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Some industries are characterised by networks of small and specialized firms with porous boundaries, while in some other industries large diversified hierarchies with concrete boundaries are a more dominant form of organization. Some other industries are combinations of these. In this paper, a...
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This paper explores the importance of Dutch investments in the US manufacturing industry over the period 1950-1995.Until the mid-1970s Dutch investments, though considerable, were primarily concentrated in the petroleum sector and therefore natural-resource seeking in nature. Dutch MNEs have...
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This paper examines the causes for the failure by the Region of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada) to meet its objectives on sustainability. The analysis shows that in such macro matters as sustainability, scale does indeed matter, as do numerous other factors including the degree of trust in...
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Ever since the start of the Industrial Revolution in Britain in the 1760s, innovation and investment have been crucial elements in economic explanations of the dynamics of capitalism. Classical economics recognises that innovation embodied in the form of new machines through fixed capital...
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This paper undertakes a brief evaluation of the trends in the internationalization of innovative activities. We provide a taxonomy of R&D internationalization strategies, and discuss the main relevant theoretical and empirical issues, before discussing the centripetal and centrifugal forces...
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When new technologies are introduced in the production process or when technological change is incorporated in an economic model, it is agreed upon that this reduces the demand for low-skilled labour relative to the demand for high-skilled labour. In general the rationale for this argument is...
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American manufacturing exports became increasingly resource-intensive over the very period, roughly 1880-1920, during which the U.S. ascended to the position of world leadership in manufacturing. This paper challenges the simplistic view that the resource-intensity of manufacturing reflected the...
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