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After many years of large drops in the cost information and communicationtechnology, the evidence on its impact on … productivity growth in non-IT produc-ing sectors continues to be mixed.We propose a framework to study the impactof information and … organizations depend on the cost of communicating andacquiring information. We …nd that while advances in information technologythat …
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, access to, and quality of information provided to marginalized and poor farmers is uneven. This paper aims to ascertain why … farmers are not accessing information and where information gaps exist, despite the variety of extension approaches in India …. Using information provision and access as the basis for analysis, the paper reviews some of the major agricultural extension …
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Since 1932, when Justice Louis Brandeis remarked that in a federal system states can serve as "laboratories" of democracy, political decentralization has been thought to stimulate policy experimentation. We reexamine the political economy behind this belief, using a simple model of voting in...
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agents are by nature traders, others are by nature "givers": traders demand a quid pro quo for information transfer; givers …
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In diesem Diskussionspapier werden die Ergebnisse einer im Mai/Juni 2007 durchgeführten Unternehmensbefragung im Raum Niedersachsen vorgestellt in Bezug auf die Fragestellung, ob sich Unternehmen, die Innovationsförderung erhalten, von nicht geförderten Unternehmen in Bezug auf generelle...
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about how innovation is dealt with in their respective companies. As well as the importance of information, this study … transference of values to the employees. Those innovative companies made careful choices and use means of information, cooperation …
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unprecedented rate. Managers are strategically using information to achieve degrees of internationalisation previously considered … fundamental, antecedent role of internalising appropriate information and translating it into relevant knowledge. Based on case … studies of internationalising firms, we advance a conceptualisation of information internalisation and knowledge creation …
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The decision of how best to appropriate the value of new economic knowledge is reached by individuals within the context of the decision-making process embedded in the principal-agent model and applied to organizations. Because new economic knowledge is not only imperfect but also inherently...
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-tech groups and direct information on each firm’s access to bank credit, high-tech firms are found to be more likely to be credit …
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This article, by Ian A. Stewart, is a review of the recently released Industry Canada research volume Productivity Issues in Canada, edited by Someshwar Rao and Andrew Sharpe. Stewart begins by noting that at over 900 pages and 25 papers the volume represents an important contribution to the...
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