2024-03-28T20:02:35Z
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/cgi/oai2
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:538
2019-09-27T00:38:45Z
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7375626A656374733D46:4631:463134
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/538/
The impact of trade with China and India on Argentina’s manufacturing employment
Castro, Lucio
Olarreaga, Marcelo
Saslavsky, Daniel
F17 - Trade Forecasting and Simulation
F14 - Empirical Studies of Trade
F16 - Trade and Labor Market Interactions
L60 - General
F15 - Economic Integration
For many in Latin America, the increasing participation of China and India in international markets is seen as a looming shadow of two ‘mighty giants’ on the region’s manufacturing sector. Are they really mighty giants when it comes to their impact on manufacturing employment? This paper attempts to answer this question estimating the effects of trade with China and India on Argentina’s industrial employment. We use a dynamic econometric model and industry level data to estimate the effects of trade with China and India on the level of employment in Argentina’s manufacturing sector. Results suggest that trade with China and India only had a small negative effect on industrial employment, even in a period of swift trade liberalization like the nineties.
2006-10-20
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/538/1/MPRA_paper_538.pdf
Castro, Lucio and Olarreaga, Marcelo and Saslavsky, Daniel (2006): The impact of trade with China and India on Argentina’s manufacturing employment.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:1231
2019-10-01T05:40:12Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D4F:4F34:4F3437
7375626A656374733D44:4432:443234
7375626A656374733D43:4332:433232
7375626A656374733D4F:4F35:4F3533
7375626A656374733D4C:4C36:4C3630
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1231/
Globalization and Structural Changes in the Indian Industrial Sector: An Analysis of Production Functions
Mishra, SK
O47 - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth ; Aggregate Productivity ; Cross-Country Output Convergence
D24 - Production ; Cost ; Capital ; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity ; Capacity
C22 - Time-Series Models ; Dynamic Quantile Regressions ; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models ; Diffusion Processes
O53 - Asia including Middle East
L60 - General
In 1991 India chose to open her economy and formulated the New Economic Policy (NEP). Under the structural adjustment and reform programmes, the NEP aimed at promoting growth by eliminating supply bottlenecks that hinder competitiveness, efficiency and dynamism in the economic system
This study investigates into the structural changes in the manufacturing sector of India brought about by liberalization and globalization of the economy. Structural changes in terms of employment of labour and capital, indicated by replacement of the former by the latter, and changes in returns-to-scale have been examined by estimating CES, Zellner-Revankar, Transcendental and Diewert production functions. State-wise data for 1990-91 and 2003-04 have been analyzed.
The findings have indicated that the rise in industrial output during the reference period is accountable to substitution of capital for labour in almost all states. In the pre-globalization period the industries experienced increasing returns to scale. Globalization has given way to diminishing returns to scale. Along with a rise in industrial output, globalization has led to a decline in regional disparities in terms of population-deflated indices of employment of manpower and capital, and the resultant output.
2006-12-20
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1231/1/MPRA_paper_1231.pdf
Mishra, SK (2006): Globalization and Structural Changes in the Indian Industrial Sector: An Analysis of Production Functions.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:1333
2019-09-29T06:53:24Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D4F:4F34:4F3437
7375626A656374733D44:4432:443234
7375626A656374733D4C:4C36:4C3630
7375626A656374733D4F:4F35:4F3533
7375626A656374733D43:4332:433232
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1333/
Globalization and Structural Changes in the Indian Industrial Sector: An Analysis of Production Functions
Mishra, SK
O47 - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth ; Aggregate Productivity ; Cross-Country Output Convergence
D24 - Production ; Cost ; Capital ; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity ; Capacity
L60 - General
O53 - Asia including Middle East
C22 - Time-Series Models ; Dynamic Quantile Regressions ; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models ; Diffusion Processes
In 1991 India chose to open her economy and formulated the New Economic Policy (NEP). Under the structural adjustment and reform programmes, the NEP aimed at promoting growth by eliminating supply bottlenecks that hinder competitiveness, efficiency and dynamism in the economic system
This study investigates into the structural changes in the manufacturing sector of India brought about by liberalization and globalization of the economy. Structural changes in terms of employment of labour and capital, indicated by replacement of the former by the latter, and changes in returns-to-scale have been examined by estimating CES, Zellner-Revankar, Transcendental, Diewert and Bruno's production functions. State-wise data for 1990-91 and 2003-04 have been analyzed.
The findings have indicated that the rise in industrial output during the reference period is accountable to substitution of capital for labour in almost all states. The elasticity of substitution has declined for most of the states. In the pre-globalization period the industries experienced increasing returns to scale. Globalization has given way to diminishing returns to scale. Along with a rise in industrial output, globalization has led to a decline in regional disparities in terms of population-deflated indices of employment of manpower and capital, and the resultant output.
2006-12-20
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1333/1/MPRA_paper_1333.pdf
Mishra, SK (2006): Globalization and Structural Changes in the Indian Industrial Sector: An Analysis of Production Functions.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:1774
2019-09-27T00:47:12Z
7374617475733D707562
7375626A656374733D4C:4C35:4C3532
7375626A656374733D4C:4C32:4C3232
7375626A656374733D4C:4C36:4C3630
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1774/
Localización de la industria manufacturera en Colombia 1990-1999
Toro González, Daniel
L52 - Industrial Policy ; Sectoral Planning Methods
L22 - Firm Organization and Market Structure
L60 - General
This article analyzes factors which, in light of the classical industrial location theory, account for the location of manufacturing industries in Colombia. The document shows how it is that agglomeration economies represent the paramount determiner which explains the localition choices of firms. The study was based upon data stemming from the Yearly Manufacture Survey through the use of 4-digit Standard International Industrial Classification disaggregation for Colombia’s 8 top metropolitan areas over the 1990-1999 term. The pattern, estimated by means of data panels, shows the effect exerted by variables such as work-related costs, land prices, taxpaying, income and agglomeration economies upon the location choices of manufacturing industries.
2004-05
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1774/1/MPRA_paper_1774.pdf
Toro González, Daniel (2004): Localización de la industria manufacturera en Colombia 1990-1999. Published in: Economía & Región , Vol. Vol.1, No. No.2 (November 2004): pp. 5-39.
es
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:1859
2019-10-02T04:45:18Z
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7375626A656374733D4C:4C31:4C3133
7375626A656374733D4C:4C36:4C3630
7375626A656374733D4C:4C31:4C3131
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1859/
Lower bounds of concentration in a small open economy
Ilmakunnas, Pekka
L13 - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
L60 - General
L11 - Production, Pricing, and Market Structure ; Size Distribution of Firms
We examine how Sutton’s “bounds” approach works in a small country where industries
have relatively high export and import intensities. Import competition is used as an
indicator for the degree of competition in the low sunk cost industries. The bounds are
estimated as stochastic frontiers, where observable industry characteristics, export
intensity and entry barriers, are allowed to affect the mean and variance of the deviations from the frontier. In accordance with the theory, high R&D intensity industries have a lower bound for concentration, which is higher than that for low sunk cost intensity industries. For high advertising industries the theory does not hold as well. High import competition leads to a higher bound in the low sunk cost industries.
2006-09
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1859/1/MPRA_paper_1859.pdf
Ilmakunnas, Pekka (2006): Lower bounds of concentration in a small open economy.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:2811
2019-09-26T22:37:19Z
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7375626A656374733D49:4932:493231
7375626A656374733D4C:4C36:4C3630
7375626A656374733D4F:4F31:4F3135
7375626A656374733D49:4932:493230
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2811/
Educación, experiencia y especialización manufacturera en la frontera norte de México
Mendoza, Jorge Eduardo
I21 - Analysis of Education
L60 - General
O15 - Human Resources ; Human Development ; Income Distribution ; Migration
I20 - General
With the establishment of the North American Free Trade Agreement (TLCAN) the northern region manufacturing sector of Mexico exhibited a fast growth during the nineties. This paper seeks to estimate the effects of schooling, labor experience and specialization on labor maquiladora income in the cities of Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez. A weighted LS model was established, using labor earning as the dependent variable, and experience schooling and specialization as the explanatory variables. The results showed that in the northern cities both schooling and experience resulted in higher labor income, particularly in intensive capital and technological industries. The coefficient of specialization was higher in Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez than in the rest of the cities included.
2002
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2811/1/MPRA_paper_2811.pdf
Mendoza, Jorge Eduardo (2002): Educación, experiencia y especialización manufacturera en la frontera norte de México. Published in: Comercio Exterior , Vol. Vol. 5, No. no. 4 (April 2002): pp. 300-308.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:2857
2019-10-17T16:57:59Z
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7375626A656374733D4F:4F33:4F3330
7375626A656374733D46:4632:463233
7375626A656374733D4C:4C32:4C3235
7375626A656374733D4C:4C36:4C3630
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2857/
Internationalization Strategies and Productivity: Evidence from Foreign Owned Companies Operating in the Greek Manufacturing Sector
Halkos, George
Tzeremes, Nickolaos
O30 - General
F23 - Multinational Firms ; International Business
L25 - Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope
L60 - General
This paper using Malmquist productivity indexes analyzes the impact of internalization on productivity efficiency and competitive advantage for a sample of 395 firms with foreign ownership operating in the Greek manufacturing sector. A number of different factors in respect to firms’ productivity performance and creation of competitive advantage are been explored. The productive and most competitive firms with foreign ownership seem to have definite and strong characteristics relative to their size. Our empirical results imply that the resources (tangible and intangible) which are utilized and obtained through the firms internationalization strategies have a direct impact on the firms’ productivity and hence to their competitive advantage.
2005-10-04
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2857/1/MPRA_paper_2857.pdf
Halkos, George and Tzeremes, Nickolaos (2005): Internationalization Strategies and Productivity: Evidence from Foreign Owned Companies Operating in the Greek Manufacturing Sector.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3265
2019-10-04T16:39:33Z
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7375626A656374733D4C:4C30:4C3030
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3265/
Globalization and its Effects on Regional Variations in Factor Substitution and Returns to Scale in the Indian Factory Sector
Mishra, SK
O53 - Asia including Middle East
L60 - General
O5 - Economywide Country Studies
L00 - General
The issue of inequality or imbalance in sectional, sectoral or regional distribution of economic and social variables is connected to welfare implications of the functioning of an economy responsible for allocation of resources, and production, distribution and consumption of the material requisites of well-being. Economic development and technological progress may or may not deliver justice in the Rawls’ sense although such development and progress might be perfectly just in Mill’s or Nietzsche’s sense.
Inequalities and their dynamics are often studied in terms of collectives of gross variables – income, amenities and facilities, infrastructure, etc. – that directly impinge on the welfare of the people. However, deeper parameters are seldom studied in this regard. Nevertheless, these parameters - such as propensities to consume and save, rate and direction of substitution of factors of production, returns to scale, bias of technical progress, concentration of monopoly power, etc are altered in the process of development and determine the gross economic variables for a fairly long period.
In this study we make an attempt to look into the spatial/regional distribution of a few structural parameters in the factory sector of India and purport to examine if, in the wake of globalization, there have been substantial changes in their distribution. Our main apparatus of analysis is ‘production functions’ that permit variable elasticities of factor substitution and returns to scale. We use data at the state level for 1990-91 and 2003-04 for our analysis.
2007-05-17
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3265/1/MPRA_paper_3265.pdf
Mishra, SK (2007): Globalization and its Effects on Regional Variations in Factor Substitution and Returns to Scale in the Indian Factory Sector.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3752
2019-09-27T02:49:22Z
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7375626A656374733D44:4432:443239
7375626A656374733D5A:5A30
7375626A656374733D4C:4C38:4C3838
7375626A656374733D44:4432:443234
7375626A656374733D4C:4C36:4C3630
7375626A656374733D4F:4F35:4F3533
7375626A656374733D4C:4C38:4C3830
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3752/
Recent trend of village and small enterprise sector: exploring and exploiting its opportunities in the North Eastern Region of India touching upon its profile and barriers
Mishra, SK
D29 - Other
Z0 - General
L88 - Government Policy
D24 - Production ; Cost ; Capital ; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity ; Capacity
L60 - General
O53 - Asia including Middle East
L80 - General
Development of village, micro and small enterprises in India has a special significance with regard to bridging up the disparities between urban and rural sectors of the economy on the one hand and the more industrialized and the less industrialized states on the other. It would also channelize to the mainstream the forces of development in the rural and remote areas presently strewn with the immense possibilities of manufacturing and service activities. Mahatma Gandhi had envisioned this long back, but Indian planners exhibited their preference to development of large-scale industries first. However, after having taken a step further to globalization and liberalization, India has recognized the relevance of small enterprises. Enactment of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Act, 2006 is an instance of the action taken in the wake of this recognition.
The North Eastern Region (NER) of India comprises eight states: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura, all well known for their handicrafts. The Schedule Tribes form the majority of population there. Most of these states are hilly and have remained agriculturally as well as industrially backward. Promotion of small enterprises is most suitable for their timely development.
In this paper we present a statistically detailed profile of small enterprises in the NER. We explore the possibilities of development of the small enterprises sector and discuss the constraints on the same.
2007-06-29
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3752/1/MPRA_paper_3752.pdf
Mishra, SK (2007): Recent trend of village and small enterprise sector: exploring and exploiting its opportunities in the North Eastern Region of India touching upon its profile and barriers.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3769
2019-09-27T16:50:22Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D44:4432:443239
7375626A656374733D5A:5A30
7375626A656374733D4C:4C38:4C3838
7375626A656374733D44:4432:443234
7375626A656374733D4C:4C36:4C3630
7375626A656374733D4F:4F35:4F3533
7375626A656374733D4C:4C38:4C3830
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3769/
Recent trend of village and small enterprise sector: exploring and exploiting its opportunities in the North Eastern Region of India touching upon its profile and barriers
Mishra, SK
D29 - Other
Z0 - General
L88 - Government Policy
D24 - Production ; Cost ; Capital ; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity ; Capacity
L60 - General
O53 - Asia including Middle East
L80 - General
Development of village, micro and small enterprises in India has a special significance with regard to bridging up the disparities between urban and rural sectors of the economy on the one hand and the more industrialized and the less industrialized states on the other. It would also channelize to the mainstream the forces of development in the rural and remote areas presently strewn with the immense possibilities of manufacturing and service activities. Mahatma Gandhi had envisioned this long back, but Indian planners exhibited their preference to development of large-scale industries first. However, after having taken a step further to globalization and liberalization, India has recognized the relevance of small enterprises. Enactment of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Act, 2006 is an instance of the action taken in the wake of this recognition.
The North Eastern Region (NER) of India comprises eight states: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura, all well known for their handicrafts. The Schedule Tribes form the majority of population there. Most of these states are hilly and have remained agriculturally as well as industrially backward. Promotion of small enterprises is most suitable for their timely development.
In this paper we present a statistically detailed profile of small enterprises in the NER. We explore the possibilities of development of the small enterprises sector and discuss the constraints on the same.
2007-06-29
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3769/1/MPRA_paper_3769.pdf
Mishra, SK (2007): Recent trend of village and small enterprise sector: exploring and exploiting its opportunities in the North Eastern Region of India touching upon its profile and barriers.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3975
2019-09-27T12:44:15Z
7374617475733D707562
7375626A656374733D4C:4C36:4C3630
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3975/
Formation of machine groups and part families in cellular manufacturing systems using a correlation analysis approach
Hachicha, Wafik
Masmoudi, Faouzi
Haddar, Mohamed
L60 - General
The important step in the design of a cellular manufacturing (CM) system is to identify the part
families and machine groups and consequently to form manufacturing cells. The scope of this
article is to formulate a multivariate approach based on a correlation analysis for solving cell
formation problem. The proposed approach is carried out in three phases. In the first phase, the
correlation matrix is used as similarity coefficient matrix. In the second phase, Principal Component
Analysis (PCA) is applied to find the eigenvalues and eigenvectors on the correlation similarity
matrix. A scatter plot analysis as a cluster analysis is applied to make simultaneously machine
groups and part families while maximizing correlation between elements. In the third stage, an
algorithm is improved to assign exceptional machines and exceptional parts using respectively
angle measure and Euclidian distance.
