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DOES AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AFFECT PRODUCTIVITY IN THE INDIAN RAILWAYS?

Deshpande, Ashwini; Weisskopf, Thomas E. - Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics - 2010

skilled positions – comes at a cost of reduced efficiency. We undertake a systematic empirical analysis of productivity in the … force have reduced productivity. Indeed, some of our results suggest that the opposite is true, providing tentative support … for the claim that greater labour force diversity boosts productivity. …

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Digitalization : productivity

Mollins, Jeffrey; Taskin, Temel - 2023

We examine the relationship between digitalization and productivity, the factors that influence this relationship, and … how digitalization’s effect on productivity could change firm behaviour. …

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Antidumping Protection hurts Exporters: Firm-level evidence from France

KONINGS, Jozef; VANDENBUSSCHE, Hylke - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2009

find that the productivity of exporters falls while that of non-exporters rises during antidumping protection. We offer a …

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Linkages between Technology Choice and Exporting: Evidence from Argentina

Schmidt, Gabriela; Trofimenko, Natalia - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

This paper aids our understanding of the link between innovation and exporting behavior by detailing how firms may purposefully decide on the source country for the imported innovation and the market that they ultimately serve. We argue that firms who invest in the state-of-the-art technologies...

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CAN DESTRUCTIVE NETWORK ACTIVITIES PUSH AN ECONOMY TO A LOWER LEVEL OF SPECIALIZATION? A THEORETICAL ILLUSTRATION

WEN, MEI; CHENG, WENLI - In: Division of Labor & Transaction Costs (DLTC) 03 (2011) 02, pp. 57-67

a developed market economy to a lower level of division of labour, thereby causing losses in both productivity and real …

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Innovation, productivity gains and the evolution of market structure

Amendola, Mario; Gaffard, Jean-Luc; Musso, Patrick - Sciences économiques, Sciences Po - 2006

productivity gains. In fact, the viability of innovation processes cannot be dissociated from the way market structures emerge and …

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LOS PROCESOS CONCURSALES EN SITUACIÓN DE CRISIS: CARACTERÍSTICAS DE SU APLICACIÓN A LAS SOCIEDADES COOPERATIVAS / THE CONCURSAL PROCEDURE IN A CHRISIS SITUATION: CHARACTERISTICS OF...

CAMPO, Javier ITURRIOZ DEL - In: Articulos de REVESCO Revista de Estudios Cooperativos, Extraordinario, pp. 134-159

Los concursos de acreedores son procesos para proceder a la solución de situaciones de insolvencia, tanto en casos en los que se produce la continuidad futura de la empresa como en aquellos en los que su situación económico financiera aconseje su disolución. El procedimiento concursal está...

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Organizing for Synergies

Garicano, Luis - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010

Large companies are usually organized into business units, yet some activitiesare almost always centralized in a company-wide functional unit. We firstshow that organizations endogenously create an incentive conflict between functionalmanagers (who desire excessive standardization) and...

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INTELLIGENCE FAILURES: AN ORGANIZATIONAL ECONOMICS PERSPECTIVE

Garicano, Luis; Posner, Richard A. - University <Chicago, Ill.> / Department of Economics - 2005

Two recent failures of the United States intelligence system have led to thecreation of high-level investigative commissions. The failure to prevent theterrorist attacks of 9/11 prompted the creation of the 9/11 Commission, andthe mistaken belief that Saddam Hussein had retained weapons of...

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Small and medium-sized enterprises, business demography and European socio-economic model: Does the paradigm really converge?

Andrei, Jean Vasile; Chivu, Luminita; Gheorghe, Ileana … - In: Journal of Risk and Financial Management 14 (2021) 2, pp. 1-29

considering labor productivity as an endogenous variable. Our preliminary analysis shows considerable differences in business …

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