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The influence of contextual factors on the implementation of lean practices: An analysis of furniture industries
Abu, Falah; Gholami, Hamed; Štreimikienė, Dalia; … - In: Amfiteatru Economic Journal 22 (2020) 55, pp. 867-881
Notwithstanding the research attention given to the implementation of lean practices, particularly in the developed countries, its adoption in the furniture industry in emerging economies is not promising and confined to a handful of studies only. The purpose of this study is to examine the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014462027
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The influence of contextual factors on the implementation of lean practices : an analysis of furniture industries
Abu, Falah; Gholami, Hamed; Norhayati Zakuan; Muhamad … - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 22 (2020) 55, pp. 867-881
Notwithstanding the research attention given to the implementation of lean practices, particularly in the developed countries, its adoption in the furniture industry in emerging economies is not promising and confined to a handful of studies only. The purpose of this study is to examine the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012656440
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What do firms know? What do they produce? A new look at the relationship between patenting profiles and patterns of product diversification
Dosi, Giovanni; Grazzi, Marco; Moschella, Daniele - 2015
In this work we analyze the relationship between the patterns of firm diversification, if any, across product lines and … scope, their relationships, the size-scaling and coherence properties of diversification itself. Our analysis shows that … technologies increase log-linearly with firm size. And the directions of diversification themselves display coherence between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335939
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What do firms know? What do they produce? A new look at the relationship between patenting profiles and patterns of product diversification
Dosi, Giovanni; Grazzi, Marco; Moschella, Daniele - 2015
In this work we analyze the relationship between the patterns of firm diversification, if any, across product lines and … scope, their relationships, the size-scaling and coherence properties of diversification itself. Our analysis shows that … technologies increase log-linearly with firm size. And the directions of diversification themselves display coherence between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010502699
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Multinational Firms, Internal Capital Markets, and the Value of Global Diversification
Sturgess, Jason - 2012
on whether global diversification is valuable is inconclusive. This paper uses detailed FDI data for 251 UK multinational … firms and 4,676 subsidiaries to show that multinational firms exhibit, on average, a global diversification premium compared … multinational firms' investment and global diversification have significantly increased over the past three decades …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013114610
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Multinational Firms, International Diversification, Value, and Governance
Sturgess, Jason - 2012
, on average, an international diversification premium of 19%. Further, the value premium is increasing in the difference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013116775
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What Do Firms Know? What Do They Produce? A New Look at the Relationship between Patenting Profiles and Patterns of Product Diversification
Dosi, Giovanni - 2015
In this work we analyze the relationship between the patterns of firm diversification, if any, across product lines and … scope, their relationships, the size-scaling and coherence properties of diversification itself. Our analysis shows that … technologies increase log-linearly with firm size. And the directions of diversification themselves display coherence between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022886
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What do firms know? What do they produce? : a new look at the relationship between patenting profiles and patterns of product diversification
Dosi, Giovanni; Grazzi, Marco; Moschella, Daniele - 2015
In this work we analyze the relationship between the patterns of firm diversification, if any, across product lines and … scope, their relationships, the size-scaling and coherence properties of diversification itself. Our analysis shows that … technologies increase log-linearly with firm size. And the directions of diversification themselves display coherence between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011715822
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Growth processes of Italian manufacturing firms
Coad, Alex; Rao, Rekha; Tamagni, Federico - 2010
This paper presents a multidimensional empirical analysis of firm growth. Exploiting census data on Italian manufacturing firms, 1989-1997, we estimate a reduced-form VAR to analyze the co-evolution of employment growth, sales growth, growth of profits and labour productivity growth. Our main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328503
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Firm growth and productivity growth: evidence from a panel VAR
Coad, Alex; Broekel, Tom - 2007
This paper offers new insights into the processes of firm growth by applying a reducedform vector autoregression (VAR) model to longitudinal panel data on French manufacturing firms. We observe the co-evolution of key variables such as growth of employment, sales, and gross operating surplus, as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263848