcies, using firm level data from the Swiss Business Census and the Dun & Bradstreet exit database for Switzerland (1995-2000). Employing duration analysis, we find considerable differences in the determinants of mergers and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002746135
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Business groups as hierarchies of firms : determinants of vertical integration and performance
Altomonte, Carlo; Rungi, Armando - 2013
We explore the nature of Business Groups, that is network-like forms of hierarchical organization between legally autonomous firms spanning both within and across national borders. Exploiting a unique dataset of 270,474 headquarters controlling more than 1,500,000 (domestic and foreign)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009737190
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Building up local productivity : infrastructure and firm dynamics in Mexico
Busso, Matias; Fentanes, Oscar - 2024
What determines the aggregate and distributional effects of new transportation infrastructure? One key overlooked channel is the role that infrastructure policy plays in changing the incentives of firms to enter, exit, and grow--in turn generating endogenous changes in local productivity. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015078327
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From outsourcing to productivity, passing through training : microeconometric evidence from Italy
Antonietti, Roberto - 2014
The aim of this paper is to provide firm-level evidence on the short-run link between outsourcing and labor … find a positive effect on productivity from outsourcing only if firms provide training for the workforce. This indirect … impact on productivity is independent of the type of activity outsourced and is bigger in the case of service outsourcing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250436
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A comprehensive ERP bibliography : 2000 - 2004
Møller, Charles (contributor) - 2004
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An emerging story of Rajasthan
Goldar, Amrita; Tarun; Kotal, Malay; Verma, Ritika - 2024
As global e-waste streams rise, recycling efforts remain insufficient, as does the willingness to promote recycling. This insufficiency is primarily due to the perception of "waste" as "disposable", which has hindered its consideration as a business opportunity. Over time, this perception has...
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The Emergence of Information Sharing in Credit Markets
Brown, Martin; Zehnder, Christian - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2007
We examine how asymmetric information and competition in the credit market affect voluntary information sharing between lenders. We study an experimental credit market in which information sharing can help lenders to distinguish goodborrowers from bad ones, because borrowers may exogenously...
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The governance of artificial intelligence : harnessing opportunities and mitigating challenges
Goos, Maarten; Savona, Maria - 2023
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