The proposed approach is also applied to the general Group Technology (GT) problem in which
exceptional machines and part are considered. Furthermore, the proposed approach has the
flexibility to consider the number of cells as a dependent or independent variable.
Two numerical examples for the design of cell structures are provided in order to illustrate the
three phases of proposed approach. The results of a comparative study based on multiple
performance criteria show that the present approach is very effective, efficient and practical.
2006-10-19
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3975/1/MPRA_paper_3975.pdf
Hachicha, Wafik and Masmoudi, Faouzi and Haddar, Mohamed (2006): Formation of machine groups and part families in cellular manufacturing systems using a correlation analysis approach. Published in: International Jounal of Advanced Manufacturing and Technology No. Published online (21 March 2007)
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4848
2019-09-26T08:44:31Z
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7375626A656374733D4A:4A32:4A3234
7375626A656374733D4F:4F33:4F3331
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7375626A656374733D44:4432:443234
7375626A656374733D4C:4C36:4C3630
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4848/
Productivity Growth in Small Enterprises - Role of Inputs, Technological Progress and 'Learning By Doing'
Majumder, Rajarshi
J24 - Human Capital ; Skills ; Occupational Choice ; Labor Productivity
O31 - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
O33 - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences ; Diffusion Processes
D24 - Production ; Cost ; Capital ; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity ; Capacity
L60 - General
Small Manufacturing Enterprises (SMEs) in an overpopulated developing economy serve the dual role of job-creation and shifting the occupational structure. However, their contribution to the overall health of the economy are being questioned on grounds of low productivity and economic viability. Sustainability of SMEs is argued to depend on improving labour productivity (LP) through technological upgradation. In a developing economy this may be a costly proposition due to capital scarcity. So, the effect of technological changes on productivity levels has to be estimated before taking such policies. This effect is generally measured by Total Factor Productivity Growth (TFPG) which is also a measure of Technological Progress (TP). A positive TFPG implies outward expansion of the production frontier leading to more than proportionate output growth compared to input growth whereby it may be concluded that TP is leading to productivity rise. However, TFPG in the growth accounting approach is a residual measure and encompasses the effect of not only TP, but is a combination of improved technology and the skill with which known technology is applied, i.e. Technological Diffusion or Technological Efficiency (TE). The SMEs rely on indigenous resources, adaptive technology, 'on-job' skill acquisition, and, go on experimenting till they achieve the optimum mix of technology, resource, skill and organisation. Consequently, technological diffusion is more important to them rather than the 'modernity' of the technology itself. This paper seeks to disassociate the effects of pure TP from those of TEC in few selected industries within the SMEs to examine the relative importance of them in improving the health of the SMEs. We use the NSSO database on Unorganised Manufacturing sector. The reference periods are 1994-95 and 2000-01, as defined by the two latest NSSO surveys and concentrate on Food product, Textiles, Leather product, and Non-electrical & electrical equipment sectors. Mean contribution of input growth is found to be 3.17 percent p.a. while that of TFPG has been only 1.10 percent p.a. Contribution of input growth is higher than TFPG in majority of cases, indicating that major part of VAG has been possible because of increased input use and technological upgradation has had only a moderate effect. It is observed that Efficiency levels have improved in 65 percent of cases while TP has been positive in just 35 percent cases. The quantum of TEC has been higher than TP in more number of cases. In about 70 per cent of the situations where indeed there has been some technological improvement, technological diffusion has by far outstripped the role of pure technical progress. For Food product and Equipment sectors, both TP and TEC are observed to be equally important in determining TFPG. While TP plays a dominant role in the Textiles sector, TEC plays a more vital role in the Leather products sector.This underlines the importance of diffusion for improving the conditions of the SMEs and as a policy choice, Efficiency Upgradation appears more viable, effective and lucrative compared to Technological Upgradation.
2004
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4848/1/MPRA_paper_4848.pdf
Majumder, Rajarshi (2004): Productivity Growth in Small Enterprises - Role of Inputs, Technological Progress and 'Learning By Doing'. Published in: Indian Journal of Labour Economics , Vol. 47, No. 4 (December 2004)
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4851
2019-09-28T22:42:45Z
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7375626A656374733D4A:4A32:4A3233
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7375626A656374733D4A:4A33:4A3331
7375626A656374733D4C:4C36:4C3630
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4851/
Wages and Employment in the Liberalised Regime: A Study of Indian Manufacturing Sector
Majumder, Rajarshi
J21 - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
J23 - Labor Demand
E24 - Employment ; Unemployment ; Wages ; Intergenerational Income Distribution ; Aggregate Human Capital ; Aggregate Labor Productivity
J31 - Wage Level and Structure ; Wage Differentials
L60 - General
Expansion of earning opportunities and increment in earning levels are dual objectives of policymakers in developing countries. The structural adjustment programme in India tried to ensure both through higher growth targets, and manufacturing sector has seen the most sweeping changes. It is now being suggested that the current jobless growth is due to high wages. The present paper examines the veracity of this by examining the trends in employment and earnings in this sector over the nineties and analysing the factors affecting them. Most of the employment expansion has been in the unorganised sector where wages have stagnated. Though real wages in the factories have declined employment therein has not increased. Interestingly, both wages and employment have increased in the mid-sized units. The relationship is therefore neither unidirectional nor exhaustive. Proper mix of labour flexibility, resource availability, and scale economies would bring dynamism to the sector and increase both employment and earnings.
2006
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4851/1/MPRA_paper_4851.pdf
Majumder, Rajarshi (2006): Wages and Employment in the Liberalised Regime: A Study of Indian Manufacturing Sector. Published in: Indian Journal of Labour Economics , Vol. 49, No. 4 (December 2006)
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4852
2019-09-28T01:56:22Z
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7375626A656374733D52:5231:523132
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4852/
Problems and Prospects of Informal Manufacturing Sector: A Case Study of Durgapur City
Mukherjee, Dipa
R38 - Government Policy
R12 - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
L60 - General
Even in presence of a dominant factory sector, informal manufacturing sector can play a very vital role in shaping the development profile of a region through its diverse interaction and complementarities with the organised sector. This paper, based on a field survey at the industrial city of Durgapur explores the problems and prospects of informal manufacturing units therein. A gradual shift in composition of this sector is evident, which is mainly in response to changing economic scenario of the region. Appropriate policies for the sector's optimum development should include, among others, well co-ordinated formal-informal linkage and streamlining of credit availability. These steps are likely to bring about integrated development of the region.
2003
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4852/1/MPRA_paper_4852.pdf
Mukherjee, Dipa (2003): Problems and Prospects of Informal Manufacturing Sector: A Case Study of Durgapur City. Published in: Indian Journal of Regional Science , Vol. 36, No. 2 (December 2004)
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4859
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4859/
Productivity in the Informal Manufacturing Sector: Regional Patterns and Policy Issues
Mukherjee, Dipa
R12 - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
J24 - Human Capital ; Skills ; Occupational Choice ; Labor Productivity
R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
D24 - Production ; Cost ; Capital ; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity ; Capacity
L60 - General
The study uses a disaggregated approach to look into Labour Productivity in the informal manufacturing sector in India over the last two decades, especially Trends in productivity levels and regional disparities, its regional pattern, and Factors affecting the productivity levels. Wide variation in productivity levels is observed. The Western and North-western states are found to be doing better. Regional disparities are higher for intermediate goods compared to others. However, converging tendencies are also perceived. General economic condition of the state and Availability of loan are identified as factors affecting productivity levels. Policies for improving productivity levels in this sector, especially in lagging regions, should include general economic upliftment, development of proper infrastructure, technological upgradation and easy and cheap credit availability.
2004
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4859/1/MPRA_paper_4859.pdf
Mukherjee, Dipa (2004): Productivity in the Informal Manufacturing Sector: Regional Patterns and Policy Issues. Published in: Industrialization, Economic Reforms and Regional Development: Essays in honour of Professor Ashok Mathur, (eds) S. K. Thorat and others, Shipra Publications, New Delhi (2005)
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4861
2019-09-30T16:35:00Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4861/
Technological Upgradation in the Informal Manufacturing Sector: Possibilities and Problems
Mukherjee, Dipa
Mathur, Ashok
J24 - Human Capital ; Skills ; Occupational Choice ; Labor Productivity
R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
L60 - General
The informal sector in India has consolidated its position in the economy instead of fading away with time. It has taken up the challenges of the new economic dispension with vigorous competitiveness and amazing adaptation & enthusiasm. However, low labour productivity is one of the serious problems related to this sector. It is argued that technological upgradation is likely to solve this problem substantially. This paper attempts to identify the areas within the informal manufacturing sector where such technological upgradation would be fruitful. Several segments and activity groups are identified as Target groups both at the National and Regional level. Associated policies should address availability of proper technology, resource needs for technological upgradation and promoting formal-informal linkages.
2002
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4861/1/MPRA_paper_4861.pdf
Mukherjee, Dipa and Mathur, Ashok (2002): Technological Upgradation in the Informal Manufacturing Sector: Possibilities and Problems. Published in: Informal Sector in India – Pathway to Viability and Growth, (eds) Jayshree Shah and R.G. Nambiar, SPIESR, 2005 (2005)
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4866
2019-09-30T08:06:25Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4866/
Informal Manufacturing Sector in India: Pre and Post Reform Growth Dynamics
Mukherjee, Dipa
J01 - Labor Economics: General
J21 - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
J23 - Labor Demand
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
L60 - General
The informal manufacturing sector (IMS) in India has been a major part of the economy. Whether its growth is due to entry of people in distress, or whether it is a vibrant and growth oriented sector is debatable. In this paper, the growth dynamics of IMS in India over the period 1984 to 2000 is explored with special reference to the Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) and plausible factors determining the growth pattern are sought to be identified. This growth is observed to be neither smooth nor uniform. The IMS cannot be labelled either a distress driven sink or a dynamic alternative economic avenue in blanket term as existence of both the segments are detected. While sustainability of the distress driven segment is questionable, the dynamic segment is likely to act as the engine of future growth. Distinctly different sets of policies are recommended for the two different segments of IMS.
2004
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4866/1/MPRA_paper_4866.pdf
Mukherjee, Dipa (2004): Informal Manufacturing Sector in India: Pre and Post Reform Growth Dynamics. Published in: Indian Journal of Labour Economics , Vol. 47, No. 2 (2004)
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4867
2019-09-26T14:14:09Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4867/
Productivity in the Small Manufacturing Enterprises: Determinants and Policy Issues
Mukherjee, Dipa
J24 - Human Capital ; Skills ; Occupational Choice ; Labor Productivity
D24 - Production ; Cost ; Capital ; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity ; Capacity
L60 - General
The role of Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) in employment creation is widely acknowledged. But their contribution to national income is questioned because of their low productivity. The present paper tries to identify important determinants of productivity level in Small Manufacturing Enterprises (SMEs) and suggest appropriate policies for augmenting productivity levels therein. Factors like technology, access to resources and inputs, general macroeconomic atmosphere, etc. emerge as important determinants of productivity. A close association between productivity levels and emolument per worker is also observed. Policies for proper development of these enterprises should include technological upgradation, better access to land ownership and formal credit system, improvement of general economic condition of the states, ensuring remunerative wages and better working conditions etc. For best results, a targeted approach is recommended and for that Focus groups, both at National and State level, have been identified. A co-ordinated approach is the need of the hour.
2004
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4867/1/MPRA_paper_4867.pdf
Mukherjee, Dipa (2004): Productivity in the Small Manufacturing Enterprises: Determinants and Policy Issues. Published in: Indian Journal of Labour Economics , Vol. 47, No. 4 (2004)
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4873
2019-09-28T05:30:25Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4873/
Changing Role of Women: A Study of Small Manufacturing Enterprises in India
Mukherjee, Dipa
R23 - Regional Migration ; Regional Labor Markets ; Population ; Neighborhood Characteristics
J21 - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
J16 - Economics of Gender ; Non-labor Discrimination
R10 - General
L60 - General
Women's position in the labour market is quite vulnerable and they face widespread discrimination, especially in the informal sector. This position is changing, both quantitatively and qualitatively, and there is a marked trend towards feminisation of workforce. This paper focuses on this changing position of women in the informal manufacturing sector in India over the 1989-2000 period. The share of women in total employment is declining in the sectors traditionally labeled for women and increasing in the non-traditional sectors. Distribution of women employment is becoming more evenly spread across both activity groups and regions. Widespread casualisation emerges to be a prominent phenomenon. Poverty, literacy and per capita income are identified as important determinants of incidence of women employment. In recent years women's participation seems to be less distress driven. Regulations regarding minimum wage, mass literacy campaign along with vocational and on the job training are some of the policy suggestions.
2005
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4873/1/MPRA_paper_4873.pdf
Mukherjee, Dipa (2005): Changing Role of Women: A Study of Small Manufacturing Enterprises in India. Published in: Journal of Economic & Social Development , Vol. II, No. 2 (2006)
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:5459
2019-09-27T23:50:51Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5459/
Investments in Modernization, Innovation and Gains in Productivity: Evidence from Firms in the Global Paper Industry
Ghosal, Vivek
Nair-Reichert, Usha
M10 - General
D20 - General
L60 - General
L20 - General
This paper examines the impact of investments in modernization and innovation on productivity in a sample of firms in the global pulp and paper industry. This industry is important because it has traditionally accounted for significant amounts of employment and capital investment in North America and Europe. In contrast to much of the existing literature which focuses on the impact of R&D and patents on firms’ performance and productivity, we examine data on actual investment transactions in four main areas of operations: (i) mechanical, (ii) chemicals, (iii) monitoring devices and (iv) information technology. We find that firms which made decisions to implement a greater number of investment transactions in modernization achieved higher productivity, and these estimated quantitative effects are greater than the impact of standard innovation variables such as patents and R&D. Investment transactions in the information technology and digital monitoring devices imparted a particularly noticeable boost to productivity. These results are obtained after controlling for other firm-specific variables such as capital-intensity and mergers and acquisitions. Two broad messages emerge from our study. First, firms’ decisions to undertake investments in modernization and various forms of incremental innovations appear to be critical for achieving gains in productivity. While these may typically generate small gains on a year-to-year basis, they can compound to form meaningful differences in performance, productivity and competitive position across firms in the longer-run. Second, for some of the traditional industries like pulp and paper, R&D and patents seem to be particularly poor indicators of innovation and, more generally, how firms go about achieving gains in productivity. While this paper focuses on the pulp and paper industry, our broad framework and methodology is general and can be applied to understanding firms’ strategies related to enhancing performance and productivity in a variety of industries.
2007-06
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5459/1/MPRA_paper_5459.pdf
Ghosal, Vivek and Nair-Reichert, Usha (2007): Investments in Modernization, Innovation and Gains in Productivity: Evidence from Firms in the Global Paper Industry.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:5627
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The Collaborative Work Concept and the Information Systems Support: Perspectives for and from Manufacturing Industry
Moniz, António
O32 - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
J50 - General
O33 - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences ; Diffusion Processes
L60 - General
Z13 - Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology ; Social and Economic Stratification
Most of the discussion and controversy on organisation of work concepts has been
referenced to the manufacturing industry along the 20th century: it started with the
concept of “scientific management” from Taylor, and continued with the new ideas on
the importance of human factors as Mayo pointed out in the 1930s. Immediately after
the 2nd World War Friedmann studied the human problems related to new manufacturing
technologies and automation. And the late 1950 and 1960s were decades of
strong debate on the socio-technics with the research at Tavistock Institute of London
and the emergence of national programmes on new forms of work organisation.
