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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012215284
While Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have been exposed to frequent external shocks in the past, the Coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is like no other, representing the largest economic shock experienced globally in decades. The objective of this paper is to...
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In the paper, the sources of productivity growth are investigated by an empirical analysis with micro data for West …. The empirical results reveal that innovative firms exhibit more productivity increases. Large firms exhibit more … productivity increases as compared with small firms, ceteris paribus, which hints towards scale economies at the firm level …
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the productivity effect of three strategies in new public management: corporatisation, outsourcing, and partial … privatisation. Firm-level productivity is estimated from production data using a control function approach. As most of the firms are … outsourcing and corporatisation positively impact productivity, while partial privatisation does not increase productivity. …
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productivity (TFP) growth in China. Our primary goal is to test Hicks' induced innovation hypothesis by examining whether technical …
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We do two things in this paper. First, we put forward some elements of a microeconomic theory of technological evolution. This involves adding nascent (essentially undiscovered) technologies to the existing technologies of neoclassical production theory, and, more importantly, expanding the...
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investigating the actual productivity change and its components — pure efficiency change, scale efficiency change and technological … Malmquist Productivity Index (Zelenyuk in Eur J Oper Res 174:1076–1086, 2006) and the bootstrap techniques (Simar and Wilson in … respond to the financial crisis with productivity improvements and, in both cases, this improvement is driven primarily by a …
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