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Competition and the relative productivity of large and small firms

Symeonidis, George - 2010

Using a comprehensive dataset on the incidence of price-fixing across British manufacturing industries in the 1950s, I compare collusive and competitive industries and find evidence of a negative relationship between collusion and the labour productivity of larger firms relative to smaller...

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Does personality matter? : small business owners and modes of innovation

Runst, Petrik; Thomä, Jörg - 2020

and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are successful in innovation without research and development (R&D) efforts. In this … DUI-based innovation in less R&D-intensive SMEs. That is, companies operating largely under the DUI mode seem to benefit …

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Workplace organisation and innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises

Lorenz, Edward H.; Potter, Jonathan - 2019

-sized enterprises (SMEs). It uses data for 30 countries, drawn from the European Company Survey, the OECD Programme for International … Assessment of Adult Competencies and the Community Innovation Survey. It contrasts SMEs adopting a “learning organisation” or … “discretionary learning” form of workplace organisation with SMEs adopting more hierarchical organisational forms. Learning …

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Managerial practices and students' performance

Di Liberto, Adriana; Schivardi, Fabiano; Sulis, Giovanni - 2014

We study the effects of managerial practices in schools on students' outcomes. We measure managerial practices using the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable across countries. We find substantial heterogeneity in...

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Managerial practices and student performance : evidence from changes in school principals

Di Liberto, Adriana; Giua, Ludovica; Schivardi, Fabiano; … - 2023

We study how managerial practices of school principals affect student performance and aspirations. We link administrative data on secondary Italian students to the management scores of their school principals in 2011 and 2015 based on the World Management Survey methodology. The frequent...

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Investment in ICT : determinants and economic implications

Fabritz, Nadine - 2015

This study was prepared by Nadine Fabritz while she was working at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in the Department for Human Capital and Innovation. It was completed in June 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich in October...

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Information technology and the dynamics of firm and industrial structure: The British IT consulting industry as a contemporary specimen

Simons, Kenneth L. - 2001

The Internet is often anticipated to have disruptive competitive impacts, causing upstart firms to overthrow incumbent market leaders. This paper uses the UK IT consulting industry as a test case to see whether such competitive impacts of the Internet might already be occurring. Comparable...

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Innovation and self-employment

Ciarli, Tommaso; Di Ubaldo, Mattia; Savona, Maria - 2020

The paper adds to the literature on innovation and employment by looking at the relationship between R&D investments and the rise of alternative work arrangements, particularly selfemployment (SE). A literature review on the determinants of the emergence of non-standard work, alternative work...

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Do inventors talk to strangers? : on proximity and collaborative knowledge creation

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Nathan, Max; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - 2013

inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper … show that physical proximity is an important influence on collaboration, but is mediated by organisational and ethnic …

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Educational inequality and the returns to skills

Lundberg, Shelly - 2013

Research and policy discussion about the diverging fortunes of children from advantaged and disadvantaged households have focused on the skill disparities between these children – how they might arise and how they might be remediated. Analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Study of...

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