At the end of the last century the concept of collaborative work was developed
together with the definition(s) of information systems and organisational design.
However, the interest came from other production activities, like the services. This
article analyses the approaches developed on these debates on the collaborative work
and information system and its application to the manufacturing industry.
2007-03
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5627/1/MPRA_paper_5627.pdf
Moniz, António (2007): The Collaborative Work Concept and the Information Systems Support: Perspectives for and from Manufacturing Industry. Published in: Technikfolgenabschätzung – Theorie und Praxis , Vol. 16, No. 2 (June 2007): pp. 49-57.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:5875
2019-10-25T06:11:35Z
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:6169
2019-09-27T11:08:15Z
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Organizational alternatives for flexible manufacturing systems
Moniz, António
J28 - Safety ; Job Satisfaction ; Related Public Policy
J24 - Human Capital ; Skills ; Occupational Choice ; Labor Productivity
O33 - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences ; Diffusion Processes
L60 - General
There is an increasing importance of different productive architectures related to worker involvement in the decision making, where is given due attention to the intuitive capabilities and the human knowledge in the optimization and flexibilization of manufacturing processes. Thus having reference point architecture of a flexible manufacturing and assembling system existent at UNINOVA-CRI, we will present some exploratory hypothesis about applicability of the concept of hybridization and its repercussions on the definition of jobs, in those organizations and in the formation of working teams.
1996-02
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6169/1/MPRA_paper_6169.pdf
Moniz, António (1996): Organizational alternatives for flexible manufacturing systems.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:6239
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EXPLORING THE LINK BETWEEN LOCAL AND GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE SPILLOVERS
Barrios, Salvador
Bertinelli, Luisito
Heinen, Andreas
O30 - General
F14 - Empirical Studies of Trade
R12 - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
L60 - General
We measure the effect of R&D spillovers on plant productivity by taking account of (i) the national origin of the spillovers, (ii) the mechanism through which spillovers may flow (FDI and/or imports), (iii) the sectoral scope of spillovers, as well as (iv) their geographic scope, in a single analytical framework. Our analysis is based on an exhaustive database on Irish manufacturing plants covering the period 1986-1994. The results show that while domestic plants benefit from local R&D spillovers, these spillovers are spatially bounded. Domestic plants are also able to tap into the global R&D pool, but only via the presence of multinational plants located near them. In contrast, there is no evidence that foreign affiliates located in Ireland are recipients of local R&D spillovers. Foreign affiliates do, however, gain from the size of the R&D stock in their origin country.
2007-08-02
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6239/1/MPRA_paper_6239.pdf
Barrios, Salvador and Bertinelli, Luisito and Heinen, Andreas (2007): EXPLORING THE LINK BETWEEN LOCAL AND GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE SPILLOVERS.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:6301
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6301/
EXPLORING THE LINK BETWEEN LOCAL AND GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE SPILLOVERS
Barrios, Salvador
Bertinelli, Luisito
Heinen, Andreas
Strobl, Eric
O30 - General
F14 - Empirical Studies of Trade
R12 - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
L60 - General
We measure the effect of R&D spillovers on plant productivity by taking account of (i) the national origin of the spillovers, (ii) the mechanism through which spillovers may flow (FDI and/or imports), (iii) the sectoral scope of spillovers, as well as (iv) their geographic scope, in a single analytical framework. Our analysis is based on an exhaustive database on Irish manufacturing plants covering the period 1986-1994. The results show that while domestic plants benefit from local R&D spillovers, these spillovers are spatially bounded. Domestic plants are also able to tap into the global R&D pool, but only via the presence of multinational plants located near them. In contrast, there is no evidence that foreign affiliates located in Ireland are recipients of local R&D spillovers. Foreign affiliates do, however, gain from the size of the R&D stock in their origin country.
2007-08-02
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6301/1/MPRA_paper_6301.pdf
Barrios, Salvador and Bertinelli, Luisito and Heinen, Andreas and Strobl, Eric (2007): EXPLORING THE LINK BETWEEN LOCAL AND GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE SPILLOVERS.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:6564
2019-09-27T17:27:51Z
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What determines productivity dynamics at the firm level? Evidence from Spain
Stucchi, Rodolfo
C51 - Model Construction and Estimation
D24 - Production ; Cost ; Capital ; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity ; Capacity
L60 - General
The current literature on firm dynamics considers the mobility of firms within the productivity distribution to be determined by exogenous random shocks. This paper evaluates human capital and learning by doing as possible factors determining the mobility once the exogenous shocks have taken place. The main contribution of the paper is to provide evidence on the endogenous mobility of firms within the productivity distribution.
2007-10-10
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6564/1/MPRA_paper_6564.pdf
Stucchi, Rodolfo (2007): What determines productivity dynamics at the firm level? Evidence from Spain.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:7967
2019-09-29T04:31:16Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/7967/
Межотраслевой анализ эффективности промышленности Украины
Goncharuk, Anatoliy G.
C14 - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General
D24 - Production ; Cost ; Capital ; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity ; Capacity
L60 - General
The paper states empirical results of inter-branch research of efficiency of the industry of Ukraine as the first and one of the basic stages of the three-level analysis of efficiency (Goncharuk 2007). By results of the analysis groups of high, low and medium efficient industries are determined. Dynamics of efficiency and impact of major factors on it are revealed.
2008-03-28
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/7967/1/MPRA_paper_7967.pdf
Goncharuk, Anatoliy G. (2008): Межотраслевой анализ эффективности промышленности Украины.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:8010
2019-10-03T04:06:31Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/8010/
Межотраслевой анализ эффективности промышленности Украины
Goncharuk, Anatoliy G.
C14 - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General
D24 - Production ; Cost ; Capital ; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity ; Capacity
L60 - General
The paper states empirical results of inter-branch research of efficiency of the industry of Ukraine as the first and one of the basic stages of the three-level analysis of efficiency (Goncharuk 2007). By results of the analysis groups of high, low and medium efficient industries are determined. Dynamics of efficiency and impact of major factors on it are revealed.
2008-03-31
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/8010/1/MPRA_paper_8010.pdf
Goncharuk, Anatoliy G. (2008): Межотраслевой анализ эффективности промышленности Украины.
ru
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:8103
2019-09-27T22:25:41Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/8103/
A contribuição da Sociologia para a formação em Engenharia
i, António
J44 - Professional Labor Markets ; Occupational Licensing
M54 - Labor Management
L60 - General
This article is based on the lesson presented in the scope of academy activities in the area of Sociology (at FCT-UNL). It is intended to approach the controversies concerning the relation between technology and society (technological determinism, effect on employment, importance of the social behaviours in the definition of needs for new products and equipment), and on the most recent trends (over all, since middle of the last century) in terms of technological evolution and of its social and cultural change. Finally, this subject was dedicated to the presentation of the main factors that has lead to the development of the contribution of sociology for the training and education in engineering. Thus, one intends to acquire new elements on this area of knowledge also presented in other schools of engineering of other countries (for examples, United States and Holland), and how the theoretical beddings are been developed since the beginning of 20th century on the modalities of work organization that imply a cooperation between engineering and social sciences.
2002-05
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/8103/1/MPRA_paper_8103.pdf
i, António (2002): A contribuição da Sociologia para a formação em Engenharia. Published in: Organizações e Trabalho No. 27 (May 2002): pp. 9-37.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:8226
2019-09-26T17:41:26Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/8226/
Mergers, acquisitions and technological regimes: the European experience over the period 2002- 2005
Damiani, Mirella
Pompei, Fabrizio
O30 - General
G34 - Mergers ; Acquisitions ; Restructuring ; Corporate Governance
L60 - General
Comparisons by countries and by sectors of mergers and acquisitions have usually been performed in separate fields of research. A first group of studies, focusing on international comparisons, has explored the role of corporate governance systems, investor protection laws and other countries’ regulatory institutions as the main determinants of takeovers around the world. A second group of contributions has attributed a central role to variations in industry composition, documenting that, in each country, mergers occur in waves and within each wave clustering by industry is observed. This paper aims to integrate both perspectives and to make comparisons by countries and by sectors, thus exploring the role of various driving forces on takeover activities.
It also intends to consider the specific influence that technological regimes and their innovation patterns may exert in reallocating assets and moving capital among sectors. This will be done by examining the European experience of the last few years (2002-2005). We found that even in countries where transfer of control is a frequent phenomenon, mergers are less frequent in those sectors where innovation is a cumulative process and where takeovers may be a threat to the continuity of accumulation of innovative capabilities.
2008-04-11
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/8226/1/MPRA_paper_8226.pdf
Damiani, Mirella and Pompei, Fabrizio (2008): Mergers, acquisitions and technological regimes: the European experience over the period 2002- 2005.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:8312
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/8312/
Manufacturing Sector and the process of Structural transformation in Libyan Economy
Alrubaie, falah.K.Ali
L60 - General
" Manufacturing Sector and the process of Structural transformation in Libyan Economy"
Dr.falah.K.Ali Alrubaie
Economics-faculty of Economics –derna -Omar Almukhtar university
Abstract
This study aims to diagnosis the role of Manufacturing sector in the process of structural transformation in Libyan Economy and determination the nature of transformation during 1970-2000 by following:-
1-Diagnosis the main structural relationship among the Economical activities and determination the nature of transformation which has take part during the study period, in order to determine whether this transformation causes a state of structural imbalance or it harmonizes with the aim of structural balance which declaration in economic plans
2- Diagnosis the structural transformation in manufacturing sector by study the relations between branches, activities and patterns, small and large scale, import substitution and encourage exports activities.
3:- study the reflection of structural transformation in manufacturing sector on the directions of the main structural relationship among economical
activities of Libyan Economy
2004
MPRA Paper
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Alrubaie, falah.K.Ali (2004): Manufacturing Sector and the process of Structural transformation in Libyan Economy.
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أثر التغيرات الهيكلية في قطاع الصناعة التحويلية على اتجاهات الإنتاجية والتشغيل في الاقتصاد العراقي
Alrubaie, falah.K.Ali
L60 - General
the three dimensions of value-added, employment, labour productivity, Represent the most important vector defining the nature of sectoral development in terms of the rate and content and mode, in this scope the industrial manufacturing sector progression to other productive activities for a sector of higher productivity, investment in this sector ensuring a structural shift and create many job opportunities that absorb surplus agricultural labour along with the natural increase in the labour force, to increase the flexibility of the sector about the changes in each of the relative contributions of labour and capital; productivity, which increases the rate of overlap between changes taking place in three dimensions mentioned whenever the growing role This sector in the national economy, and can be seen when comparing the prevailing event in both developed and developing economies. Based on these facts, this study has demonstrated that the industrial manufacturing sector in Iraq have failed at the level of branches and patterns and productive scales , in the provision of adequate opportunities for productive employment increases achieved in the labour force (natural and derived from the agricultural sector) and this was due to the relative inflexible Manufacturing activities are productive and technological content in high absorb workers, particularly chemical and oil industries, which dominate the major contributing added value achieved in this sector, as well as the relative decline in the rates of absorption of the activities with high employment flexibility (light manufacturing activities) in connection with the growing trend patterns towards intensive capital, enhance the imbalance in the labour market between the qualifications and conditions required before the one hand, and a non- proportionality structure professional work and got between the high productivity and low productivity activities on the other, non-interaction of the branches the patterns of industrial manufacturing sector and torn between two separated limb , first petroleum industry intensive capital and enhanced export, which is linked to international market conditions, and secondly, include assembly Industries and other consumer industries and import substitutes, which linkages with foreign inputs sources ,and the almost total absence of the active role of intermediate and capital industries, especially in industries and means of production, has weakened the ability of the manufacturing activities based on the creation of productive linkages or deepened within the productive potential of local, and that any positive change can happen in employment drop rapidly due to the loss or weakness of the existing workshops, and the surpluses generated by increased productivity, not supplying local production capacities Capacity better, but working to support consumer demand and speculation unproductive. Thus, the imbalance structural conditions in the industrial sector at the level of branches and patterns in this sector ,We Calls for non continuation in industrial expansion based on repetition and duplication, and attention instead to develop designs to distribution industries, according to activities and spot and regulations, and patterns, provided that this is a disclosure of the potential abilities to deepen the linkages for productivity and spots., in this regard, we suggest that industrial base is being built around a number of key core seen industrial compounds, based on Integrated technological links horizontally and vertically.
2000-01-06
MPRA Paper
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Alrubaie, falah.K.Ali (2000): أثر التغيرات الهيكلية في قطاع الصناعة التحويلية على اتجاهات الإنتاجية والتشغيل في الاقتصاد العراقي.
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اتجاهات التنويع الإنتاجي في قطاع الصناعة التحويلية وأثرها على الاقتصاد العراقي
Alrubaie, falah.K.Ali
L60 - General
The main problem facing the Iraqi economy waylay in excessive dependence on one product is
crude oil, which is dominated on major contribution in GDP, exports and public revenue and this
product prone to structural changes, technological changes and fluctuations on oil prices in
international markets, in addition to the fluctuations in Iraq's relations with the international
community and with his neighborhood specially during the period (1980-2003) and concomitant
wars and international harsh sanctions imposed lasted (1991-2003) following its invasion of Kuwait
in 1991, the result of all these developments diversification efforts suffered a serious setback setting
the Iraqi economy in a rattrap.
This study focuses on study the period (1975 - 1990) in order to determine the size achievement in
the diversification production field, because that period has special attention by concerned in the
affairs of planning and economic policy in Iraq, as a historic opportunity to diversify the productive
structure of the Iraqi economy and transformation the agricultural- extract structure to industrial -
extract the industrial structure, the diversification efforts during that period based on increase the
rates of investment in petrochemical industries, oil refining industry and other industries that
depend on oil, natural gas, which Iraq enjoyed States a clear competitive advantage.
However, the wars and deteriorate political conditions had prevented the achievement of these
goals, and the Iraqi economy has remained suffered from negative effects on the continued
overdependence on oil revenues,
This study focuses on analysis the trends Production diversification in the Iraqi economy by
measuring levels of production diversification in the manufacturing sector in branches, activities
and patterns, small and large scale, import substitution and encourage exports activities , to
diagnose the reality of production diversification.
Finally the study recommend to re-study the comparative advantages of domestic resources and
financial, human and technical , to re-evaluate the policies of industrialization by focuses on the
industries that have ability to raise value-added manufacturing and diversify manufacturing
production , in order to strengthen the role of export industries and the industries which contribute
to reducing dependence on the oil sector ,and which achieve a higher value-added ,and offer more
job opportunities, and more productivity, to raise growth rates in the long term, and diversification
the structure of Production in Iraqi economy
2004-09-10
MPRA Paper
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Alrubaie, falah.K.Ali (2004): اتجاهات التنويع الإنتاجي في قطاع الصناعة التحويلية وأثرها على الاقتصاد العراقي.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:8930
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Knowledge Management through the Lens of Innovation and Labour Productivity in a Knowledge Based Economy
Constantinescu, Madalina
A12 - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
N00 - General
O32 - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
O31 - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
D24 - Production ; Cost ; Capital ; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity ; Capacity
L60 - General
The 21st century brings along the recognition for the necessity to understand and measure the activity of knowledge management, for which reason organizations and system organizations, together with decisional governmental factors, do their best in order to develop policies that would promote these benefits. Knowledge management (KM) implies any activity regarding the capture and the diffusion of knowledge within the organization. In our study we analyze the impacts and dimensions of KM upon the innovation and labour productivity within the organization, and how KM affects the firm’s innovative performance. A key component of knowledge management is to provide access to stored knowledge components to improve decision making and to facilitate knowledge acquisition by the user.
