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The logistics industry in Europe is under constant scrutiny due to the impact of digitalizing business processes and … technologies. These suggestions serve as a point of reference for various organizations in the logistics industry. In addition …, additive manufacturing coincides with the advances in Industry 4.0 to achieve optimal results. As the industry continues to …
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Bank loans through bank-firm relationship is expected to enhance the performance of firms owing to the possession of private information on the firms that is not readily available to other outside investors. This special relationship is deemed to be very important than equity financing in...
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This paper compares outsourcing processes in France, Italy and Japan in two types of firms, large firms and also small firms. It is shown that outsourcing has increased over the last two decades in both small and large firms in all three countries and that mainly in the last decade the tendency...
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This article reviews the main theories of the firm from the strategic management perspective. A theory of the firm intents to explain the nature and scope of a firm. We conclude that the different theories of the firm can be classified following the Coase guidelines, that explain the existence...
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industry attractiveness and corporation effects for explaining business performance, and that geographic location matters …
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This paper investigates the relationship between economic reforms and constitutional transition, which has been neglected by many transition economists. It is argued that assessment of reform performance might be very misleading if it is not recognized that economic reforms are just a small part...
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This paper examines industry-level responses of manufacturing employment in the context of globalization using a large …
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Using nationally representative survey data of Indian manufacturing enterprises spanning the period 1995–2006, we analyze the link between formal sector subcontracting and informal sector employment. A novelty in our analysis is that this relationship is allowed to differ between modern and...
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and unions at low levels of organization. The policy weakened the industry-wide collective bargaining system, which sets … working conditions for all firms in an industry. This paper employs newly developed quantile regression approaches to … investigate the effect of union practices on productivity within the context of the reform. The findings show that (i) industry …
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