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The Biggest Experience to Reduce Environmental Pollutants by Substitute Fuel CNG in the Middle East & the Middle Asia
momeni, Ali - 2011
Automobile industry is an exhaustive industry bringing development for any country. The industrial capabilities needed for development rest in this branch of industry. The Iranian automobile making companies move in line with this aim. But in recent decades, in addition to development of...
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Race to the Future: Innovations in Gifted and Enrichment Education in Asia, and Implications for the United States
Ibata-Arens, Kathryn C. - In: Administrative Sciences 2 (2012) 1, pp. 1-25
education policy and practice into a key component of national innovation strategies: human capital development. Asian countries … are developing an emphasis on innovation and creativity at all levels of education, while the United States continues (via … education practices that enrich student learning, helping children to reach their highest potential in some countries, cultural …
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Firm-level Human Capital and Innovation: Evidence from China
Sun, Xiuli; Li, Haizheng; Ghosal, Vivek - 2017
include skilled human capital (number of highly educated workers), general manager’s education and tenure, and management team …’s education and age. We find that skilled human capital has a significant positive effect on firms’ innovation, while the … role in firm innovation in metropolitan cities, while it is the General Manager’s education that has a positive and …
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Firm-level human capital and innovation : evidence from China
Sun, Xiuli; Li, Haizheng; Ghosal, Vivek - 2017
include skilled human capital (number of highly educated workers), general manager’s education and tenure, and management team …'s education and age. We find that skilled human capital has a significant positive effect on firms' innovation, while the … role in firm innovation in metropolitan cities, while it is the General Manager's education that has a positive and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011615502
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Editor’s Overview
Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 10 (2005) Spring, pp. 1-2
This tenth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards contains six articles. Topics covered are: the puzzling recent behaviour of labour productivity in Canada; an international perspective on Canada's productivity performance since the...
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Work-Life Research in the Asia-Pacific : Implications for Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Chan, Xi Wen (ed.); Shang, Sudong (ed.); Lu, Luo (ed.) - 2024
Chapter 1. Advancing work-life equality and justice in the Asia-Pacific: Insights from Australia -- Chapter 2. The rise of flexible working in Southeast Asia: Insights from Thailand and the Philippines -- Chapter 3. Emerging Voice Mechanisms in Asian Gig Economies: Implications for Gig...
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An Exploratory Study of Intra-Firm Process Innovations Transfer in Asia
Chai, Kah-Hin; Gregory, Mike; Shi, Yongjiang - 2012
This paper examines how seven process innovations have been shared and adopted (or not adopted) between four factories of a multinational company located in Asia. In contrast to most previous studies in this area, these process innovation diffusions happened in a bottom-up manner in which the...
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Productivity Trends in Asia Since 1980
Oguchi, Noriyoshi - In: International Productivity Monitor 10 (2005) Spring, pp. 69-78
Asia has become the economic powerhouse of the world. This article provides a detailed discussion of trends in output, labour and capital inputs, and labour, capital and total factor productivity (TFP) in Asian countries since 1980. The author finds that TFP growth has been quite rapid in most...
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Intensity of Use Hypothesis : Analysis of Selected Asian Countries with Structural Differences
Soile, Ismail - 2015
Several efforts have been made to estimate the relationship between intensity of metal use and per capita income at different levels with results supporting the hypothesis that metal consumption per unit of GDP initially increases, peak and later decline with rising income per head. This paper...
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Emergence of Innovative Manufacturing Firms Across Asian Countries
Singh, Lakhwinder - 2016
The recent phase of globalization has witnessed increasing influence of Asian countries in the global economy. This is supported by the rise of Asian firms and their increasing presence in economic activities across the globe through innovations in manufacturing. This paper attempts to trace the...
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