2008-06-02
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Constantinescu, Madalina (2008): Knowledge Management through the Lens of Innovation and Labour Productivity in a Knowledge Based Economy.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:9507
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A contribuição da Sociologia para a formação em Engenharia
Moniz, António
J44 - Professional Labor Markets ; Occupational Licensing
M54 - Labor Management
L60 - General
This article is based on the lesson presented in the scope of academy activities in the area of Sociology (at FCT-UNL). It is intended to approach the controversies concerning the relation between technology and society (technological determinism, effect on employment, importance of the social behaviours in the definition of needs for new products and equipment), and on the most recent trends (over all, since middle of the last century) in terms of technological evolution and of its social and cultural change. Finally, this subject was dedicated to the presentation of the main factors that has lead to the development of the contribution of sociology for the training and education in engineering. Thus, one intends to acquire new elements on this area of knowledge also presented in other schools of engineering of other countries (for examples, United States and Holland), and how the theoretical beddings are been developed since the beginning of 20th century on the modalities of work organization that imply a cooperation between engineering and social sciences.
2002-05
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Moniz, António (2002): A contribuição da Sociologia para a formação em Engenharia. Published in: Organizações e Trabalho No. 27 (May 2002): pp. 9-37.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:9797
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An Empirical Model of Factor Adjustment Dynamics
Contreras, Juan
E24 - Employment ; Unemployment ; Wages ; Intergenerational Income Distribution ; Aggregate Human Capital ; Aggregate Labor Productivity
E22 - Investment ; Capital ; Intangible Capital ; Capacity
D24 - Production ; Cost ; Capital ; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity ; Capacity
J23 - Labor Demand
L60 - General
This paper investigates how firms dynamically adjust their use of capital, labor, energy, and materials when there are both smooth and lumpy adjustment possibilities and interrelation among adjustments. The Colombian Annual Census of Manufacturing provides evidence of these kinds of adjustment. The innovation of this paper lies in three areas: in considering the joint adjustment and interrelation of labor and capital at the establishment level; in describing the dynamic adjustment of all the production factors; and in a rich description of adjustment costs, which includes disruption of the production process and reallocation of internal resources, and fixed costs of installing capital and creating or discontinuing a job vacancy. The model also includes both a convex cost component, aimed at capturing smooth adjustments, and congestion effects, which means that it is more costly for firms to adjust capital and labor at the same time than it is to adjust them separately. Using a simulated method of moments, the study finds empirical support for the existence of disruption costs for capital and labor, the existence of convex costs for capital but not for labor, and the existence of congestion effects. An important implication of the model is that, in response to shocks, firms decide to adjust either capital or labor alone or both, depending on the initial capital to labor ratio and the magnitude of the shocks.
2006-11
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Contreras, Juan (2006): An Empirical Model of Factor Adjustment Dynamics.
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Competitiveness of India's Manufacturing Sector: An Assessment of Related Issues
L, lakshmanan
S, Chinngaihlian
Raj, Rajesh
F14 - Empirical Studies of Trade
L52 - Industrial Policy ; Sectoral Planning Methods
O57 - Comparative Studies of Countries
L60 - General
This paper provides an analytical abstract of various parameters of manufacturing
competitiveness of the Indian economy. India's manufacturing exports have risen
impressively in the past decade or so and found to be directly linked to the world GDP
and inversely related to real effective exchange rate (REER). Indian manufacturing
industries have certain inherent strengths and advantages in having a relatively inexpensive,
adequate and skilled labour force, cost-effective and competitive prices of goods produced,
large manufacturing base and proximity to fast growing Asian markets. India is one of the
leading producers and exporters in a number of commodities and enjoys significant
advantages in terms of lower labour costs as compared to other economies. Nevertheless,
India's competitiveness is lost on account of lower labour productivity and higher input
and material costs. To improve the competitiveness of the Indian manufacturing goods,
issues like further diversification of export basket, upgradation of export quality,
improvement in productivity, increased technology intensity in production, enhanced R&D
activity, encouraging business environment, less cumbersome regulatory environment,
flexible labour laws, removal of infrastructural bottlenecks and SME related issues need
attention of all concerned.
2007-01-07
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/9801/1/MPRA_paper_9801.pdf
L, lakshmanan and S, Chinngaihlian and Raj, Rajesh (2007): Competitiveness of India's Manufacturing Sector: An Assessment of Related Issues. Published in: RBI Occassional Papers , Vol. Vol. 2, No. Summer 2007 (7 February 2008): pp. 33-77.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:10003
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Do environmental regulations reduce greenhouse gas emissions? A study on Canadian industries
Sedigh, Golnaz
Q28 - Government Policy
O13 - Agriculture ; Natural Resources ; Energy ; Environment ; Other Primary Products
Q21 - Demand and Supply ; Prices
L60 - General
This paper uses the Canadian industrial macro-level data from CANSIM to investigate the effect
of formal and informal regulations on pollution intensity. Proxies for formal and informal
regulation variables are defined as in Cole et al., 2005. The econometrics model is a panel with
23 manufacturing industries over 10 years, from 1994 to 2003. Manufacturing industries are
chosen because they are the most pollutant industries. It is found that formal and informal
regulations have significant effects on decreasing the direct and indirect greenhouse gas
emissions in Canadian industries. Provinces with younger populations have stricter informal
regulation on pollution density, because younger populations care more about the future quality
of the environment. Also, provinces with a higher rate of unemployment have less formal
regulation on pollution density; for those provinces, providing employment for citizens is more
important than providing a healthy environment. Wealthier provinces with a low employment
rate face less pressure from society and can spend more money on the environment; therefore,
they have lower pollution density. Furthermore, industries with large average firm size can
decrease emissions more than other industries. The cost of controlling the emissions decreases
with firm size because of economies of scale.
2008-05
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Sedigh, Golnaz (2008): Do environmental regulations reduce greenhouse gas emissions? A study on Canadian industries.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:10078
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Testing urbanization economies in manufacturing industries: urban diversity or urban size?
Fu, Shihe
Hong, Junjie
R30 - General
R12 - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
L60 - General
Whether urbanization economies are caused by urban diversity or urban scale is not clear in regional and urban economics literature. Many empirical studies have used either city population size or urban industrial diversity to measure urbanization economies and have reached different conclusions. This paper argues that city size mainly captures the pure scale economies of urban public goods, and may generate net diseconomies when a city size is too large. Urban industrial diversity can also enhance firm productivity. Using the 2004 China manufacturing census data, we test simultaneously the effects of urban size and industrial diversity on firm productivity, controlling for localization economies and human capital externalities. We found that city size effect does exist, but too large a city size indicates net diseconomies. Firms also benefit from industrial diversity, and the strength of such benefit increases with city size but decreases with firm size. The overall results support Jacobs's idea that small firms benefit more from urban diversity.
2008-08
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/10078/1/MPRA_paper_10078.pdf
Fu, Shihe and Hong, Junjie (2008): Testing urbanization economies in manufacturing industries: urban diversity or urban size?
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:10886
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SOUTH-SOUTH REGIONALISM AND TRADE COOPERATION IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION
Shafaeddin, Mehdi
N85 - Asia including Middle East
O38 - Government Policy
O24 - Trade Policy ; Factor Movement Policy ; Foreign Exchange Policy
O53 - Asia including Middle East
O10 - General
D20 - General
L60 - General
Q18 - Agricultural Policy ; Food Policy
F00 - General
F15 - Economic Integration
N65 - Asia including Middle East
Q17 - Agriculture in International Trade
F10 - General
L70 - General
This study of regional South-South (S-S) trade and cooperation in East, South and South-East Asian countries
(ESSEA) aims to provide an economic rationale for S-S trade; shed some light on the extent and pattern of S-S
trade in the ESSEA region; examine the dynamic forces behind the expansion of such trade, and its shortcomings
and vulnerabilities; propose policies for enhancing and strengthening regional cooperation; and identify
areas for further research.
The main conclusion of the study is that, while the rapid expansion of trade among ESSEA countries
has been mainly the result of industrialization and industrial collaboration in the form of production sharing,
it has not been driven through the operation of market forces alone. South-South trade can also be used as a
policy-driven vehicle for industrialization in lower-income countries, and is linked to the principle of dynamic
comparative advantage. The resultant expansion of supply capabilities and diversification of the structure
of production and trade, in turn, potentially leads to further expansion of S-S trade and to the geographical
diversification of trade for the countries involved, with a positive impact on their bargaining power. However,
enhancing S-S trade requires proactive policy measures for cooperation that go beyond tariff reduction and
trade agreements.
The paper begins by providing a rationale for S-S trade as a vehicle for promoting industrialization
and development. It goes on to show that regional trade has expanded rapidly in ESSEA mainly through
intra-industry trade in the form of production sharing in electrical and electronic products. The region has
become not only the most dynamic area for S-S trade, but also a major force in international trade in general.
Nevertheless, intraregional trade among ESSEA countries has led to three main developments that these
countries need to consider collectively and address through joint policy initiatives in order to further promote
industrialization and development.
2008-08
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Shafaeddin, Mehdi (2008): SOUTH-SOUTH REGIONALISM AND TRADE COOPERATION IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION. Published in:
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Industrial energy from water-mills in the European economy, 5th to 18th Centuries: the limitations of power,
Munro, John H.
N63 - Europe: Pre-1913
O30 - General
N53 - Europe: Pre-1913
Q40 - General
O52 - Europe
L60 - General
The water-mill, though known in the Roman Empire from the second century BCE, did not come to enjoy any widespread use until the 4th or 5th centuries CE, and then chiefly in the West, which was then experiencing not only a rapid decline in the supply of slaves, but also widespread depopulation, and thus a severe scarcity of labour. For the West -- those regions that came to form Europe -- the water-mill then became by far the predominant ‘prime mover’: i.e., an apparatus that converts natural energy into mechanical power. The classic study, as a monograph in technological and engineering history, is Terry S. Reynolds, Stronger than a Hundred Men: A History of the Vertical Water Wheel (Baltimore and London, 1983). Indeed he has calculated that even the early medieval watermills provided about 2 hp, enough to liberate from 30 to 60 persons from the wearisome task of grinding grain into flour, the mill’s virtually sole use during the first millennium. He, and others, have neglected to note, however, that, apart from providing such economies in labour, water-mills also conserved on the capital and land resources (fodder crops) that would have been required to produce a comparable amount of power with animal-powered mills (horses, mules).
The aim of this study is to analyse in greater depth the economic implications and consequences of the application of water-mills, their impact on European economic history up to the Industrial Revolution era, in those areas not well treated by Reynolds and other historians: in the fields of mining, metallurgy, and textiles – including the cotton industry of the initial phase of the Industrial Revolution. The study also necessarily analyses as well the necessary technological innovations to achieve the productivity gains in these economic sectors: especially in the devices (cam and crankshafts) to convert the basic rotary power of mills into reciprocal power, initially to operate trip-hammers; and the more gradual, if only late-medieval, displacement of the original undershot wheels with the far more effective, if more capital costly, overshot wheels. The study thus begins with the late-medieval technological revolutions in both mining and metallurgy, providing the key transitions to the early-modern European economy.
A demonstration of significant productivity gains is counterbalanced, however, in this study by an examination of the physical and economic limitations on the uses of water-power and, particularly in the field of woollen-cloth production, the negative consequences of water-powered machinery, in the form of both fulling-mills and gig-mills (cloth-finishing), in impairing the quality of the finer fabrics. In particular, cost-benefit analyses are provided to show why the late-medieval English cloth industry did indeed achieve significant gains in switching from foot- to mechanical-fulling, while, at the same time, the leading draperies of the late-medieval Low Countries were perfectly rational in eschewing such mills before the 16th century – when they did indeed adopt them, for rather different types of textiles. On the other hand, and indeed in striking contrast, the application of water-power in the medieval production of silks and then especially in the 18th-century production of the new cotton textiles, with those major innovations of the Industrial Revolution era (water-frame and mule) had the opposite result: of greatly improving quality while also radically reducing production costs. Indeed quality-improvements in spinning cotton yarns was the chief goal of these entrepreneurs, with the ambition of displacing fine Asian textiles from world markets.
2002-04
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Munro, John H. (2002): Industrial energy from water-mills in the European economy, 5th to 18th Centuries: the limitations of power,. Published in: Economia ed energia, seccoli XIII - XVIII, Atti delle ‘Settimane di Studi’ e altrie Convegni, Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica, F. Datini , Vol. 34, No. 1 (2003): pp. 223-269.
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Policies for Industrial Learning in China and Mexico: Neo-developmental vs. Neo-liberal approaches
Shafaeddin, Mehdi
Gallaher, Kevin
O38 - Government Policy
O25 - Industrial Policy
O34 - Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital
I0 - General
O32 - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
L60 - General
O14 - Industrialization ; Manufacturing and Service Industries ; Choice of Technology
L63 - Microelectronics ; Computers ; Communications Equipment
N65 - Asia including Middle East
O30 - General
F10 - General
L52 - Industrial Policy ; Sectoral Planning Methods
I00 - General
O20 - General
O31 - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
P52 - Comparative Studies of Particular Economies
Abstract
Previous work has shown that the results of both China and Mexico’s export-led market reforms over the past quarter century have been strikingly different. In contrast to China, Mexico has not managed to increase the value added of its exports of manufactured goods and has subsequently had a difficult time competing with China in world markets. Building on this previous work, in this paper we conduct a comparative analysis of the role of government policies in industrial learning and the development of capabilities of indigenous firms in Mexico and China in order to shed light on why China is so outperforming Mexico. We find that Mexico and China have had starkly different approaches to economic reform in this area. Mexico’s approach to reform has been a “neo-liberal” one, whereas China’s could be described as “neo-developmental.” Mexico’s hands-off approach to learning has resulted in a lack of development of endogenous capacity of domestic firms, little transfer of technology, negligible progress in the upgrading of industrial production, and little increase in value added of exports. By contrast, China has deployed a hands-on approach of targeting and nurturing domestic firms through a gradual and trial and error led set of government policies.
2008-09
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Shafaeddin, Mehdi and Gallaher, Kevin (2008): Policies for Industrial Learning in China and Mexico: Neo-developmental vs. Neo-liberal approaches.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:12338
2019-09-27T00:00:12Z
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Export-orientation of Foreign Manufacturing Affiliates in India: Factors, Tendencies and Implications
Pradhan, Jaya Prakash
Das, Keshab
Paul, Mahua
F23 - Multinational Firms ; International Business
F10 - General
L60 - General
This paper addresses an important development issue in literature of international production, namely what motivates market‐seeking foreign direct investment (FDI) to undertake export activities. It is well recognized in the concerned literature that export‐oriented FDI is more beneficial for the host country than purely domestic market‐seeking FDI. Hence, many developing countries like India have policy concerns on foreign firms playing a very minimal role in their export activities. Various studies including that of UNCTAD (2003) noted that foreign direct investment (FDI) in Indian manufacturing has been and remains largely domestic market‐seeking. In view of this low export contribution by foreign firms, existing studies suggest that developing countries like India should improve their locational advantages to attract export‐oriented FDI as opposed to local market‐oriented FDI like quality of available infrastructure, availability of cheap but skilled manpower, expanding the size of export processing zones, participation in bilateral/multilateral trade and investment regimes, etc. However, these studies have not examined those factors that could motivate the existing market‐seeking FDI into export activities. The contribution of the present study is precisely to address this issue and identify factors encouraging market‐seeking FDI to take up export activities. The empirical analysis has been conducted in two stages. In the first stage, we have estimated the export shares and export‐orientation of foreign firms in Indian manufacturing across 17 Indian industries over 1991–2005. In the second stage, we have analyzed the impact of five set of factors—size and growth of host country market, local competition, policy regime, import competition and industry‐characteristics on the export‐orientation of foreign firms in Indian manufacturing. The empirical findings from the panel data analysis of 17 Indian industries over 1991–2005 has thrown up several policy implications important for increasing export‐orientation of foreign firms in a developing country like India.
