International trade is considered a vehicle for technology diffusion, which in turn can induce productivity growth. Particularly, trade may give domestic firms access to a larger variety and/or better quality of intermediate or capital inputs in which new technologies are embodied. However, the...

We relate technological adoption (of different technologies) with income inequality. We discovered that some technologies such as aviation, cell phones, electric production, internet, telephone, and TV are skill-complementary in raising inequality. We constructed standardized indexes of...

This article examines trends and patterns of intra-regional foreign direct investment (FDI) in South Asia, with a focus on the potential for integrating production processes among countries in the region through further trade and investment policy reforms. The empirical evidence pieced together...

Digital is the new normal today, the digitally transformation allowing step by step a closer connection with customers, and accordingly answer to the new requirements of the supply chain management. The rules of engagement are changed by the digital lives of customers, the digital leaders...

This paper analyses strategic and operational e-commerce adoption of companies in financial services and textile manufacturing sectors in Turkey at theoretical and empirical levels. Data was collected from 110 firms. Results support the propositions of tested theories (resource-based view and...

The realization of investments into the long-run growth rate of GDP requires the institutions of industrial policy, which would ensure search and implementation of its effective recipes. Such institutions and recipes are discussed in the article. Principles of effective governance for...

The interactive implementation of agents’ intentional actions generates new combinations that are at the base of structural change and complexity and produce unexpected consequences. An interesting case of study is provided by the absorption of new technology strategies for development. A...

During the last decades, wage inequality in Germany has considerably increased both within and across regions. Building on concepts of the task-based approach, this paper studies whether and to what extent these developments are driven by technological change. We present novel evidence that...

Business incubation encourages new business formation and offers the potential to improve emerging market economies. Business incubation is a system of routines for creating and improving survival rates and growth of new businesses. Incubation originated in developed economies and is now...

This paper builds an externality-based model with physical and R&D capital, proves the linearity of technology functions, and derives two measures of spillovers from the relative differences between social and private rates of return. China¡¯s regional empiric studies exhibit a reverse...