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Has the economy fundamentally changed in the 1990s because of the introduction of information technology or is the impact of IT not so much "new" as larger than before? In this article, Barry Bosworth and Jack Triplett of the Brooking Institution examine this issue with a detailed analysis of...
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forces of change, such as innovation, corporate strategies, industrial relocation, and policy. As distinct branches of the … pulp and paper industry passed from the early nascent phase to full maturity, the sources of innovation, nature of …
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The impact of innovation on firm performance has been a matter of significant interest to economists and policy makers … for decades. Although innovation is generally regarded as a means of improving the competitiveness of firms and their … attempts to assess the drivers of the innovation process in two different institutional settings: mature market economies of …
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Innovation is a crucial driver of urban and regional economic success. Innovative cities and regions tend to grow … small body of innovators gain relative to others, innovation may lead to inequality. The evidence on this point is … first comparative evidence on the link between innovation and inequality in a continental perspective. Using micro data from …
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This work is a PhD dissertation, written at the Department of Economics, McGill University. The thesis offers a new framework for inflation as a process of restructuring. Contrary to existing theories of inflation, which tend to take structure and institutions as given for the purpose of...
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The growing importance of innovation in economic growth has encouraged the development of innovation capabilities in … the deepening of innovation networks in these countries. Together with our prior work, the Japanese and U.S. data produce … similar conclusions about innovation networks. …
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Regulatory reform efforts in a broad range of industries have resulted in increased importance of competitive forces as a means to allocate resources and improve economic efficiency. A number of indicators suggest that such forces have been stronger in the United States than in most other OECD...
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This study investigates the impact of financial resource availability on entrepreneurial orientation (EO), customer orientation (CO) and on growth in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in Austria and Hungary. Structural equation modeling revealed that financial resource availability is...
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This study investigates the impact of financial resource availability on entrepreneurial orientation (EO), customer orientation (CO) and on growth in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in Austria and Hungary. Structural equation modeling revealed that financial resource availability is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775509
This study investigates the impact of financial resource availability on entrepreneurial orientation (EO), customer orientation (CO) and on growth in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in Austria and Hungary. Structural equation modeling revealed that financial resource availability is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010778619