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The Fall and Rise of the Norwegian IT Industry in the Global Age, 1970-2005
Sogner, Knut - 2014
Although Norway's information-technology (IT) industry has never been an international success, it has been a critical factor in the country's economy over the past thirty years. Several IT companies came close to reaching a global scale, but escalating costs finally prevented them from doing...
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Stand und Perspektiven der "New Economy" in ausgewählten Mitgliedstaaten der EU aus deutscher Sicht
Vieweg, Hans-Günther; Fuchs, Thomas; Hild, Reinhard; … - 2005
Die vorliegende Studie wurde im ifo Arbeitsbereich Branchenforschung erstellt und im Frühjahr 2005 abgeschlossen. Auftraggeber war das Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Arbeit. Gegenstand der Studie sind der Stand und die Perspektiven der „New Economy“ in Deutschland sowie ein Vergleich...
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Essays on offshoring, wage inequality and innovation
Benz, Sebastian - 2014
chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but … similar frameworks. In the first framework the profitability of offshoring is based on increasing returns to scale on the task …-level, whereas the second framework relies on differences in relative factor endowments of the two countries involved in offshoring …
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Essays on offshoring, wage inequality and innovation
Benz, Sebastian - 2014
chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but … similar frameworks. In the first framework the profitability of offshoring is based on increasing returns to scale on the task …-level, whereas the second framework relies on differences in relative factor endowments of the two countries involved in offshoring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010395778
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Economic Linkages and Comparative Advantage of the UK Creative Sector
Ye, Zhen (Peter); Yin, Ya Ping - 2012
This paper adopts the industrial capabilities argument and the concept of revealed comparative advantage as the basis for evaluating the competitiveness of the UK creative industries in sustaining export growth. The empirical results have revealed a heterogeneous nature of the economic linkages...
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Outsourcing of information technology and business processes in Poland : motivations and environmental factors
Piotrowicz, Wojciech; Kedziora, Damian - In: Managing global transitions : international research journal 16 (2018) 4, pp. 307-333
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The information technology and business process outsourcing industry : diversity and challenges in Asia
Mitra, Raja Mikael - 2013
Some countries and regions have been more successful than others in developing information technology-business process outsourcing (IT-BPO) services industries. India and the Philippines in particular have offered educated human resources at low cost, attractive fiscal incentives, and industrial...
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Global sourcing and technical efficiency : a firm-level study on the ICT industry in Sweden
Andersson, Martin; Stone, Trudy-Ann - In: Journal of business economics and management 18 (2017) 5, pp. 877-896
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The impact of firm financing constraints on R&D over the business cycle
Männasoo, Kadri; Meriküll, Jaanika - 2015
The paper studies financing constraints for R&D over the latest boom and bust episode in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Given that financial and venture capital markets in CEE are thin in comparison to those in high-income economies and that many of CEE countries experienced a credit crunch...
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Real convergence in the European Union : bridging the gap between the new and old member states
Holobiuc, Ana-Maria - In: European financial and accounting journal : EFAJ 16 (2021) 2, pp. 29-50
One of the fundamental pillars of the European Union aims at the convergence of economic performances among its Member States. This objective has become increasingly challenging with the advancement of the integration process from the customs union to the economic and monetary union, from the...
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