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The Stubai Co-Operative : Using Local Roots for Global Competitiveness
Reiner, Elisabeth - 2012
The Stubai Co-operative, founded in 1897 by several craftsmen and steel manufacturing companies located in the Tyrolean … comparably small Stubai Co-operative is able to challenge big players in the iron manufacturing industry, mainly from the US and … the Far East. The Co-operative combines long-lasting local industrial traditions with a process of advanced …
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When High-tech meets Low-tech: Eco-innovation Dynamics and Corporate Strategizing in the Construction Sector
Andersen, Maj Munch - In: EKONOMIAZ 75 (2010) 04, pp. 112-139
In recent years green innovation or “eco-innovation” has grown increasingly to become one of the main drivers of economic development. This is a major change with regard to earlier times, when the environment in general was considered as a burden for businesses. This paper presents an...
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Cuando la alta tecnología se encuentra con la baja tecnología: dinámicas de eco-innovación y estrategia corporativa en el sector de la construcción
Andersen, Maj Munch - In: EKONOMIAZ 75 (2010) 04, pp. 112-139
In recent years green innovation or eco-innovation has grown increasingly to become one of the main drivers of economic development. This is a major change with regard to earlier times, when the environment in general was considered as a burden for businesses. This paper presents an empirical...
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Tacit Collusion under Imperfect Monitoring in the Canadian Manufacturing Industry: An Empirical Study
Resende, Marcelo; Zeidan, Rodrigo M. - CESifo - 2011
The paper undertakes a cross-sectoral analysis of a salient empirical implication of the model of tacit collusion advanced by Abreu et al (1986). Specifically, the prevalence of a first order Markovian process for alternating between price wars and collusive periods is assessed by means of...
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Towards solution based thinking: characteristics of servitization at Hungarian manufacturing companies
Demeter, Krisztina; Szász, Levente - In: Journal for East European Management Studies 18 (2013) 3, pp. 309-335
The main purpose of the article is to describe the servitization process of Hungarian manufacturing companies based on data of the Hungarian Competitiveness research. Servitization aims at supplying a bundle of products and services that offers complete solutions for customers. In this paper we...
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Markets and the non-monotonic relation between productivity and establishment size
Bakhtiari, Sasan - In: Canadian Journal of Economics 45 (2012) 1, pp. 345-372
A model of monopolistic competition is presented in which the relation between the productivity and input size of producers is non-monotonic and bell-shaped. The model predicts that markets matter and the average size of the producers is directly scaled by the size of the market. An indirect...
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Industrial Districts and Innovation: the Limits of the Local Technological Systems
Rolfo, Secondo; Vitali, Giampaolo - Istituto di Ricerca sulla Crescita Economica … - 1997
A new approach of the innovation policies at the local level is concerning the creation of regional innovation systems. In Italy however the district level seems to be more adequate for the public intervention to capture the specific sectorial and local nature of the innovation process. In the...
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Structure and evolution of an industrial district of Piedmont: the production of kitchenware in the Cusio area
Ressico, Alessandra - Istituto di Ricerca sulla Crescita Economica … - 1999
The aim of this paper is to analyse the consequences of market globalisation on a small industrial district of north-western Italy. Industrial firms in the Cusio don't show wide innovation shapes but according to the firm size we could observe different innovation approaches: on one side small...
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Tacit collusion under imperfect monitoring in the Canadian manufacturing industry: An empirical study
Resende, Marcelo; Zeidan, Rodrigo M. - 2011
The paper undertakes a cross-sectoral analysis of a salient empirical implication of the model of tacit collusion advanced by Abreu et al (1986). Specifically, the prevalence of a first order Markovian process for alternating between price wars and collusive periods is assessed by means of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278898
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Fusion in der Stahlbranche: Strukturkrise und Verdrängungswettbewerb auf dem Stahlmarkt?
Döhrn, Roland; Obst, Christian; Simic, André Küster; … - In: ifo Schnelldienst 71 (2018) 02, pp. 3-13
Europas Stahlindustrie leidet unter chinesischer Billigkonkurrenz, fallenden Preisen und hohen Kosten für Energie und Rohstoffe. Zudem machen hohe Überkapazitäten den Produzenten zu schaffen. Wie kann sich die europäische Stahlindustrie gegen die Konkurrenz vor allem aus Asien behaupten?...
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