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Hat die Fehlallokation von Produktionsfaktoren zur Produktivitätsschwäche in Deutschland beigetragen?
Jannsen, Nils - In: Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 68 (2019) 1, pp. 6-26
Abstract Productivity growth in many advanced economies has decelerated in the last decades. There is increasing … evidence that the misallocation of production function has contributed to the weakness in productivity. Factors behind this … misallocation of production factors on productivity and assess their role for the weakness in productivity growth in Germany …
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Blood, Sweat, and Tears: The Rise and Decline of the East German Economy, 1949–1988 / Blut, Schweiß, Tränen: Aufstieg und Niedergang der ostdeutschen Wirtschaft, 1949–1988
Blum, Ulrich; Dudley, Leonard - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 220 (2000) 4, pp. 438-452
Summary The rise of the East-German economy in the 1950s and 1960s and its decline in the 1970s and 1980s is difficult to explain by neoclassical economics. However; the observed life cycle may be explained by the inclusion of concepts from old and new institutional economics and from functional...
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Unterschiedliche makroökonomische Strukturen, wirtschaftliche Integration und einheitliche Geldpolitik in Europa / Asymmetrie Macroeconomic Structures, Economic Integration and the...
In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 222 (2002) 1, pp. 1-21
Zusammenfassung Dieser Beitrag liefert einen Uberblick über die Bedeutung asymmetrischer makroökonomischer Strukturen in den EWU Mitgliedsländern für die einheitliche Geldpolitik. Zunächst wird im Rahmen eines Modells illustriert, welche grundsätzliche Bedeutung asymmetrischen...
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Managing Software Risks in Maintenance Projects, from a Vendor Perspective: A Case Study in Global Software Development
Sundararajan, Srikrishnan; Bhasi, M.; Pramod, K.V. - In: International Journal of Information Technology Project … 8 (2017) 1, pp. 35-54
Global software development exposes projects to the challenges arising from geo-cultural spread of the team and delegation of project ownership. Therefore, risk management in global software development receives attention from many researchers today. The primary focus in this paper is an...
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Labor Market Effects of Trade and FDI – Recent Advances and Research Gaps
Pflüger, Michael; Blien, Uwe; Möller, Joachim; … - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 233 (2013) 1, pp. 86-116
Summary The last decade has been shaped by dramatic developments in international trade, international investment and production, both in terms of the scale of events and in terms of their qualitative nature. Intriguing questions have been thrown up concerning the labor market impact of these...
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Redirecting International Trade: Contracts, Conflicts, and Institutions
Kokko, Ari; Söderlund, Bengt; Tingvall, Patrik Gustavsson - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 234 (2014) 6, pp. 688-721
Summary The global financial crisis has contributed to the redirection of trade towards new markets outside the OECD area, where both demand patterns and the institutional environment differ from those in the OECD. This study provides an empirical examination of the consequences of this shift,...
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The next wave: Refining the future of offshoring
Rutherford, Bruce; Mobley, Shawn - In: Journal of Corporate Real Estate 7 (2005) 1, pp. 87-95
Offshoring, the process of relocating discrete business functions or processes to foreign locations, is rapidly … expanding. Offshoring integrally links real estate decisions to business strategy, offering corporate real estate (CRE … leadership requires knowledge of the issues, opportunities, challenges and tactics involved in the offshoring process. This paper …
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Trade between China and The Netherlands: a case study of trade in tasks
Den Butter, Frank; Hayat, Raphie - In: Journal of Chinese Economic and Foreign Trade Studies 6 (2013) 3, pp. 178-191
Purpose – This paper argues that the recent rise in China Dutch trade is a typical example of two nations trading tasks rather than goods. Design/methodology/approach – China Dutch trade growth between 1996 and 2010 is compared with China's trade growth with its main partners. In addition,...
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Strategies for sustaining the edge in offshore outsourcing of services: the case of India
Javalgi, Rajshekhar (Raj) G.; Benoy Joseph, W.; Granot, Elad - In: Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing 28 (2013) 6, pp. 475-486
Purpose – Offshore outsourcing offers competitive advantages when goods and services are produced economically and with acceptable or superior quality by suppliers located outside a firm's home country. The purpose of this paper is to focus on India as a destination for offshore outsourcing of...
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Reshaping global technology development: innovation and entrepreneurship in China and India
Lynn, Leonard; Meil, Pamela; Salzman, Hal - In: Journal of Asia Business Studies 6 (2012) 2, pp. 143-159
Purpose – This paper seeks to explore the processes by which the offshoring of technology development to India and … out corporate strategies, the offshoring of technology development by multinationals is more often incremental and driven … development capabilities. Multinational managers in our study were not sufficiently accounting for the costs of offshoring and …
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