In production economies, the extent to which non-equilibria are blocked dependson specific rules that allocate authority among shareholders, because a blocking coalition’sresources are affected by the firms it jointly owns with outsiders. Based on anotion of stochastic blocking, we extend...

In production economies, the extent to which non-equilibria are blocked dependson the allocation of control rights among shareholders, because a blocking coalition’sresources are affected by the firms it jointly owns with outsiders. We formulate a notionof blocking that takes such...

In seinem 1978 erschienenen Aufsatz "Überlegungen zum Inhalt des Fachs »Produktionswirtschaftslehre«" forderte ZÄPFEL den Einbezug der Leistungserstellungnichtmaterieller Güter - worunter er Dienstleistungen versteht - in die Produktionswirtschaftslehresowie die Erstellung von Typologien,...

This paper examines how the effort choices of workers within the same firm interact witheach other. In contrast to the existing literature, we show that workers can affect theproductivity of their co-workers based on income maximization considerations, rather thanrelying on behavioral...

How can we measure and compare the relative performance of production units?If input and output variables are one dimensional, then the simplest way is tocompute efficiency by calculating and comparing the ratio of output and inputfor each production unit. This idea is inappropriate though, when...

Fahrstuhl, Aufzug oder Lift? - schon allein diese Frage lässt bei Aufzugstechnikernund Branchenexperten Emotionen hochkommen.1 Der Fahrstuhl inder Fachwelt ein verpönter Begriff - ist sowohl in der Alltagssprache als auchim Wirtschaftsteil der Tageszeitungen eine geläufige und unverdächtige...

Diese Arbeit analysiert die Verteilung von technischer Effizienz innerhalb von Branchen des Verarbeitenden Gewerbes. Die technische Effizienz wird als fir-menspezifischer fixer Effekt im Rahmen einer deterministischen Frontier-Pro-duktionsfunktion ermittelt. Als Grundlage hierfür dienen Angaben...

The purpose of this paper is to test the possible catalysing role of in-house R&D in fostering the complementarity of innovative inputs on a sample of 3045 manufacturing firms drawn from the third Italian Community Innovation Survey (1998-2000). The interactions between four different sources of...

This paper attempts to develop a spatial model of economic growth in which technology and externalities are assumed to be accountable for production in geographical space. Linking externalities to the extent of intensity of production across locations in continuous space, we introduce spatial...

This paper discusses the determinants of three alternative measures of innovative output by looking at firm's own formal R&D activities and at the acqusition of external technology (TA) in its embodied and disembodied components. These input-output relationships are also discussed by...