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The Decline of Manufacturing in the U.S. Economy : Impacts of China's ‘Trade Shock’, Trump's Protectionist Tariffs, and the Drivers of Manufacturing Job Losses (Presentation Slides...
Wind, Serge L. - 2017
The long-term declining role of manufacturing in the U.S. economy – reflecting a shift of the economy after World War II to a post-industrial orientation with an increased emphasis on services – was accelerated by the effects on manufacturing jobs and trade deficits of President Reagan's...
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How SMEs or larger firms and industries’ productivity respond to technology : a panel data study
Sanidas, Elias - In: Spoudai : journal of economics and business 64 (2014) 1, pp. 16-28
impact differentiated between SMEs and larger firms? The present paper answers this question and provides policy … factors on productivity. Thus, overall SMEs as well as large firms behave similarly in terms of the established relationships …
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Digitalization and Exports : A case of Indian Manufacturing MSMEs
Huria, Sugandha; Sharma, Kriti; Jain, Neha; Jose, Ashley - 2022
In this paper, we assess the digitalization of Indian manufacturing Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) by using the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy’s Prowess database consisting of around 800 manufacturing MSMEs for the period 1990-2019. Our primary objective is to answer two...
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Does Innovation Make (SME) Firms More Productive?
Webster, Elizabeth; Palangkaraya, Alfons; Spurling, Tom - 2021
Australian small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), over a five-year period, to estimate the effect of introducing a new product …
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Innovation and Productivity in SMEs - Empirical Evidence for Italy
Hall, Bronwyn H.; Lotti, Francesca; Mairesse, Jacques - 2013
Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not … Italian SMEs from the “Survey on Manufacturing Firms” conducted by Mediocredito-Capitalia covering the period 1995-2003. The … firm’s productivity, especially process innovation. Among SMEs, larger and older firms seem to be less productive …
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Does Innovation Make (SME) Firms More Productive?
Palangkaraya, Alfons; Spurling, Tom; Webster, Elizabeth - 2023
small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), over a five-year period, to estimate the effect of introducing a new product, or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014356363
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Industry 4.0 concepts within the Czech SME manufacturing sector : an empirical assessment of critical success factors
Nwaiwu, Fortune; Duduci, Meri; Chromjakova, Felicita; … - In: Verslas : teorija ir praktika : Vilniaus Gedimino … 21 (2020) 1, pp. 58-70
implementation of an efficient Industry 4.0 process management model in SMEs; the quantitative aspect involved the use of a survey … implementation of Industry 4.0 concepts in Czech manufacturing SMEs. The research limitation is based on the fact that the SMEs … the scientific and practical discourse on Industry 4.0 process management model implementation in SMEs by investigating …
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From productivity to exporting or vice versa? : evidence from the Tunisian manufacturing sector
Ayadi, Mohamed; Mattoussi, Wided - 2014
In this paper, we explore the link between firm productivity and exporting using three firm level datasets of 1323 Tunisian manufacturing firms from 2004 to 2006. In particular, we examine whether more productive firms self-select into export markets, and whether exporters achieve productivity...
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Foreign Manufacturing Multinationals and the Transformation of the Chinese Economy : New Measurements, New Perspectives
Moran, Theodore - 2011
What is the relationship between foreign manufacturing multinational corporations (MNCs) and the expansion of indigenous technological and managerial technological capabilities among Chinese firms? China has been remarkably successful in designing industrial policies, joint venture requirements,...
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Identifying the Drivers for Adoption of RFID Technology : A Study of Manufacturing Organizations
Makhija, Diljeetkaur - 2015
RFID Technology being a real time tracking system is the new era of automation. It has been used in several industries for different applications. However, the cost of implementing RFID system is too high, and achieving the ROI becomes difficult, because of the cost involved. Regardless of the...
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