2006-08
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/12338/1/MPRA_paper_12338.pdf
Pradhan, Jaya Prakash and Das, Keshab and Paul, Mahua (2006): Export-orientation of Foreign Manufacturing Affiliates in India: Factors, Tendencies and Implications.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:12460
2019-09-30T19:55:45Z
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The skill biased technological change in Turkish manufacturing industries
Eruygur, H. Ozan
O33 - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences ; Diffusion Processes
C01 - Econometrics
L60 - General
The skill biased technological change (SBTC) hypothesis relates earnings inequality to the change in technology with the hypothesis that technology increases the relative demand for skilled labor. In this paper we will investigate the evidence of SBTC hypothesis for two digit level 9 sectors in Turkey between 1982-1998. This paper is, in fact, a replication of Betts (1997) with Turkish data. The main finding of our study is the fact that there is no statistically significant support for skill biased technological change hypothesis for Turkish manufacturing sector between 1982 and 1998.
2003-06-22
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/12460/1/MPRA_paper_12460.pdf
Eruygur, H. Ozan (2003): The skill biased technological change in Turkish manufacturing industries.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:12758
2019-09-28T04:43:35Z
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Efficiency, Technological Progress and Regional Comparative Advantage: A Study of Organised Manufacturing Sector in India
Mukherjee, Dipa
Majumder, Rajarshi
E23 - Production
O33 - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences ; Diffusion Processes
D24 - Production ; Cost ; Capital ; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity ; Capacity
R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
L60 - General
Technological upgradation and increasing capital intensity in organised manufacturing sector in India has been championed on grounds of improving productivity, efficiency, and competitiveness. In a developing economy this is a costly proposition due to capital scarcity, and the effect of technological changes on productivity and efficiency levels have to be estimated before taking such policies. This paper seeks to estimate trends in Factor Productivity, Technological Progress, and Technological Efficiency in this sector and examines their relative importance also. Technical Efficiency is observed to be moderate and further declining in the nineties. Substantial disparity exists among regions and product groups regarding Efficiency, Technical Progress and Efficiency changes. It is found that increasing capital intensity has been associated with falling productivity, efficiency, and technological deceleration in the nineties. Wider diffusion rather than greater capital use is thus recommended for productivity rise. Regional efficiency matrix is also prepared so that states can focus on specific areas where they have comparative advantages.
2008
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/12758/1/MPRA_paper_12758.pdf
Mukherjee, Dipa and Majumder, Rajarshi (2008): Efficiency, Technological Progress and Regional Comparative Advantage: A Study of Organised Manufacturing Sector in India. Published in: Asia Pacific Development Journal , Vol. 14, No. 2
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:13496
2019-09-27T07:21:39Z
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Big Reforms but Small Payoffs: Explaining the Weak Record of Growth and Employment in Indian Manufacturing
Gupta, Poonam
Hasan, Rana
Kumar, Utsav
H54 - Infrastructures ; Other Public Investment and Capital Stock
L51 - Economics of Regulation
O53 - Asia including Middle East
L52 - Industrial Policy ; Sectoral Planning Methods
P23 - Factor and Product Markets ; Industry Studies ; Population
L50 - General
L60 - General
India has undertaken extensive reforms in its manufacturing sector over the last two decades.
However, an acceleration of growth in manufacturing, and a corresponding increase in
employment, has eluded India. Why have the reforms not produced the intended results? Using
Annual Survey of Industries data at the three digit level for major Indian states, for 1980-2004,
we analyze the effects of the reforms that liberalized India’s industrial licensing regime on the
performance of registered manufacturing. We find that the performance of the manufacturing
sector is heterogeneous across states, as well as across industries. In particular, labor intensive
industries and industries dependent on infrastructure have not benefited much from reforms.
Industrial performance appears to be contingent on the state specific policy and economic
environment. States with relatively inflexible labor regulations have experienced slower growth
of labor-intensive industries and slower employment growth overall. Additionally, states with
relatively competitive product market regulations and with better infrastructure have experienced
larger benefits from reforms.
2009-02-18
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/13496/1/MPRA_paper_13496.pdf
Gupta, Poonam and Hasan, Rana and Kumar, Utsav (2009): Big Reforms but Small Payoffs: Explaining the Weak Record of Growth and Employment in Indian Manufacturing.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:15905
2019-10-03T17:42:53Z
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The Growth of Business Firms: Theoretical Framework and Empirical Evidence
Fu, Dongfeng
Pammolli, Fabio
Buldyrev, Sergey V.
Riccaboni, Massimo
Matia, Kaushik
Yamasaki, Kazuko
Stanley, H. Eugene
D21 - Firm Behavior: Theory
L25 - Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope
O47 - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth ; Aggregate Productivity ; Cross-Country Output Convergence
D39 - Other
E01 - Measurement and Data on National Income and Product Accounts and Wealth ; Environmental Accounts
L00 - General
L60 - General
L65 - Chemicals ; Rubber ; Drugs ; Biotechnology
L16 - Industrial Organization and Macroeconomics: Industrial Structure and Structural Change ; Industrial Price Indices
E17 - Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
We introduce a model of proportional growth to explain the distribution of business firm growth rates. The model predicts that it is exponential in the central part and depicts an asymptotic power-law behavior in the tails with an exponent ζ = 3. Because of data limitations, previous studies in this field have been focusing exclusively on the Laplace shape of the body of the distribution. In this article, we test the model at different levels of aggregation in the economy, from products to firms to countries, and we find that the model’s predictions agree with empirical growth distributions and size-variance relationships.
2005
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/15905/1/MPRA_paper_15905.pdf
Fu, Dongfeng and Pammolli, Fabio and Buldyrev, Sergey V. and Riccaboni, Massimo and Matia, Kaushik and Yamasaki, Kazuko and Stanley, H. Eugene (2005): The Growth of Business Firms: Theoretical Framework and Empirical Evidence. Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , Vol. 102, No. 52 (19 December 2005): pp. 18801-18806.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:15907
2019-10-10T14:04:56Z
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Betweenness Centrality of Fractal and Non-Fractal Scale-Free Model Networks and Tests on Real Networks
Kitsak, Maksim
Havlin, Shlomo
Paul, Gerald
Riccaboni, Massimo
Pammolli, Fabio
Stanley, H. Eugene
L65 - Chemicals ; Rubber ; Drugs ; Biotechnology
L25 - Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope
O30 - General
E17 - Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
L60 - General
L00 - General
L63 - Microelectronics ; Computers ; Communications Equipment
We study the betweenness centrality of fractal and non-fractal scale-free network models as well as real networks. We show that the correlation between degree and betweenness centrality C of nodes is much weaker in fractal network models compared to non-fractal models. We also show that nodes of both fractal and non-fractal scale-free networks have power law betweenness centrality distribution P(C) ~ C^δ. We find that for non-fractal scale-free networks δ = -2, and for fractal scale-free networks δ = -2 + 1/dB, where dB is the dimension of the fractal network. We support
these results by explicit calculations on four real networks: pharmaceutical firms (N = 6776), yeast
(N = 1458), WWW (N = 2526), and a sample of Internet network at AS level (N = 20566), where N is the number of nodes in the largest connected component of a network. We also study the crossover phenomenon from fractal to non-fractal networks upon adding random edges to a fractal network. We show that the crossover length ℓ*, separating fractal and non-fractal regimes, scales with dimension dB of the network as p−1/dB, where p is the density of random edges added to the network. We find that the correlation between degree and betweenness centrality increases with p.
2007-05-31
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/15907/1/MPRA_paper_15907.pdf
Kitsak, Maksim and Havlin, Shlomo and Paul, Gerald and Riccaboni, Massimo and Pammolli, Fabio and Stanley, H. Eugene (2007): Betweenness Centrality of Fractal and Non-Fractal Scale-Free Model Networks and Tests on Real Networks. Published in: Physical Review E , Vol. 75, No. 5 (31 May 2007): 056115.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:15908
2019-09-28T15:03:46Z
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Preferential attachment and growth dynamics in complex systems
Yamasaki, Kazuko
Matia, Kaushik
Buldyrev, Sergey V.
Fu, Dongfeng
Pammolli, Fabio
Riccaboni, Massimo
Stanley, H. Eugene
D21 - Firm Behavior: Theory
L25 - Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope
D39 - Other
L00 - General
L60 - General
L16 - Industrial Organization and Macroeconomics: Industrial Structure and Structural Change ; Industrial Price Indices
L65 - Chemicals ; Rubber ; Drugs ; Biotechnology
E17 - Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
Complex systems can be characterized by classes of equivalency of their elements defined according to system specific rules. We propose a generalized preferential attachment model to describe the class size distribution. The model postulates preferential growth of the existing classes and the steady influx of new classes. According to the model, the distribution changes from a pure exponential form for zero influx of new classes to a power law with an exponential cut-off form when the influx of new classes is substantial. Predictions of the model are tested through the analysis of a unique industrial database, which covers both elementary units (products) and classes (markets, firms) in a given industry (pharmaceuticals), covering the entire size distribution. The model’s predictions are in good agreement with the data. The paper sheds light on the emergence of the exponent τ ≈ 2 observed as a universal feature of many biological, social and economic problems.
2004-06-26
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Yamasaki, Kazuko and Matia, Kaushik and Buldyrev, Sergey V. and Fu, Dongfeng and Pammolli, Fabio and Riccaboni, Massimo and Stanley, H. Eugene (2004): Preferential attachment and growth dynamics in complex systems. Published in: Physical Review E , Vol. 74, No. 3 (21 September 2006): 0351031-0351034.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:15980
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A Generalized Preferential Attachment Model for Business Firms Growth Rates: II. Mathematical Treatment
Buldyrev, Sergey V.
Pammolli, Fabio
Riccaboni, Massimo
Yamasaki, Kazuko
Fu, Dongfeng
Matia, Kaushik
Stanley, H. Eugene
L25 - Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope
D21 - Firm Behavior: Theory
O47 - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth ; Aggregate Productivity ; Cross-Country Output Convergence
D39 - Other
L00 - General
L60 - General
L65 - Chemicals ; Rubber ; Drugs ; Biotechnology
L16 - Industrial Organization and Macroeconomics: Industrial Structure and Structural Change ; Industrial Price Indices
E17 - Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
We present a preferential attachment growth model to obtain the distribution P(K) of number of units K in the classes which may represent business firms or other socio-economic entities. We found that P(K) is described in its central part by a power law with an exponent φ = 2+b/(1−b) which depends on the probability of entry of new classes, b. In a particular problem of city population this distribution is equivalent to the well known Zipf law. In the absence of the new classes entry, the distribution P(K) is exponential. Using analytical form of P(K) and assuming proportional growth for units, we derive P(g), the distribution of business firm growth rates. The model predicts that P(g) has a Laplacian cusp in the central part and asymptotic power-law tails with an exponent ζ = 3. We test the analytical expressions derived using heuristic arguments by simulations. The model might also explain the size-variance relationship of the firm growth rates.
2006-08-31
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Buldyrev, Sergey V. and Pammolli, Fabio and Riccaboni, Massimo and Yamasaki, Kazuko and Fu, Dongfeng and Matia, Kaushik and Stanley, H. Eugene (2006): A Generalized Preferential Attachment Model for Business Firms Growth Rates: II. Mathematical Treatment. Published in: The European Physical Journal B , Vol. 57, No. 2 (May 2007): pp. 131-138.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:15983
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A Generalized Preferential Attachment Model for Business Firms Growth Rates: I. Empirical Evidence
Pammolli, Fabio
Fu, Dongfeng
Buldyrev, Sergey V.
Riccaboni, Massimo
Matia, Kaushik
Yamasaki, Kazuko
Stanley, H. Eugene
D21 - Firm Behavior: Theory
L25 - Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope
E01 - Measurement and Data on National Income and Product Accounts and Wealth ; Environmental Accounts
L00 - General
L60 - General
L65 - Chemicals ; Rubber ; Drugs ; Biotechnology
L16 - Industrial Organization and Macroeconomics: Industrial Structure and Structural Change ; Industrial Price Indices
E17 - Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
We introduce a model of proportional growth to explain the distribution P(g) of business firm growth rates. The model predicts that P(g) is Laplace in the central part and depicts an asymptotic power-law behavior in the tails with an exponent ζ = 3. Because of data limitations, previous studies in this field have been focusing exclusively on the Laplace shape of the body of the distribution. We test the model at different levels of aggregation in the economy, from products, to firms, to countries, and we find that the its predictions are in good agreement with empirical evidence on both growth distributions and size-variance relationships.
2006-08-31
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Pammolli, Fabio and Fu, Dongfeng and Buldyrev, Sergey V. and Riccaboni, Massimo and Matia, Kaushik and Yamasaki, Kazuko and Stanley, H. Eugene (2006): A Generalized Preferential Attachment Model for Business Firms Growth Rates: I. Empirical Evidence. Published in: The European Physical Journal B , Vol. 57, No. 2 (16 May 2007): pp. 127-130.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:16344
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Analysis of Innovation and Energy Profiles in the Turkish Manufacturing Sector
Okay, Nesrin
Konukman, Alp Er S.
Akman, Ugur
Q48 - Government Policy
Q55 - Technological Innovation
L52 - Industrial Policy ; Sectoral Planning Methods
O3 - Innovation ; Research and Development ; Technological Change ; Intellectual Property Rights
Q43 - Energy and the Macroeconomy
L60 - General
Q4 - Energy
We present Turkey’s manufacturing-sector innovation data and, for the first
time, analyze likely relationships among GDP growth, sectoral innovation
intensities, energy consumptions, and energy-saving potentials. We detect a
power-law-like relationship between the projected energy-saving potentials and
realized energy consumptions of the manufacturing-sector groups. We observe
that the energy consumptions of the sectors do not change significantly despite
varying innovation levels during transitions from economic crisis and recovery
periods. We conclude that the Turkey’s manufacturing sectors’ energy
consumptions are insensitive to their innovation levels, or their innovation
activities are not energy-efficiency- and energy-saving-oriented, reflecting
Turkey’s past supply-oriented energy policy. The leader innovating sectors are,
nevertheless, expected to contribute more to Turkey’s energy-saving and energyefficiency
policies if their innovation potentials can be directed to achieve higher
energy savings and energy efficiencies via government incentives within the
agenda of the recent energy-efficiency and R&D laws.
2009-07-19
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Okay, Nesrin and Konukman, Alp Er S. and Akman, Ugur (2009): Analysis of Innovation and Energy Profiles in the Turkish Manufacturing Sector.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:16779
2019-10-02T00:35:38Z
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Analysis of Innovation and Energy Profiles in the Turkish Manufacturing Sector
Okay, Nesrin
Konukman, Alp Er S.
