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Heritage and Firm Survival - An Analysis of German Automobile Spinoffs 1886-1939
Rhein, Kristina von - In: Economics Bulletin 12 (2008) 13, pp. 1-8
be measured in two ways, either in terms of their survival duration or concerning their innovative activity. In this … paper, the survival chances of spinoffs in the German automobile industry regarding the success of their parents will be … Cox regressions show that spinoffs of old parents have better survival chances than those of innovative parents. …
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The Evolution and Determinants of Profitability in Turkish Manufacturing Industry, 1997-2006
Gonenc, Rauf; Yilmaz, Gokhan - Türkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankası - 2007
the responses of enterprises, developments in profit margins on exports and domestic sales and their main determinants … clusters reflect on their growth dynamics: more profitable activities produce, export and create employment more than the …
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A Divergent Path of Industrial Upgrading: Emergence and Evolution of the Mobile Handset Industry in China
Imai, Ken'ichi; Shiu, Jingming - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2007
Starting from almost null in the late 1990s, China's mobile phone handset industry has grown to account for more than 40 percent of the current world production. While export growth has been overwhelmingly led by multi-national corporations (MNCs), increasingly fierce competition in the domestic...
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Ownership Structure, Innovation Process and Competitive Performance: the Case of Italy
Battagion, Maria Rosa; Tajoli, Lucia - KITeS, Centre for Knowledge, Internationalization and … - 1999
The Italian industrial sector is characterized by a number of peculiarities compared to other advanced countries. One of these is the small average size of its firms. This particular model of organization of production, based on the small dimension and often on informal relationships within and...
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Ein einfaches Verfahren zur Berücksichtigung heterogener Preisbildung und Marktmacht auf unvollkommenen Gütermärkten in Produktivitätsschätzungen
Carstensen, Vivian - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Leibniz … - 2003
This paper integrates a generalized monopolistic competition model that states consumer preferences for goods' variety and, hence, heterogeneous price setting behavior into the familiar Cobb-Douglas production function approach. Neglecting the fact of incomplete markets and heterogeneous price...
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Regional Convergence of Income and Labor Productivity in Mexico
Diaz-Bautista, Alejandro - EconWPA - 2005
Economic growth continues to be a major objective of state governments in Mexico. What role do firm location, openness, education, and wage rates play in determining the ability of a state to increase the growth of its economy? This study examines the economic competitiveness of the Mexican...
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Determinantes de la supervivencia de empresas industriales en el área metropolitana de Cali 1994-2003
Martínez, Andrés Felipe - BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA - ECONOMÍA REGIONAL - 2006
Los establecimientos industriales del Área Metropolitana de Cali presentan mayores problemas para consolidarse en los primeros años que siguen a su creación. En este trabajo se analiza el horizonte vital de las empresas de la cohorte de 1994 hasta el año 2003. Los procesos de consolidación...
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Copyright-Based Industries in Arab Countries
Harabi, Najib - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
The paper describes and explains empirically the economic performance of four key copyright-based industries (the book publishing, music sound recording, film production and software industries) in five Arab countries (Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon). Using the Porter (Diamond)...
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Technology and demand mechanism in firm diversification strategies.An experimental method to discriminate the fundamental drivers
Santanera, Elena - Istituto di Ricerca sulla Crescita Economica … - 2013
An essential part of any firm’s corporate strategy is the choice of the business portfolio through which to compete. When the portfolio’s decision involves more than one business, firms are said to implement a diversification strategy, which is put into action through the firms concomitant...
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Trade and productivity: Self-selection or learning-by-exporting in India
Haidar, Jamal Ibrahim - In: Economic Modelling 29 (2012) 5, pp. 1766-1773
Recent literature tried to explain the Indian growth miracle in different ways, ranging from trade liberalization to industrial reforms. Using data on Indian manufacturing firms, this paper analyzes the relationship between firm's productivity and export market participation during 1991–2004....
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