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The impact of information systems on the efficiency of banks: an empirical investigation

Gupta, Uma G.; Collins, William - In: Industrial Management & Data Systems 97 (1997) 1, pp. 10-16

achieving business goals, improving productivity, and enhancing customer service in banks. …

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Productivity improvements for a small “made‐to‐order” manufacturing environment

Shing Ong, Nan - In: Industrial Management & Data Systems 97 (1997) 7, pp. 251-258

Very little has been written on productivity improvements for a “made‐to‐order” manufacturing environment which is …) philosophies to ensure high productivity gains, small companies on the other hand still face specific problems in their production …

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Factors Affecting Employment in the Arabian Gulf Region, 1975–85

Looney, Robert E. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 19 (1992) 2, pp. 43-59

agencies will be critical to restoring increases in productivity and ultimately expanded rates of non‐oil income. …

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Lean production and disability

Spithoven, A.H.G.M. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 28 (2001) 9, pp. 725-741

Since the early 1980s, Dutch productivity rates have been driven by a shift from traditional mass production firms to … lean production. It slightly counteracted the generally acknowledged procyclical productivity rates; instead of working …

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Performance of SOEs: evidence on Botswana Telecommunications Corporation

Mbo, Mbako; Adjasi, Charles - In: International Journal of Social Economics 44 (2017) 7, pp. 960-979

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate fundamental performance drivers in a state-owned enterprise (SOE) in the context of organizational theories. Design/methodology/approach This paper is based on a case analysis investigating how several factors, considered in the context of...

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Sunset for the American Dream

Taylor, Kenneth Bruce - In: International Journal of Social Economics 44 (2017) 12, pp. 1639-1653

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present and explore the deleterious socioeconomic consequence of six interrelated trends upon the sustainability of the personal portion of America’s social contract. Design/methodology/approach Neoclassical economic growth theory is used to frame the...

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Economic Impacts of Cultural Diversity in the Netherlands: Productivity, Utility, and Sorting

Bakens, Jessie; Mulder, Peter; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

interactions-based productivity, consumption amenities and sorting of heterogeneous home owners while controlling for interactions …

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Multiple Equilibria and Minimum Wages in Labor Markets with Informational Frictions and Heterogeneous Production Technologies

Berg, Gerard J. van den - Tinbergen Instituut - 1999

It is often argued that a mandatory minimum wage is binding only if the wage density displays a spike at it. In this paper we analyze a model with wage setting, search frictions, and heterogeneous production technologies, in which imposition of a minimum wage affects wages even though, after...

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Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier: Firm-level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands

Bartelsman, Eric; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Peters, Bettina - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the … conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14 … are more dispersed in the Netherlands. In both countries, we observe non-linearities in the productivity effects of …

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Production Externalities in the Wood Furniture Industry in Central Java

Andadari, Roos K.; Groot, Henri L.F. de; Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

This paper exploits micro firm level data to examine the impact of spatial clustering and links to foreign buyer networks on firm performance in the wood furniture industry in Central Java, Indonesia. The analysis is based on an annual manufacturing survey. We identify the impact of...

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