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This study investigates induced productivity effects of firms introducing new environmental technologies. The … literature on within-firm organisational change and productivity suggests that firms can achieve higher productivity gains from … associated with lower productivity, the simultaneous implementation of green technologies and organisational innovations is not. …
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As cities increasingly become centers of economic growth and innovation, there is a need to understand their inner workings and organization in greater detail. We use ge-coded firm-level panel data at the sub-city level to assess the long-standing question whether agglomeration economies derive...
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production to the measurement of quality-adjusted productivity gain. We then consider a system of compatible unit cost functions … inclusive of such productivity improvements in any industry, for which we can solve for the ex-post equilibrium to examine the …
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dispersion, and 2) the correlation between within-firm skill dispersion and productivity is positive in industries with higher …
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on the channels through which tighter environmental regulation affects productivity and innovation. Our findings suggest … particular, market based environmental stringency measures seem to be the most suitable to stimulate innovation and productivity … targets, especially through the channels of innovation and productivity enhancement …
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investigated with productivity levels as a proxy for technological performance and productivity changes as proxy for innovative …
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Organisation capital is one of the key intangible assets of firms, driving innovation and firm performance. Measuring this asset has been notoriously difficult, however. Differently to other intangible assets, firms do not build up organisation capital primarily by monetary investment but rather...
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We study how the timing of technology adoption through capital accumulation shapes firm-level productivity dynamics and … and exploiting the lumpiness of capital accumulation, we document that large investment episodes lead to productivity …
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We do two things in this paper. First, we put forward some elements of a microeconomic theory of technological … production theory, and, more importantly, expanding the notion of the production plan to include the recipe - the complete …
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Wages and productivity represent two of the most relevant variables to consider in economic development. Given the low … productivity levels that emerging countries reveal, the accumulation of productive capabilities and a narrower dispersion across … sectors would enable emerging countries to overcome the middle-income trap. Y et, this positive trend in productivity should …
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