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Analysis of the Economic Behavioral Growth, Technological Change and Productivity in Oman
Mohamed, Issam A.W - 2012
The present paper analyzes the impacts of total labor productivity and efficiency in Oman State. As a Gulf state it has … industries relative to abundant fishing potentials, labor productivity and technical changes in addition to available capital are …
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Technological Change in Developing Countries, Efficiency, Productivity and the Economic Theory
Mohamed, Issam A.W. - 2012
of production and correlations with technical changes are measured by Total Factor Productivity as an expression of … Technical Efficiency to assess Total Factor Productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110272
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Import competition from and offshoring to China: A curse or blessing for firms?
Mion, Giordano; Zhu, Linke - In: Journal of International Economics 89 (2013) 1, pp. 202-215
We use Belgian manufacturing firm-level data over the period 1996–2007 to analyze the impact of imports from different origins on firm employment growth, exit, and skill upgrading. For this purpose, we use both industry-level and firm-level imports by country of origin and further distinguish...
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Do business groups help or hinder technological progress in emerging markets? : evidence from India
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Zhou, Ying - 2014
Business groups, which are ubiquitous in emerging market economies, balance the advantages of characteristics such as internal capital markets with the disadvantages such as inefficient internal distribution of resources and suppression of technological and other forms of innovativeness. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230497
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Do Business Groups Help or Hinder Technological Progress in Emerging Markets? Evidence from India
Bhaumik, Sumon K. - 2014
Business groups, which are ubiquitous in emerging market economies, balance the advantages of characteristics such as internal capital markets with the disadvantages such as inefficient internal distribution of resources and suppression of technological and other forms of innovativeness. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013060622
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Evolving Human Resource (HR) Management to Cope with Disruptive Innovation Technologies
Ray, Jeffrey - 2015
Businesses are responding to the threat of disruptive innovation technologies by upgrading their capabilities and practices. These upgrades ensure implementing organizations become more adaptable, and flexible, with respect to their ability to alter business strategies in response to changing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014163931
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Do Business Groups Help or Hinder Technological Progress in Emerging Markets? Evidence from India
Bhaumik, Sumon K.; Zhou, Ying - 2014
Business groups, which are ubiquitous in emerging market economies, balance the advantages of characteristics such as internal capital markets with the disadvantages such as inefficient internal distribution of resources and suppression of technological and other forms of innovativeness. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014148609
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Skills, management practices and technology adoption in Greek manufacturing firms
Anyfantaki, Sofia; Caloghirou, Yannis; Dellis, Konstantinos - 2022
: skills and management practices. Both areas are key requirements to achieve robust productivity growth, in which Greece has … occupations. We also corroborate previous findings about the negative relationship between skills mismatch and firm productivity … and explore the quality of these practices and their association with productivity. Finally, we use information from a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014077761
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Organisational change and the productivity effects of green technology adoption
Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha; Veugelers, Reinhilde - 2016 - This version January 2016
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411433
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Technological Change, Wages and Firm Size
van den Brink, René - 2015
We model a corporate firm in a competitive market setting, consisting of a production technology, a hierarchical organization structure, a cost efficiency parameter, and an internal pay-system. The depth of the firm determines its output and is set by profit maximization under the participation...
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