study investigates investment in technology by firms in Southwest Nigeria and how technology investment related factors … affect the export potential of firms. Data was obtained from a survey of Nigerian firms in 2008. Results demonstrate that … manufacturing related functions, and technology investments are not directly targeted at improving the export potential of firms …

firms. The main source of data was the empirical research that I conducted in St.Petersburg, Russia, where I interviewed … owners and/or managers of forty-five firms in 2001 and 2002.When firms perceive state institutions as unable to guarantee the …

, littleresearch has compared employee tenure or the use of human resource practices forretention between firms of different … and tenure. Tenure was the highest in overseas Chinese, moderate inJapanese/Korean, and lowest in Western firms. The … results also suggest that thevariation in tenure between nationalities was partly mediated by the firms’ use of ahuman …

The thesis is concerned with the growth of ?connected? firms, characterised as small firms that are engaged in stable … spatial and vertical network relationships, involving a variety of actors, including larger firms. It locates these firms … connected artisanal firms. The literature review is constructed around a detailed re-appraisal of Edith Penrose?s (1959) study …

The article deals with the use of marketing activities in some firms in the Czech Republic. It is not only …

las expectativas subjetivas de recuperación de las empresas. ; This paper explores the heterogeneity across firms within … to our results, the impact of the COVID-19 shock was larger in the case of small, young and less productive firms located … in urban areas within each sector-region pair. Moreover, these firms resorted ... …

explaining these fluctuations, standard macroeconomic models generally assume that firms are small and that their microeconomic …

laborales para evadir . ; This paper investigates the effects of monitoring the information trails generated by firms … Spain to empirically test the theoretical predictions on firms’ responses to an increase in monitoring effort. Firms with … transactions reported by those fi rms. Using fi nancial statements from practically the entire universe of Spanish firms for the …