Akman, Ugur
Q48 - Government Policy
Q55 - Technological Innovation
L52 - Industrial Policy ; Sectoral Planning Methods
O3 - Innovation ; Research and Development ; Technological Change ; Intellectual Property Rights
Q43 - Energy and the Macroeconomy
L60 - General
Q4 - Energy
We present Turkey’s manufacturing-sector innovation data and, for the first
time, analyze likely relationships among GDP growth, sectoral innovation
intensities, energy consumptions, and energy-saving potentials. We detect a
power-law-like relationship between the projected energy-saving potentials and
realized energy consumptions of the manufacturing-sector groups. We observe
that the energy consumptions of the sectors do not change significantly despite
varying innovation levels during transitions from economic crisis and recovery
periods. We conclude that the Turkey’s manufacturing sectors’ energy
consumptions are insensitive to their innovation levels, or their innovation
activities are not energy-efficiency- and energy-saving-oriented, reflecting
Turkey’s past supply-oriented energy policy. The leader innovating sectors are,
nevertheless, expected to contribute more to Turkey’s energy-saving and energyefficiency
policies if their innovation potentials can be directed to achieve higher
energy savings and energy efficiencies via government incentives within the
agenda of the recent energy-efficiency and R&D laws.
2009-07-19
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/16779/1/MPRA_paper_16779.pdf
Okay, Nesrin and Konukman, Alp Er S. and Akman, Ugur (2009): Analysis of Innovation and Energy Profiles in the Turkish Manufacturing Sector.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:16919
2019-09-27T16:51:28Z
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Economic reform and Productivity Growth in Indian Paper and Paper Products Industry: A Nonparametric Analysis
Chirayil, Anish
O25 - Industrial Policy
D24 - Production ; Cost ; Capital ; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity ; Capacity
L60 - General
This paper applied the Malmquist Productivity Index in order to estimate total factor productivity growth and its components (efficiency change and technological progress) in Indian paper and paper products industry during pre and post-reform period. The obtained estimates of TFP change at the aggregate and sectoral level, indicates that the net impact of economic reforms on the productivity growth of paper and paper products industry was negative. It was evident in the study that the negative TFP change was decreased (from -8.6% to -5.2%) in the post-reform period in paper and paper products industry at the aggregate level. It was found in this study that the technical efficiency change and the technical change was the deteriorating factor for productivity change in Indian paper and paper products industry. Among similar trends were observed at the sub-sectoral level also. Further, the results of this study suggest that specific policies should be implemented in order to improve efficiency as well as technical progress, thus ultimately facilitating long-run productivity growth.
2008-12
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/16919/1/MPRA_paper_16919.pdf
Chirayil, Anish (2008): Economic reform and Productivity Growth in Indian Paper and Paper Products Industry: A Nonparametric Analysis.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:17307
2019-09-27T22:17:10Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/17307/
Industry Effects of Monetary Policy: Evidence from India
Ghosh, Saibal
E52 - Monetary Policy
L60 - General
The study exploits 2-digit level industry data for the period 1981-2004 to ascertain the interlinkage between a monetary policy shock and industry value added. Accordingly, we first estimate a Vector Auto Regression (VAR) model to ascertain the magnitude of a monetary policy shock on industrial output. Subsequently, we try to explain the observed heterogeneity in terms of industry characteristics. The findings indicate that (a) industries exhibit differential response to a monetary tightening and (b) both interest rate and financial accelerator variables tend to be important in explaining the differential response.
2009-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/17307/1/MPRA_paper_17307.pdf
Ghosh, Saibal (2009): Industry Effects of Monetary Policy: Evidence from India. Published in: Indian Economic Review , Vol. 44, No. 1 (January 2009): pp. 89-105.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:17717
2019-09-29T04:23:24Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/17717/
Factors driving the firms decision to export. Firm-level evidence from Poland.
Hagemejer, Jan
D21 - Firm Behavior: Theory
F10 - General
F14 - Empirical Studies of Trade
L60 - General
The model by Melitz (2003) predicts that if firms differ in their productivity (TFP) and there exists a fixed costs of entry to export markets, firms begin exporting if productivity exceeds a certain threshold value. Productivity is thus a crucial factor behind firms' export market participation.
To verify this, I estimate a simple probit model of the firms decision to export, based on the Polish manufacturing firm-level data. Estimation of productivity of individual firms is troublesome as the standard OLS method produces biased estimates due to the endogeneity of factor choice. I use a multi-stage semi-parametric approach, as proposed by Olley and Pakes (1996) controlling for endogeneity and the bias caused by firms exiting and entering the sample during the period under consideration. Besides determining the significance of the TFP coefficient in the probit regression, I examine the paths of productivity of firms entering the export market and make an attempt to identify the potential learning-by-exporting effects.
2007-06-06
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/17717/1/MPRA_paper_17717.pdf
Hagemejer, Jan (2007): Factors driving the firms decision to export. Firm-level evidence from Poland.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:18457
2019-09-30T16:43:12Z
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7375626A656374733D4C:4C36:4C3630
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/18457/
Distretti industriali e anelli affini
Tattara, Giuseppe
Volpe, Mario
pitingaro, serafino
L16 - Industrial Organization and Macroeconomics: Industrial Structure and Structural Change ; Industrial Price Indices
O18 - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis ; Housing ; Infrastructure
O14 - Industrialization ; Manufacturing and Service Industries ; Choice of Technology
L60 - General
Industrial districts palyed a very important role in the Italian economic development. This paper provides fresh evidence based on microdata (Veneto Worker Histories) and discusses the ambiguities in the district definition, its uncertain boundaries and the development into territorial affinities as economic development progresses.
2001
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/18457/1/MPRA_paper_18457.pdf
Tattara, Giuseppe and Volpe, Mario and pitingaro, serafino (2001): Distretti industriali e anelli affini. Published in: il caleidoscopio dello sviluppo locale (2001): pp. 117-142.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:18553
2019-09-27T16:43:21Z
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74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/18553/
Technological learning in six firms in Southern China: success and limits of an industrialisation model
Arvanitis, Rigas
Zhao, Wei
Qiu, Haixiong
Xu, Jian-niu
O32 - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
L60 - General
O14 - Industrialization ; Manufacturing and Service Industries ; Choice of Technology
This article examines the creation of industrial enterprises and the
basic models of firm-level technological learning behaviour of the last 20 years in China. Six case studies of technological learning and links to external sources of know-how from the South of China in the Pearl River Delta are examined. It is shown that the learning process that has been experienced in these enterprises is similar to that of other fast growing East Asian economies. Until now enterprises have been acquiring technology through external linkages with foreign clients that become their main providers of technology. A detailed account of the enterprises allows a typology of the external technological learning. It is claimed that the growth of the South China lies in this ‘external’ interactive technological learning, as in other East Asian economies.
2006
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/18553/1/MPRA_paper_18553.pdf
Arvanitis, Rigas and Zhao, Wei and Qiu, Haixiong and Xu, Jian-niu (2006): Technological learning in six firms in Southern China: success and limits of an industrialisation model. Published in: International Journal of Technology Management , Vol. 33, No. 1/2/3 (2006): pp. 108-125.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:20534
2019-09-27T23:54:40Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/20534/
The Relocation of Russian Industry 1987-1993
Huber, Peter
Nagaev, sergei
Wörgötter, Andreas
P23 - Factor and Product Markets ; Industry Studies ; Population
D24 - Production ; Cost ; Capital ; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity ; Capacity
L60 - General
This study is about the effects reforms have had on industry's dispersion in Russia. We use data on regional production by industry reaching from 1987 to 1993 to consider to what extent the division of labor among regions has changed during this time period. In particular we address three issues on an industry by industry basis: Have there been significant changes in the localization of industries and have the changes been associated with
concentration or diversification? Are there significant changes in the relative productivity's of industries in regions? Is there a connection between productivity changes and changes in localization?
1996
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/20534/1/MPRA_paper_20534.pdf
Huber, Peter and Nagaev, sergei and Wörgötter, Andreas (1996): The Relocation of Russian Industry 1987-1993.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:21960
2019-09-28T04:47:10Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/21960/
Plant entry in a more liberalised industrialisation process: an experience of Indonesian manufacturing during the 1990s
Narjoko, Dionisius
L16 - Industrial Organization and Macroeconomics: Industrial Structure and Structural Change ; Industrial Price Indices
F15 - Economic Integration
L60 - General
Some major policy changes towards a more open trade and investment regime occurred in Indonesia during the 1980s and 1990s. The impact of these policy changes on the country’s industrialisation has been generally favourable. However, little is known about the impact on the dynamics of plant in the country’s manufacturing. This study addresses this subject, examining the extent and determinants of plant entry in Indonesian manufacturing over the period 1993-96, and asking how the policy reforms affected plant entry. The key finding suggests that the policy reforms increased the extent of competition within industry. This, however, does not seem to be very strong, and the study puts forward some possible explanations. The discussion reaches a consensus that maybe, during the period under this study, the process of the reform had not really been completed and, at the same time, the (predicted) positive impact of the liberalisation had not been fully realised.
2009-03-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/21960/1/MPRA_paper_21960.pdf
Narjoko, Dionisius (2009): Plant entry in a more liberalised industrialisation process: an experience of Indonesian manufacturing during the 1990s.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:22652
2019-09-27T16:32:55Z
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7375626A656374733D46:4631:463132
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/22652/
The effect of international trade on mark-ups distribution
Moreno, L
Rodríguez, D
F12 - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies ; Fragmentation
L60 - General
This paper presents empirical evidence about the relationship between market openness and markup distribution of manufacturing firms. The empirical analysis uses a panel data set of Spanish firms in the period 1990-2005, with a structural approach that lets us to identify individual mark-ups. The results point out that tougher competition associated to openness reduces the average of marginal costs and prices, while it increases the average firm size. However, the evidence about the effect on average markups and the dispersion of performance variables is weaker. These results partially support the theoretical predictions by the recent literature on efficiency heterogeneity and international trade and, in particular, Melitz and Ottaviano (2008).
2009
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/22652/5/MPRA_paper_22652.pdf
Moreno, L and Rodríguez, D (2009): The effect of international trade on mark-ups distribution.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:22658
2019-10-05T03:31:33Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/22658/
Learning-by-Exporting and Destination Effects: Evidence from African SMEs
Boermans, Martijn Adriaan
D21 - Firm Behavior: Theory
O55 - Africa
F14 - Empirical Studies of Trade
O12 - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
L60 - General
Vast empirical evidence underscores that exporting firms are more productive than non-exporters. As governments accordingly pursue export-promoting policies we are interested in the firmness of these conclusions with respect to African small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and the influence of the destination of export trade. Using a micro-panel dataset from five African countries we confirm the self-selection. We apply propensity scores to match exporters and use a difference-in-difference methodology to test if African SMEs experience productivity gains because of export participation. Results indicate that African firms significantly learn-by-exporting. Manufacturers obtain significant performance improvements due to internationalization although this effect is moderated by export destination. Firms that export outside Africa become more capital intensive and at the same time hire more workers. In contrast we find evidence that exporters within the African region significantly downsize in capital intensity. Results regarding skill-bias of internationally active firms are mixed, where exporters within the region expand in size and hire more relatively unskilled workers.
2010-03-21
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/22658/1/MPRA_paper_22658.pdf
Boermans, Martijn Adriaan (2010): Learning-by-Exporting and Destination Effects: Evidence from African SMEs.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:23006
2019-09-28T00:14:46Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/23006/
Innovation and job creation in a dual labor market: Evidence from Spain
Stucchi, Rodolfo
Giuliodori, David
J21 - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
J38 - Public Policy
O31 - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
L60 - General
This paper studies the effect of product and process innovations on the creation of jobs in the Spanish manufacturing sector over the period 1991-2005. We also use a change in the Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) in 1997 to study the effect of innovations on permanent and temporary workers before and after that change. We find that both product and process innovation created jobs in the Spanish manufacturing sector. Additionally, we find that before the change in the EPL in 1997 innovations did not affect the number of permanent workers and all the increase in employment was explained by the increase in the number of temporary workers. After the change in the labor regulations, innovations increased both the number of temporary and permanent employees. Interestingly, while the increase in temporary workers takes place after one year of the innovations, the increase in permanent workers occurs mainly two year after the innovations.
2010-05-31
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/23006/1/MPRA_paper_23006.pdf
Stucchi, Rodolfo and Giuliodori, David (2010): Innovation and job creation in a dual labor market: Evidence from Spain.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:23097
2019-09-26T08:32:00Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/23097/
Competitive Industrial Performance Index and It’s Drivers: Case of Turkey and Selected Countries
Kumral, Neşe
Değer, Çağaçan
Türkcan, Burcu
N60 - General, International, or Comparative
C23 - Panel Data Models ; Spatio-temporal Models
L60 - General
Competitiveness of manufacturing industry is regarded as one of the basic determinants of long run sustainable growth of a country. Therefore it is important to have an understanding of relative positions of countries in terms of competitiveness and determinants of competitive ability. This study aims to reveal the standing of Turkey in a group of countries and analyze determinants of competitive ability. The competitive industrial performance (CIP) index, taken to be an indicator of relative competitive ability, has been calculated for a sample of 33 countries for years 1985, 1990, 1998 and 2002. Panel data methods then have been employed to reveal sources of competitive
ability. Conducted analysis reveals Turkish manufacturing industry to be lagging behind many of the sample countries and presents a grim picture for sustainable development in
medium and long run.
2008
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/23097/1/MPRA_paper_23097.pdf
Kumral, Neşe and Değer, Çağaçan and Türkcan, Burcu (2008): Competitive Industrial Performance Index and It’s Drivers: Case of Turkey and Selected Countries.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:23182
2019-09-28T06:49:13Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/23182/
Market concentration measures and investment decisions in Mexican manufacturing firms.
Lopez-Mateo, Celina
Ruiz-Porras, Antonio
L22 - Firm Organization and Market Structure
L40 - General
L60 - General
We study how alternative measures of market concentration may explain investment decisions of Mexican manufacturing firms. The measures include the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index and the Dominance one. The first one is the traditional measure of market structure concentration. The Dominance Index is a competition measure used by Mexican regulators. The econometric assessments suggest that investment decisions of Mexican firms can be better explained by the Dominance Index measure than by the Herfindahl-Hirschman one. Thus our results suggest that the Mexican Dominance Index might be useful as a measure of market structure and competition. Such conclusion is based on several econometric assessments. In all cases we use certain characteristics of the firms (size, cash flows, investment opportunities and capital intensity) as control variables.
2010-02-17
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/23182/1/MPRA_paper_23182.pdf
Lopez-Mateo, Celina and Ruiz-Porras, Antonio (2010): Market concentration measures and investment decisions in Mexican manufacturing firms. Forthcoming in: Accounting and Taxation
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:23587
2019-10-04T02:41:47Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/23587/
Markups, bargaining power and offshoring: an empirical assessment
Moreno, L
Rodríguez, D
F16 - Trade and Labor Market Interactions
L60 - General
This paper tests the pro-competitive effect of imports on product and labour markets for Spanish manufacturing firms in the period 1990-2005. In doing so, it takes into account the type of imported products: final vs intermediate. Markups are estimated following the procedure suggested by Roeger (1995) and including an efficient bargaining model. The observed heterogeneity among firms is parameterized to consider additional product standardization and market concentration. The results support the Imports as Market Discipline hypothesis for importers of final goods, while firms that offshore intermediate inputs show similar markups to non-importers. Additionally, the union bargaining power is smaller the more final-goods oriented imports are and the more homogeneous is the type of goods elaborated by firms.
