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demand and innovation are the key determinants for firm profitability; second that both technology adoption and R&D concur to …
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This paper examines the causes of manufacturing plant deaths within and across industries in the U.S. from 1977-1997. The effects of international competition from low wage countries, exporting, ownership structure, product diversity, productivity, geography, and plant characteristics are...
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We explore the extent to which the current technological trend, dubbed Industry 4.0, might increase forms of control inside organisations, by focussing on pivotal firms in the so-called Italian Motor Valley currently embracing its adoption. We find that Industry 4.0 technologies open up great...
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This study examines the effect of delivery performance on customer transactions. We propose that different delivery performance dimensions (on-time delivery rate, early delivery inaccuracy, late delivery inaccuracy, and delivery speed) have varying impacts on future customer transaction...
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We provide a novel, supply network-based perspective on inventory productivity and incentives for its improvement. Using data from 2003 to 2019, we find that inventory productivity reduces materially and statistically significantly for firms located upstream in the supply network, and increases...
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The purpose of this exploratory study is the examination of the complex interactions among variables that affect the performance of European manufacturing SMEs by using a hierarchical log linear model. In the present study, firm performance is empirically measured in terms of turnover growth....
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period 2004-05 to 2006-07. Results show that firm size affects current profitability: positively in the Steel and negatively … profitability in Steel but, positive in the other. Bank credit is found negatively significant in both the industries. Interestingly …, the impact of size is affected by firms' market value (Q): size positively affects profitability both in Steel and EE. The …
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Ugandan micro- and small enterprises (MSEs) still perform poorly. The paper utilizes data collected in Uganda in March and April 2003 to analyze the business constraints faced by these MSEs. Using a stratified random sampling, a sample of 265 MSEs were interviewed. The study focuses on the 105...
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In 2015, at the United Nations forum, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were approved to be met by 2030. This research aims to know what has been the behavior of productivity and efficiency of the manufacturing industry in the province of Pichincha, Ecuador, and the relationship with...
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This paper considers the falsification of financial reports at Russian manufacturing enterprises in the period from 2012 to 2019. The factors are associated with the heterogeneity of estimates of falsified financial statements. We investigate the evolution of such reporting during the period...
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