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Manufacturing Digitalization in the U.S. and its Policy Implications for Korea
Kim, Inchul; Cho, Jaehan; Jung, Sunin; Kim, Hanhin; … - 2023
The purpose of this report is twofold. First, to describe the digitalization of modern manufacturing and U.S. businesses' adoption of digital technologies and identify the implications for policy carried by these trends. And second, to provide recommendations for competition policy in Korea...
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Tracking Firm Use of AI in Real Time : A Snapshot from the Business Trends and Outlook Survey
Bonney, Kathryn; Breaux, Cory; Buffington, Cathy; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Timely and accurate measurement of AI use by firms is both challenging and crucial for understanding the impacts of AI on the U.S. economy. We provide new, real-time estimates of current and expected future use of AI for business purposes based on the Business Trends and Outlook Survey for...
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Blind spots of dynamic capabilities : a systems theoretic perspective
Burisch, Robert; Wohlgemuth, Veit - In: Journal of innovation & knowledge : JIK 1 (2016) 2, pp. 109-116
Dynamic capabilities remain one of the most popular, but also one of the most controversial topics in current knowledge and innovation research. This study exposes strengths and weaknesses of existing conceptualizations of dynamic capabilities by using a systems theoretic lens. Systems theory...
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Global production with export platforms
Tintelnot, Felix - 2014
of their foreign sales. In this paper, I examine the determinants of multinational firms' location and production … decisions and the welfare implications of multinational production. The few existing quantitative general equilibrium models …, I calibrate the model to data on trade and multinational production for twelve European and North American countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010419811
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Who Do Unions Target? Unionization Over the Life-Cycle of U.S. Businesses
Dinlersoz, Emin - 2014
What type of businesses do unions target for organizing? A dynamic model of the union organizing process is constructed to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity and decides which ones to organize and when. An establishment becomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047857
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Who Do Unions Target? Unionization Over the Life-Cycle of U.S. Businesses
Dinlersoz, Emin - 2014
What type of businesses do unions target for organizing and when? A dynamic model of the union organizing process is constructed to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity, and decides which ones to organize and when. An...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057220
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Do Firms Mitigate Climate Impact on Employment? Evidence from US Heat Shocks
Acharya, Viral V.; Bhardwaj, Abhishek; Tomunen, Tuomas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
How do firms mitigate the impact of rising temperatures on employment? Using establishment-level data, we show that firms operating in multiple counties in the United States respond to heat shocks by reducing employment in the affected locations and increasing it in unaffected locations, whereas...
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Outsourcing of service areas as a method of increasing the effectiveness of a company
Ziółkiewicz, Marek - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 7 (2011) 2, pp. 45-56
An increasing number of companies, in order to improve their competitive stance on the market, decide to outsource some of their service functions to external subjects. Outsourcing of this type of activity is frequently regarded as a strategic decision. A properly conducted outsourcing project...
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The influence of organisational culture on the total quality management programme performance
Roldán, José L.; Leal-Rodríguez, Antonio L.; … - In: Investigaciones europeas de Dirección y Economía de … 18 (2012) 3, pp. 183-189
This paper aims to examine the relationships between different types of cultures and effectiveness in Total Quality Management (TQM) implementation. Using Cameron’s framework, we have tested the connection between a quality culture taxonomy and TQM programme performance using data from a...
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Using U.S. Business Registry Data to Corroborate Corporate Identity : Case Study of the Legal Entity Identifier
Treacy, William; Okrent, Scott - 2023
This paper offers a fresh perspective on fundamental issues in using official incorporation records to corroborate the identity of corporate entities by comparing two publicly-available sets of information, namely, business registry incorporation records and reference data from the Legal Entity...
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