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A recent literature has emerged providing compelling evidence that a major shift in the organization of the developed economies has been taking place: away from what has been characterized as the managed economy towards the entrepreneurial economy. In particular, the empirical evidence provides...
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significant economies of scale (electronic products and motor vehicles). Our study links unsatisfactory productivity gains and the …
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firms position themselves in global production lines and how this evolves with productivity and performance over the firm …
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firms position themselves in global production lines and how this evolves with productivity and performance over the firm …
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The process of globalization encompasses economic and financial integration. The abolition of capital controls and the dismantling of barriers of different kinds will expose previously sheltered companies to shocks on the global economic arena. Policy-makers in already globalized countries have...
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We present a simple model to illustrate how birthplace diversity may affect team performance. The model assumes that birthplace diversity increases the stock of available knowledge due to skill complementarities and decreases effciency due to communication barriers. The consequence of these two...
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indirect effects of the rise of industrial robots and productivity via international value chains on various industrial … technological advancements measured by total factor productivity (TFP). The results indicate that the overall impact of the …-2014 significantly, while the overall impact on the real value added growth of industries in the world was positive and significant. The …
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Many studies have estimated the growth effects of globalization where globalization was measured with a few economic variables, ignoring its social and political dimensions. Recently Dreher (2006) has developed a comprehensive measure of globalization with several variables from the economic,...
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, scope, and productivity. Our model explains two puzzles. First, it explains the well-known size-discount puzzle: large firms … our model, globalization not only affects the distribution of observed productivities but also productivity at the firm …
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Businesses around the world are rapidly adopting digital technologies. Adoption, though, is not even, but it varies …
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