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Outsourcing and Structural Change. An Application to Some OECD Countries

Montresor, Sandro; Vittucci Marzetti, Giuseppe - 2007

The paper aims at showing why and how outsourcing and structural change analysis could be bridged in order to obtain more accurate insights of economic dynamics and draw more reliable policy implications. Such a bridge is then set at work by applying a battery of outsourcing measurements to some...

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The Global Automotive Industry Value Chain : What Prospects for Upgrading by Developing Countries

Humphrey, John; Memedovic, Olga - 2015

The paper opens by mapping the changes in the global auto industry in the 1990s, showing how the rapid growth in sales …

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The Global Wood Furniture Value Chain : What Prospects for Upgrading by Developing Countries

Kaplinsky, Raphael; Memedovic, Olga; Morris, Mike; … - 2008

global wood furniture industry and highlights the importance of exports wood furniture products for developing countries and … industry in a middle-income country, South Africa. This expeience is then used to generate a series of generic policy …

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The Global Apparel Value Chain : What Prospects for Upgrading by Developing Countries?

Gereffi, G.; Memedovic, Olga - 2013

strategies that altered the apparel industry over the past decades and changed the conditions for innovation and learning in the … industry. The apparel industry is identified as a buyer-driven value chain that contains three types of lead firms: retailers … industry has intensified as each type of lead firm has developed extensive global sourcing capabilities. While "de …

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Features and problems of business organizations garment industry in Russia

Karpov, Valery; Karsyuk, Elena - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This article analyzes the garment industry as an important sector of the Russian economy. An analysis of the … conclusions that the number of employees in the industry is steadily declining for three decades, light industry in Russia and in …

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Credit Rating Prediction Through Supply Chains : A Machine Learning Approach

Wu, Jing; Zhang, Zhaocheng; Zhou, Sean - 2021

prediction depends on the focal firm’s industry sector, the relationship strength of such links, and the switching costs. Finally …

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Global Recession to Global Recovery : Epoch Strategies for Marketing, Family Business and Entrepreneurship

Chugan, Pawan K.; Pingle, Sameer S. - 2012

Global Recession to Global Recovery: It is well known fact that all good things, as also bad things, come to an end and business cycles pass through good and bad economic times. Economically 2010 was a year of transition from economic recession to recovery. Economies were improving in some...

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The Balance of Power Between Producers and Retailers: a Differentiation Model.

Allain, M.-L. - 1999

This paper argues that the balance of power between producers and retailers depends on the relative degrees of differentiation at the two levels of the vertical structure. The authors propose an extension of Hotelling's model in which two producers, competing in prices with horizontally...

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Governance of Clubs and Firms with Cultural Dimensions.

van den Brink, R.; Ruys, P.H.M.; Semenov, R. - CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg - 1999

The neoclassical way to cope with firms providing services, or with clubs procuring services, is restricted by the lack of institutional features. An institutional approach is introduced that requires a cooperative governance to realize the potential value-production by firms, or to realize the...

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Sources of economic renewal: from the traditional firm to the knowledge firm

Rodriguez-Palenzuela, Diego - 2001

We build on the imperfection of intellectual property rights as the central motivation for the organization of firms. There are several characteristics specific to a theory of the firm grounded on the absence of intellectual property rights: monetary incentive schemes arise naturally as a...

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