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Impact of information technology investments on firm productivity in peripherals countries : the case of Portugal
Guerreiro, António; Guerreiro, Gertrudes Saudés - 2015
IS/IT investments are seen has having an enormous potential impact on the competitive position of the firm, on its performance, and demand an active and motivated participation of several stakeholder groups. The shortfall of evidence concerning the productivity of IT became known as the...
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Inter-personal and inter-organizational networks in internationalization of SMEs : a bibliometric analysis and review
Bužavaitė, Monika; Korsakienė, Renata - In: Open economics 1 (2018) 1, pp. 94-104
firms are not explored sufficiently while networking and internationalization of SMEs separately are a much more popular …
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The pre-exit performance of German plants : how long is the "shadow of death"?
Fuchs, Michaela; Weyh, Antje - 2014 - Preliminary version
This paper deals with the question whether firms' employment performance in the periods preceding their exit can be regarded as casting a 'Shadow of Death' on their final leaving the market. This aspect is of high relevance for politicians and other decision-makers, because by knowing more about...
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When are localization and urbanization economies important? : evidence from the location of new firms
Jofre-Monseny, Jordi; Marín-López, Raquel; Viladecans … - 2012
urbanization agglomeration patterns of new firm location. To this end, we analyze the location decisions of new manufacturing firms …
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How important are agglomeration effects for plant performance? : empirical evidence for Germany
Fuchs, Michaela; Ludewig, Oliver - 2010 - Preliminary version
manufacturing, we extend our analysis to the services sector. Finally, we are among the first who identify agglomeration effects …
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A hypothesis and an inspection on location polarization of economic activity and population due to economic globalization
Ishikawa, Toshiharu; Wall, Rickard - 2011
In response to economic globalization many manufacturing firms fragment their production processes into small blocs … fragmented processes are characterized by a single manufacturing industry and small retailers. As a result of the globalization … analyzing the distributions of the employees of manufacturing, retailing, finance sectors, and population of all cities in Japan …
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Internationalization of supply chain of apparel industry
Olcay, G. Pelin - 2016
This paper is based on the PhD thesis written by the author. Post-fordist production system has raised since 1970's. Main firms have divided production process into different stages and transferred some stages of the production to either other firms in the same factory or another firms in...
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Escaping the middle-income trap in Southeast Asia : micro evidence on innovation, productivity, and globalization
Lee, Cassey; Narjoko, Dionisius - In: Asian economic policy review : AEPR 10 (2015) 1, pp. 124-147
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Creation and exploitation of knowledge in multinationals : the importance of local and global spillovers for domestic and foreign exporters
Lööf, Hans; Nabavi-Larijani, Pardis - 2013
This paper examines the importance of localized knowledge for innovative exporters by observing their embeddedness in regional innovation systems and international knowledge flow by using trade data on openness. The study distinguishes between new competence creation as proxied by patent...
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A bivariate probit examination of financial and volunteer problems of non-profit sport clubs
Coates, Dennis; Wicker, Pamela; Feiler, Svenja; Breuer, … - In: International journal of sport finance 9 (2014) 3, pp. 230-248
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