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What do we know about spatial entry?
Debarsy, Nicolas; Dejardin, Marcus - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2008
In his oft-cited “What do we know about entry?”, Paul Geroski (1995) gave a survey of empirical works on this central topic regarding industrial organization and, more precisely, market dynamics. Surprisingly, his article remains silent on the spatial dimension of these dynamics. This paper...
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Do Entry Conditions Vary over Time? Entry andCompetition in the Broadband Market: 1999-2003
Xiao, Mo; Orazem, Peter F. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2006
We extend Bresnahan and Reiss’s (1991) model of local oligopoly to allow firm entry and exit over time.In our framework, entrants have to incur sunk costs in order to enter a market. After becomingincumbents, they disregard these entry costs in deciding whether to continue operating or to...
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Innovation Patterns under the Magnifying Glass.Firm-level latent class analysis of innovation activities in services
Trigo, Alexandre - Manchester Business School - 2005
form the basis of recent literature on innovation in services have proved the existence of a wide range of innovation … patterns, confuting the initial assumption that all services are supplier-dominated. In this sense, innovation in services … paper aims to analyse the real scope of diversity in innovation patterns in services regarding innovation activities and …
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Self-Selection into Export Markets byBusiness Services Firms: Evidence fromFrance, Germany and the United Kingdom
Temouri, Yama; Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firmsthat (start to) export … productiveservices firms that pay higher wages. The surprising finding of self-selection of less profitableGerman business services firms …
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Employment Effects of Foreign Direct Investment in the Service Sector: A Systematic Approach
Henneberger, Fred; Ziegler, Alexandre - Forschungsinstitut für Arbeit und Arbeitsrecht <St. Gallen>
It is commonly alleged that foreign direct investment (FDI) in the service sector haspositive consequences for the domestic labor market. This paper shows that this widelyaccepted view does not generally hold...
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Changing Roles of Customers : Consequences for HRM
Graf, Albert - Institut für Versicherungswirtschaft <Sankt Gallen> - 2007
The research topics HRM and customer involvement are usually investigated separately.On the one hand, research shows that the spectrum of roles and functions ofcustomers as key company stakeholders has changed dramatically in the last fewyears. In service companies, now more than ever, customers...
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The Determinants of New-firm Survival across Regional Economies
Acs, Zoltán J.; Armington, Catherine; Zhang, Ting - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2006
Motivated by differences in New-firm survival across regions, this paper explores the impact of regional human capital on New-firm survival rates. New-firm survival is interpreted through formation rates of surviving versus closed firms in the sevice sector...
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The Impact of Geographic Differences inHuman Capital on Service Firm Formation Rates
Acs, Zoltán J.; Armington, Catherine - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004
Although human capital externalities are a key variable in theories of economic growth, there has been little investigation of the mechanism by which these externalities are realized. We examine the relationship between the local levels of human capital and firm formation rates and find that...
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THE PRODUCTIVITY IMPACT OF IT DEPLOYMENT:AN EMPIRICAL EVALUATION OF ATMINTRODUCTION
Michelle Haynes; Thompson, Steve - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2000
The service industries in general and financial services in particular have been disproportionatelylarge investors in …
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Are Intellectual Property Rights Detrimental toInnovation?
Crampes, Claude; Langinier, Corinne - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2005
Intellectual property rights are legal constraints that limit entry in industries where incumbentsare innovators. The set of legal constraints is the same for all industries, withoutconsidering that the externalities created by entry are not necessarily negative for the incumbentor that the...
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