2010-04-10
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/23587/1/MPRA_paper_23587.pdf
Moreno, L and Rodríguez, D (2010): Markups, bargaining power and offshoring: an empirical assessment.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:24336
2019-09-27T07:05:42Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/24336/
The Determinants of Corporate Growth
Rosique, Francisco
L25 - Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope
L90 - General
O32 - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
C33 - Panel Data Models ; Spatio-temporal Models
G30 - General
L80 - General
L60 - General
L21 - Business Objectives of the Firm
D92 - Intertemporal Firm Choice, Investment, Capacity, and Financing
D24 - Production ; Cost ; Capital ; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity ; Capacity
M21 - Business Economics
L70 - General
Corporate Growth is a concept that has been widely treated in a specific way or as part of strategy theories, in definition and in econometric models and has also been studied in many different aspects and approaches. The author describes in depth the main variables affecting corporate growth and the underlying business processes.
This empirical research has focused on Sales, Profit-Cash Flow, Risk, Created Shareholder Value, Market Value and Overall Performance econometric models. These panel data models are based on the 500 Companies of the Standard & Poor’s 500. The methodology used has been very strict in identifying exogenous variables, walking through the different alternative econometric models, discussing results, and, in the end, describing the practical implications in today’s business corporate management.
We basically assume that the Functions/Departments act independently in the same company, many times with different objectives, and in this situation clear processes are key to clarify the situations, roles and responsibilities. We also assume that growth implies interactions among the different functions in a company and the CEO acts to lead and coach his immediate Directors as a referee of the key conflicts through his Operating Mechanism.
The objective of this PhD Dissertation is to clarify the business priorities and identify the most relevant variables in every process leading to the highest efficiency in reaching a sustainable and profitable growth. It covers the lack of academic studies on the nature and specific driving factors of corporate growth and provides a working framework for Entrepreneurs and Management leading to the Company’s success.
2010-06-23
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/24336/1/MPRA_paper_24336.pdf
Rosique, Francisco (2010): The Determinants of Corporate Growth.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:24792
2019-10-18T03:28:36Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/24792/
Market concentration measures and investment decisions in Mexican manufacturing firms.
Ruiz-Porras, Antonio
Lopez-Mateo, Celina
L22 - Firm Organization and Market Structure
L40 - General
L60 - General
We study how different measures of market concentration may explain investment decisions of Mexican manufacturing firms. The measures include the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index and the Dominance one. The first one is the traditional measure of market structure concentration. The Dominance Index is a competition measure used by Mexican regulators. The econometric assessments suggest that investment decisions of Mexican firms can be better explained by the Dominance Index measure than by the Herfindahl-Hirschman one. Thus our results suggest that the Mexican Dominance Index might be useful as a measure of market structure and competition. They also suggest that market concentration reduces investment. Such conclusions are based on several econometric assessments. In all cases we use certain characteristics of the firms (size, cash flows, investment opportunities and capital intensity) as control variables.
2010-02-17
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/24792/1/MPRA_paper_24792.pdf
Ruiz-Porras, Antonio and Lopez-Mateo, Celina (2010): Market concentration measures and investment decisions in Mexican manufacturing firms. Forthcoming in: Accounting and Taxation
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:24898
2019-09-26T22:04:54Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/24898/
Performance of Indian Manufacturing in the Post Reform Period
Gupta, Poonam
Kumar, Utsav
O10 - General
O53 - Asia including Middle East
L50 - General
L60 - General
Many emerging countries in recent decades have relied on a development strategy that focused primarily on promoting the manufacturing sector and the exports of manufactured goods. However, an acceleration of growth of output and employment in manufacturing has eluded India. This is despite the fact that the central focus of the reforms in the 1980s and 1990s was to unshackle the manufacturing sector. Instead it is the services sector which has grown rapidly, contributing about two-third of GDP growth in recent years. This paper discusses the reasons behind the modest performance of the manufacturing sector in India post reforms. It argues that there are many factors that have inhibited the growth of industrial sector in India. One major factor is the rigid and strict labor laws which have affected the industrial performance in a number of ways, by keeping the size of the establishments small, by not encouraging the production of labor intensive goods, by pushing activities to the unorganized sector, and by keeping the Indian industry uncompetitive. Besides the labor laws other factors that are responsible for the modest performance of the manufacturing sector include difficulty in the acquisition of land for industrial use, inadequate financing and infrastructure, and cumbersome business climate. The paper presents arguments and evidence which shows the importance of these factors.
2010-09-10
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/24898/1/MPRA_paper_24898.pdf
Gupta, Poonam and Kumar, Utsav (2010): Performance of Indian Manufacturing in the Post Reform Period. Forthcoming in:
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:25037
2019-10-02T08:54:40Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/25037/
Re-evaluating the success of the EPA's 33/50 program: evidence from facility participation
Martina, Vidovic
Neha, Khanna
Q53 - Air Pollution ; Water Pollution ; Noise ; Hazardous Waste ; Solid Waste ; Recycling
Q58 - Government Policy
L60 - General
Using previously unavailable data, we examine facility participation in the 33/50 Program and its effect on aggregate and toxicity weighted emissions between1991 and 1995 for a sample of facilities whose parent firms committed to the Program. By focusing on individual facilities we avoid the biases created by aggregating emissions across facilities. We find that while more polluting facilities within a firm were more likely to participate, even when we account for the toxicity of emissions, across firms there is no evidence of greater participation by facilities with higher emissions. Although emissions of the 33/50 chemicals fell over the years, we find that participation in the Program did not lead to the decline in the 33/50 releases generated by these facilities.
2010-08-16
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Martina, Vidovic and Neha, Khanna (2010): Re-evaluating the success of the EPA's 33/50 program: evidence from facility participation.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:25186
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Patterns of technological progress and corporate innovation
Waśniewski, Krzysztof
E22 - Investment ; Capital ; Intangible Capital ; Capacity
L71 - Mining, Extraction, and Refining: Hydrocarbon Fuels
D20 - General
D40 - General
L60 - General
B52 - Institutional ; Evolutionary
O3 - Innovation ; Research and Development ; Technological Change ; Intellectual Property Rights
L25 - Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope
D21 - Firm Behavior: Theory
D81 - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
L10 - General
C70 - General
L16 - Industrial Organization and Macroeconomics: Industrial Structure and Structural Change ; Industrial Price Indices
D03 - Behavioral Microeconomics: Underlying Principles
L21 - Business Objectives of the Firm
D52 - Incomplete Markets
D01 - Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles
D00 - General
The bulk of the global innovative effort takes place in 5 countries: USA, Japan and China as leaders, with France and United Kingdom as immediate followers, which all display, on the long run, a negative marginal value added on innovation. The present paper attempts to answer the following question: why does most of innovative activity takes place in markets apparently hostile to innovation, i.e. giving back negative marginal value added on innovation ? A model is introduced in which any market may be represented as a Selten’s extensive game, subgames of which are played as Harsanyi’s games with imperfect information, by a temporarily finite and changing set of players. The firms’ innovative activity is a Nash’s dynamic equilibrium in which innovating is rational though suboptimal, without premium on innovation being a real economic profit. The model is the theoretical framework for the study of six cases: Ford Motor, General Motors, Honda, Chevron, Akzo Nobel and IBM, which allow to conclude that firms do innovation either because they have to or because this is their comparative advantage and they can do it in an exceptionally efficient way. As economic growth is grounded in efficient business patterns and in some countries those business patterns shape themselves in the context of a strong exogenous pressure on innovation. This leads to the development of economies which, regardless its pace of economic growth and balance of payments, come to a point when marginal value added on innovation is negative. At this point, however, incentives to innovate do not disappear and firms continue to apply the same business patterns and thus do create scientific input which gives back negative marginal real output. This pattern of global technological progress seem to be quite durable, with financial markets that allow to compensate, by successful financial placements, the downturns of innovative projects.
2010-05
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/25186/1/MPRA_paper_25186.pdf
Waśniewski, Krzysztof (2010): Patterns of technological progress and corporate innovation.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:25237
2019-09-26T08:58:57Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/25237/
The separation of ownership and control and investment decisions in Mexican manufacturing firms
Ruiz-Porras, Antonio
Lopez-Mateo, Celina
G30 - General
L60 - General
We study how the ownership and control structures may explain investment decisions of Mexican manufacturing firms. We study them with aggregate indexes and the assessment of several regression sets. We use measures of ownership, management and agency costs. The econometric analysis uses longitudinal census data for 182 industries. Our findings support the claim that agency costs, as a measure of the separation of management and control, and firms` size can explain investment decisions. Furthermore the estimations support the necessity to include investment opportunities and cash flow as control variables. The coefficients of all variables are mostly significant and positive.
2010-09-20
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/25237/1/MPRA_paper_25237.pdf
Ruiz-Porras, Antonio and Lopez-Mateo, Celina (2010): The separation of ownership and control and investment decisions in Mexican manufacturing firms. Forthcoming in: International Business Research
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:25338
2019-09-29T06:52:35Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/25338/
Innovation in Nigerian SMEs: types and impact
Egbetokun, A
Siyanbola, W
Olamade, O
Adeniyi, A
Irefin, I
D21 - Firm Behavior: Theory
O55 - Africa
O32 - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
L60 - General
This paper seeks to explore the types of innovation that are predominant in SMEs in developing countries and to investigate the impact of these innovations on different dimensions of firm performance based on an industry-wide innovation survey carried out in Nigeria in 2007. Although innovation is important for superior firm performance, our result found that the type of innovation that SMEs pursue is not a critical consideration in their performance. While there was no difference found in the focus of SMEs on either of product or process innovations, evidence showed that SMEs would focus more on incremental product and process innovations. Incremental innovation was found to be very important for Nigerian SMEs and a significant predictor of product quality and not of revenue. The authors conclude that SMEs chooses to pursue such innovations that most fit their strategies and available resources. Such level of innovation affords Nigerian SMEs to more extensively exploit the domestic market but cannot support extensive new product development required to enter export markets.
2008
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/25338/3/MPRA_paper_25338.pdf
Egbetokun, A and Siyanbola, W and Olamade, O and Adeniyi, A and Irefin, I (2008): Innovation in Nigerian SMEs: types and impact.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:25343
2019-09-28T05:40:23Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/25343/
What Drives Innovation?: Inferences from an Industry-Wide Survey in Nigeria
Egbetokun, A
Siyanbola, W
Sanni, M
Olamade, O
Adeniyi, A
Irefin, I
O32 - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
L60 - General
L00 - General
This chapter seeks to make some contributions to the literature on firm-level innovation in Africa by attempting to identify the significant factors that explain the capability of firms in Nigeria to innovate using the results of an industry-wide study. We focused on the product and process innovation activities of firms between 2003 and 2006 and found differences in the factors that drive them at the firm level. Our results further show that interactions matter more than most innovation-related variables and that the most important actors that influence a firm’s innovation efforts are its customers and suppliers. We conclude that product and process innovations are not mutually exclusive and that a major key to successful innovation is how and with whom a firm collaborates. The implication of this for firms and policy makers is that an effectively wired innovation system where all stakeholders are active is critical for firm-level innovation capability.
2008
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/25343/2/MPRA_paper_25343.pdf
Egbetokun, A and Siyanbola, W and Sanni, M and Olamade, O and Adeniyi, A and Irefin, I (2008): What Drives Innovation?: Inferences from an Industry-Wide Survey in Nigeria. Published in: Int. J. Technology Management , Vol. 45, No. 1-2 (2009): pp. 123-140.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:25814
2019-09-28T23:20:02Z
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An Application of Constant Market Share Analysis for the Study of Firm Profitability
Marini, Giovanni
C43 - Index Numbers and Aggregation
M41 - Accounting
L60 - General
L70 - General
We propose a new decomposition of the return on investment (ROI) – the main accounting measure of firm profitability – to evaluate the contributions of its three components: the return on sales (ROS), the utilization (rotation) of working capital (RCC), and the utilization (rotation) of fixed capital (RCF). By using this decomposition we develop an original variant of the constant market share (CMS) analysis specifically for comparisons of firm average profitability between countries and over time. The proposed CMS methodology allows us to separate the variation of the average ROI over time (or its difference between two countries) in three components: a competitiveness effect – the difference of average ROI assuming the same reference structure for the two terms of comparison – a structure effect – the result of the difference in the internal articulation of the ROI by sector and by size structure within the two terms of comparison – and an adaptation effect, which takes into account the synergies between the two previous components. The decomposition of the ROI in the product of the three terms, ROS, RCC and RCF, plays an original role in the interpretation of the competitiveness effect. An application of the proposed methodology is carried out for the comparison of the average ROI in the industrial sector among Germany, Italy and France and over the years 2006-2008.
2010-09-28
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/25814/1/MPRA_paper_25814.pdf
Marini, Giovanni (2010): An Application of Constant Market Share Analysis for the Study of Firm Profitability.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:26609
2019-10-02T18:13:43Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/26609/
Interpreting markups in Spanish manufacturing: The exponential model
Corchón, Luis C.
Moreno, L.
L13 - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
L60 - General
In this paper we attempt to rationalize markups in a sample of Spanish manufacturing by assuming a representative consumer, profit-maximizing firms and constant returns to scale. We find that the standard forms of demand (CES and linear) do not provide a good explanation of markups. In contrast, a model where the representative consumer has an exponential utilty function yields results that match data more closely.
2010-11-02
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/26609/1/MPRA_paper_26609.pdf
Corchón, Luis C. and Moreno, L. (2010): Interpreting markups in Spanish manufacturing: The exponential model.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:27821
2019-10-01T18:23:16Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/27821/
Industrial Location in India under Liberalization
Saikia, Dilip
R3 - Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location
L60 - General
The economic liberalization policy initiated in the country since 1991 has made large-scale delicensing of industry and changes in the industrial location policies along with the stabilization-cum-structural adjustments of the economy. This curtailed the role of the state as industrial owner and location regulator and increases the role of private sector in industrialization. With the increasing dominance of private sector in industrialization under the liberalization policy it is expected that industries will be more spatially concentrated in the leading industrial regions. However, the neoclassical principle suggests that in the long run “divergence is followed by convergence”. This is in contrast with the theory that raises the question about the regional industrial development in India under the two policy regimes (an inward looking restrictive policy regime prior to 1980s and liberalization policy since 1991). The main objective of our study is to see whether there is convergence or divergence of industrial location and also the relative concentration of industries within the states in the post liberalization period, and thus, understands the influence of economic liberalization on industrial location in India. These two objectives are examined with the employment data of organized manufacturing sector for the pre- and post-reform periods using: first coefficient of variation of manufacturing employment, aggregated for all industries and second, location quotients and specialization coefficients, disaggregated into three use-based manufacturing sectors (consumer goods, intermediate goods and capital goods). Our study finds that there is more concentration of the manufacturing industries in the post liberalization period in India and the tendency to catch up the industrially developed states is hardly seen among the backward states, which suggest widening inter-regional divergence, as against the neo-classical principle “divergence followed by convergence”.
2009-02-29
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/27821/1/MPRA_paper_27821.pdf
Saikia, Dilip (2009): Industrial Location in India under Liberalization.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:27913
2019-09-30T16:50:54Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/27913/
Knowledge sourcing and firm performance in an industrializing economy: The case of Taiwan (1992-2003)
Chang, Chia-Lin
Robin, Stéphane
L25 - Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope
O33 - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences ; Diffusion Processes
L60 - General
We examine the impact of R&D and technology imports on firm performance in Taiwan’s manufacturing industry in a policy context of industrial upgrading. To do so, we estimate a Translog production function on two panels (covering 1992-1995 and 1997-2003), using stochastic frontier models. We find that the effects of both knowledge inputs become significant in a larger number of industries in the second panel. These results suggest that the policies encouraging innovation implemented from 1991 onwards paid off in the second half of the 1990s, with innovation driving firm sales. In traditional industries, the effect of innovation can be interpreted as an effort to catch up with the global technology frontier. In the electronics and high-technology industries, it rather testifies of the emergence of a new domain of specialization for Taiwan – which was largely enabled by the aforementioned innovation policies.
