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Trade liberalization and the geography of production : agglomeration, concentration and dispersal in Indonesia's manufacturing industry

Sjöberg, Örjan (contributor); … - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

lead to increased regional inequalities. We examine the spatial concentration of manufacturing in Indonesia between 1980 … and 1996, a period when Indonesia substantially liberalized its trade regime. The high concentration has not decreased and … spatial concentration in Indonesia and conclude that a host of factors including the spatial configuration affects the outcome …

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What Impact Does Intellectual Property Have on the Business Performance of Technology Firms?

Willoughby, Kelvin - 2014

This paper reports the results of an original empirical study of the relationship between intellectual property and the financial performance of technology firms in the bioscience-technology industries. The study found a statistically significant positive relationship between the firms'...

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Environmental and Managerial Antecedents of Strategic Posture and Performance of Small Firms : An Empirical Analysis

Roxas, Banjo - 2009

A number of theories postulate the influence of industry factors and various forms of organizational capital on the strategies and performance of small firms. This study is an empirical test of such assertion by examining how industry and firm-related factors as well as managerial attributes...

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Information Technology and Process Performance : An Empirical Investigation of the Interaction between IT and Non-IT Resources

Jeffers, Patrick I.; Muhanna, Waleed A.; Nault, Barrie R. - 2016

Drawing on the resource-based view, we propose a configurational perspective of how IT assets and capabilities affect firm performance. Our premise is that IT assets and IT managerial capabilities are components in organizational design, and, as such, their impact can only be understood by...

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Measuring Organizational Performance as a Dependent Variable : Towards Methodological Best Practice

Richard, Pierre J.; Devinney, Timothy M.; Yip, George S.; … - 2015

Organizational performance is one of the most important constructs in management research. We review the contexts that frame organizational performance as a dependent variable with specific emphasis on how it is operationalized and measured. The research contexts of past studies are firmly...

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Firm Survival and Financial Development : Evidence from a Panel of Emerging Asian Economies

Tsoukas, Serafeim - 2012

Using a panel of five Asian economies - Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand - over the period 1995 …

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Highway to Success : The Impact of the Golden Quadrilateral Project for the Location and Performance of Indian Manufacturing

Ghani, Syed Ejaz; Goswami, Arti Grover; Kerr, William - 2012

We investigate the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on the Indian organized manufacturing sector using enterprise data. The GQ project upgraded the quality and width of 5,846 km of roads in India. We use a difference-in-difference estimation strategy to compare non-nodal...

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Is India’s Manufacturing Sector Moving Away from Cities?

Ghani, Syed Ejaz; Goswami, Arti Grover; Kerr, William - 2012

This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal and informal sectors. We find that plants in the formal sector are moving away from urban and into rural locations, while the informal sector is moving from rural to urban...

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Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India

Ghani, Syed Ejaz; Kerr, William; O'Connell, Stephen D. - 2012

We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. We focus on the presence of incumbent female-owned businesses and their role in promoting higher subsequent female entrepreneurship relative to male entrepreneurship. We find...

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From Russia with Love : The Impact of Relocated Firms on Incumbent Survival

Falck, Oliver - 2012

We identify the impact of local firm concentration on incumbent performance in a historic setting that has quasi-experimental characteristics. When Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool industry fled the Soviet-occupied zone to prevent expropriation. We show that...

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