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Privatisierung von Schieneninfrastruktur zusammengefasst. …
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estimate price-cost margins and to analyze how these are affected by privatization and increased competitive pressure. The … estimating firm performance, by making use of the properties of the primal and dual Solow residual. We find that privatization is … domestic privatized firms. Our results suggest that the sequencing of reforms, such as demonopolization prior to privatization …
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This paper uses a unique representative firm level data set to analyse the effect of domestic and international competitive pressure and ownership changes in three emerging economies, Bulgaria Poland and Romania. Our main findings can be summarized as follows: Domestic competitive pressure,...
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innovation, either to reduce production costs for a given output, to create a new product or service, or to deliver products to …
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) increases on the strategic emphasis placed on innovation, both product and process, positively impact the prominence managers … place on IT; (2) the impact of innovation (both product and process) on performance (both profitability and growth) is …
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This study aims to elucidate firm and performance attributes of a population of small, elite firms that assume prominent positions in their respective technological spaces and product markets. More specifically, this study addresses the role and impact of industrial agglomeration on the location...
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In an effort to obtain value for money and eliminate waste and inefficiency, inherent within the public sector, Governments throughout the world are actively encouraging the private sector to become interested in funding public infrastructure projects. There are several examples within Australia...
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incorporating the private sector’s expertise, efficiency, innovation, business sense, risk sharing, financing etc. into public works …
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Public-private partnerships offer potentially important opportunities for pro-pooragricultural research in developing countries. Yet in the international agricultural researchcommunity--and with regard to the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research(CGIAR) itself--we see few...
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A seed supply system can be defined in general terms as that combination of components, processes and their organisation, along with the interactions and support involved in the production and marketing of seeds of one or more species to a particular user–client grouping in an ongoing way....
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