2010-12-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/27913/1/MPRA_paper_27913.pdf
Chang, Chia-Lin and Robin, Stéphane (2010): Knowledge sourcing and firm performance in an industrializing economy: The case of Taiwan (1992-2003).
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:28096
2019-09-26T19:44:51Z
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Regional heterogeneity and firms’ innovation: the role of regional factors in industrial R&D in India
Pradhan, Jaya Prakash
O18 - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis ; Housing ; Infrastructure
O30 - General
O32 - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
C21 - Cross-Sectional Models ; Spatial Models ; Treatment Effect Models ; Quantile Regressions
L60 - General
This study makes an early attempt to estimate the magnitude and intensity of manufacturing firms’ R&D by Indian states during the period 1991‒2008 and analyses the role of regional factors on firm-level R&D activities. As there is little research on state-wise R&D performance of firms in India, this study serves an important contribution to the academic and policy realm. It has brought out the fact the total manufacturing R&D investment in India is unevenly distributed regionally with a few states accounting for disproportionate share of it. Regional heterogeneity or inter-state disparities in R&D has increased between the 1990s and the first decade of the twenty-first century. In view of this persistent regional heterogeneity in R&D, the study has developed and estimated an empirical model for a sample of 4545 Indian manufacturing firms with R&D facilities located in single state and that explicitly includes regional factors as probable factors affecting R&D. The three-step Censored Quantitle Regression results confirm that regional factors play an important role in shaping the R&D intensity of the sample of firms. This led us to some useful policy suggestions for regional governments to promote local firms’ R&D activities.
2011-01-12
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/28096/1/MPRA_paper_28096.pdf
Pradhan, Jaya Prakash (2011): Regional heterogeneity and firms’ innovation: the role of regional factors in industrial R&D in India.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:28452
2019-09-27T23:10:32Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/28452/
Corporate governance, market competition and investment decisions in Mexican manufacturing firms
Ruiz-Porras, Antonio
Lopez-Mateo, Celina
G34 - Mergers ; Acquisitions ; Restructuring ; Corporate Governance
O16 - Financial Markets ; Saving and Capital Investment ; Corporate Finance and Governance
L22 - Firm Organization and Market Structure
L60 - General
We study how competition and corporate governance may explain investment decisions of Mexican manufacturing firms. We develop the study with indexes of market concentration and agency costs and OLS regressions. The analysis uses longitudinal census data. Our results suggest that investment is better explained by the Dominance Index, a Mexican measure of concentration, than by the Herfindahl-Hirschman one. They also suggest that agency costs (proxy for the degree of separation of ownership and control), and market competition may encourage investment decisions. Furthermore they suggest an inverse relationship between market competition and agency costs. We believe that our findings support the hypothesis that competition may be an alternative mechanism to encourage corporate practices in emerging economies.
2011-01-27
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/28452/1/MPRA_paper_28452.pdf
Ruiz-Porras, Antonio and Lopez-Mateo, Celina (2011): Corporate governance, market competition and investment decisions in Mexican manufacturing firms. Forthcoming in: Middle Eastern Finance and Economics
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:28679
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The Italian Position in the Energy and Climate Change Negotiations
Viviani, Carlo
H77 - Intergovernmental Relations ; Federalism ; Secession
D62 - Externalities
F23 - Multinational Firms ; International Business
D44 - Auctions
H23 - Externalities ; Redistributive Effects ; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
L60 - General
F42 - International Policy Coordination and Transmission
K32 - Environmental, Health, and Safety Law
F18 - Trade and Environment
F53 - International Agreements and Observance ; International Organizations
F21 - International Investment ; Long-Term Capital Movements
D78 - Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
O52 - Europe
Climate change, security and cost of energy supplies, and the competitiveness of firms and economies have been focal points of the general political and economic policy debate in recent years.
This article examines the choices in this field made at global level with the Kyoto Protocol and in Europe with the more recent “20-20-20” package from the standpoints of the Italian national interests and the negotiating stance adopted by our Government in European and international forums.
The European negotiations on renewable energy sources, the reduction of emissions in the sectors with and without emissions trading schemes, automobile emissions, the auctioning of emission rights, and the identification of industries exposed to the risk of delocalization (carbon leakage) are described in detail, including background data not previously available, and the reasons for Italy’s positions set forth.
The principle guiding Italian negotiators has been to balance the various policy aims, in an effort to ensure that the necessary action against climate change does not have excessive repercussions on growth and employment. The principle is all the more valid in the global talks on the regime that will succeed the Kyoto Protocol when it expires on 1 January 2013.
Without a credible global agreement entailing an equivalent commitment, or sectoral agreements, instruments will be needed to prevent Europe’s climate commitment from producing an unfair competitive disadvantage, with potentially serious social and economic consequences but no appreciable environmental advantage.
2010-11
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/28679/1/MPRA_paper_28679.pdf
Viviani, Carlo (2010): The Italian Position in the Energy and Climate Change Negotiations. Published in: Review of Economic Conditions in Italy , Vol. 2010, No. 2 (January 2011): pp. 231-278.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:29091
2019-10-02T19:27:00Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/29091/
R versus D: Estimating the differentiated effect of research and development on innovation results
Barge-Gil, Andrés
López, Alberto
O3 - Innovation ; Research and Development ; Technological Change ; Intellectual Property Rights
L60 - General
R&D is considered to be the main source of innovation. We argue that R&D is too broad a measure, including activities differing in purposes, culture, people, management and other features. However, empirical studies have not analyzed them separately, mainly due to the lack of data. Using firm-level data, the aim of this paper is to estimate the differentiated effect of research and development on different innovation outputs. Results show that both research and development activities are important. However, we find that development activities are more important for product innovation, while the effect of research activities is higher on process innovation. Moreover, we analyze differences by technological intensity of the sector. When analyzing product and process innovations, we find evidence supporting the existence of higher payoffs to development and, especially to research in low-tech sectors when compared with high-tech ones.
2011-02-23
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/29091/1/MPRA_paper_29091.pdf
Barge-Gil, Andrés and López, Alberto (2011): R versus D: Estimating the differentiated effect of research and development on innovation results.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:29728
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Productive and cognitive innovation strategy:African framework design
Nwaobi, Godwin C
Q50 - General
R10 - General
L90 - General
D20 - General
Q3 - Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation
O32 - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
L60 - General
Q2 - Renewable Resources and Conservation
O30 - General
Q40 - General
L26 - Entrepreneurship
M13 - New Firms ; Startups
O31 - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
Q10 - General
L70 - General
Since the mid 1900’s, economist have come to recognize the role of innovative activity in firms productivity growth, particularly in the competitive market economies. However, the most conducive market environment for innovative activity has also become a subject of interest. Thus, a major constraint on industrial dynamism in African countries is said to be the dearth of indigenous entrepreneurs. This paper therefore argued for the provision of comprehensive innovation policy, in which the government supports the innovators by providing appropriate financial measures; removing regulatory, institutional (competitive) obstacles to innovation; and strengthening the knowledge base through investment in education, research and industrial sites in Africa.
2011-03-21
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/29728/1/MPRA_paper_29728.pdf
Nwaobi, Godwin C (2011): Productive and cognitive innovation strategy:African framework design.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:29880
2019-09-28T23:27:00Z
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Problems in the structure of Romania’s economy
Albu, Lucian-Liviu
Georgescu, George
P20 - General
E26 - Informal Economy ; Underground Economy
P31 - Socialist Enterprises and Their Transitions
L60 - General
E60 - General
O11 - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
L16 - Industrial Organization and Macroeconomics: Industrial Structure and Structural Change ; Industrial Price Indices
E20 - General
The study focused on the early stage of Romania’s transition to the market economy during 1990-1992, based on statistical data available at that time. Because of the inherited structural distortions, the persistence of strong forces of inertia and the incoherence of economic and monetary policies, the transition to the market economy has been delayed in the early 1990’. In the absence of an adequate outline for de-monopolization and privatization of the economy, the liberalization of prices did not lead to an efficient resources allocation; on the contrary, the structural imbalances between demand and supply have deepened. The fall in industrial output and its poor competitiveness, due to the dominant position of this sector, has pushed the whole economy into a severe recession. A more rigorous management of the reform program, based on realistic assessments of opportunities and resources, with the help of more investments, including by the increase in foreign investments, should foster structural adjustments towards improving industrial performances and implicitly smoothing the way to the market economy.
1994-10
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/29880/1/MPRA_paper_29880.pdf
Albu, Lucian-Liviu and Georgescu, George (1994): Problems in the structure of Romania’s economy. Published in: (1995): pp. 285-336.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:30048
2019-09-26T09:52:28Z
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7375626A656374733D4F:4F33:4F3330
7375626A656374733D4F:4F34:4F3430
7375626A656374733D4C:4C36:4C3630
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/30048/
R&D and productivity in high-tech manufacturing: a comparison between Italy and Spain
Sterlacchini, Alessandro
Venturini, Francesco
O30 - General
O40 - General
L60 - General
Using data for twelve manufacturing industries over the period 1980-2006, we perform for Italy and Spain a dynamic panel estimation of the long-run elasticity of TFP with respect to R&D capital. The results show that in Spain high-tech industries have experienced a similar or slightly higher R&D elasticity than their Italian counterparts. This is mainly attributable to what occurred from the mid 1990s onwards when, thanks to increasing R&D efforts, the Spanish industries have been able to catch up with the respect to the Italian ones. The policy implications of the above findings are discussed.
2011-04-04
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/30048/1/MPRA_paper_30048.pdf
Sterlacchini, Alessandro and Venturini, Francesco (2011): R&D and productivity in high-tech manufacturing: a comparison between Italy and Spain.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:30431
2019-09-27T20:58:10Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D4E:4E36:4E3633
7375626A656374733D4E:4E39:4E3933
7375626A656374733D4C:4C36:4C3630
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/30431/
Patterns of industrial specialisation in post-Unification Italy
Ciccarelli, Carlo
Proietti, Tommaso
N63 - Europe: Pre-1913
N93 - Europe: Pre-1913
L60 - General
This paper investigates the patterns of sectoral specialisation in Italian provinces over
half a century following the Unification of the country. To this end we propose a
multivariate graphical technique named dynamic specialisation biplots.
In 1871 specialisation vocations toward the different manufacturing sectors were limited in size
and no clear geographical path emerged. A regional specialisation divide resulted clearly
in 1911. In 1871 as in 1911 the foodstuffs, the textile, and the engineering sectors represented the
three pillars delimiting the arena of the specialisation race. Within that
arena, sharp changes in the directions of specialisation trajectories
characterise a group of selected Northern provinces, largely attracted by the textile sector from the 1880s
and from the engineering sector in the pre-War decade.
Within region homogeneity and smooth specialisation trajectories are instead representative
of most of the remaining provinces. Among them, Southern provinces exhibit
specialisation paths revealing that little more than a composition effect occurred
among manufacturing sectors.
2011-04-21
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/30431/1/MPRA_paper_30431.pdf
Ciccarelli, Carlo and Proietti, Tommaso (2011): Patterns of industrial specialisation in post-Unification Italy.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:31215
2019-09-29T08:51:46Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D4A:4A32:4A3231
7375626A656374733D4A:4A33:4A3338
7375626A656374733D4F:4F33:4F3331
7375626A656374733D4C:4C36:4C3630
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/31215/
Innovation and job creation in a dual labor market: evidence from Spain
Giuliodori, David
Stucchi, Rodolfo
J21 - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
J38 - Public Policy
O31 - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
L60 - General
This paper studies the effect of product and process innovations on job creation in the Spanish manufacturing sector over the period 1991-2005. We use a change in the Employment Protection Legislation in 1997 to study the effect of innovations on permanent and temporary workers before and after that change. We find that: (i) product and process innovation created jobs, (ii) before the change in the EPL in 1997 innovations did not affect the number of permanent workers and all the increase in employment was explained by the increase in the number of temporary workers, (iii) after the change in the EPL, innovations increased both the number of temporary and permanent employees, and (iv) while the increase in temporary workers takes place after one year of the innovations, the increase in permanent workers occurs mainly two year after the innovations.
2010-05-31
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/31215/1/MPRA_paper_31215.pdf
Giuliodori, David and Stucchi, Rodolfo (2010): Innovation and job creation in a dual labor market: evidence from Spain.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:31297
2019-09-28T10:48:24Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D4A:4A32:4A3231
7375626A656374733D4A:4A33:4A3338
7375626A656374733D4F:4F33:4F3331
7375626A656374733D4C:4C36:4C3630
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/31297/
Innovation and job creation in a dual labor market: evidence from Spain
Giuliodori, David
Stucchi, Rodolfo
J21 - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
J38 - Public Policy
O31 - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
L60 - General
This paper studies the effect of product and process innovations on job creation in the Spanish manufacturing sector over the period 1991-2005. We use a change in the Employment Protection Legislation in 1997 to study the effect of innovations on permanent and temporary workers before and after that change. We find that: (i) product and process innovation created jobs, (ii) before the change in the EPL in 1997 innovations did not affect the number of permanent workers and all the increase in employment was explained by the increase in the number of temporary workers, (iii) after the change in the EPL, innovations increased both the number of temporary and permanent employees, and (iv) while the increase in temporary workers takes place after one year of the innovations, the increase in permanent workers occurs mainly two year after the innovations.
2010-05-31
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/31297/1/MPRA_paper_31297.pdf
Giuliodori, David and Stucchi, Rodolfo (2010): Innovation and job creation in a dual labor market: evidence from Spain.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:33365
2019-09-29T05:58:42Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D4F:4F31:4F3138
7375626A656374733D43:4332:433233
7375626A656374733D52:5231:523131
7375626A656374733D4C:4C36:4C3630
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/33365/
The convergence theories and the manufactured industry in Portugal
Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues
O18 - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis ; Housing ; Infrastructure
C23 - Panel Data Models ; Spatio-temporal Models
R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
L60 - General
The aim of this paper is to present a further contribution to the analysis of absolute convergence, associated with the neoclassical theory, of the manufactured industry productivity at regional level and for the periods from 1986 to 1994 and from 1995 to 1999. The main conclusions that should be noted is which the signs of convergence different between the several manufactured industries.
2011
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/33365/1/MPRA_paper_33365.pdf
Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues (2011): The convergence theories and the manufactured industry in Portugal.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:33371
2019-10-09T16:48:35Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D4F:4F31:4F3138
7375626A656374733D43:4332:433233
7375626A656374733D52:5231:523131
7375626A656374733D4C:4C36:4C3630
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/33371/
The Keynesian and the convergence theories in the Portuguese manufactured industry
Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues
O18 - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis ; Housing ; Infrastructure
C23 - Panel Data Models ; Spatio-temporal Models
R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
L60 - General
This work aims to test the Verdoorn Law, with the alternative specifications of (1)Kaldor (1966), for the five Portuguese regions (NUTS II), from 1986 to 1994. It is intended to test, yet in this work, the alternative interpretation of (2)Rowthorn (1975) about the Verdoorn's Law for the same regions and period. The results of this study are about each one of the manufactured industries operating in the Portuguese regions. The aim of this paper is, also, to present a further contribution to the analysis of absolute convergence, associated with the neoclassical theory, of the manufactured industry productivity at regional level and for the period from 1986 to 1994.
2011
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/33371/1/MPRA_paper_33371.pdf
Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues (2011): The Keynesian and the convergence theories in the Portuguese manufactured industry.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:33373
2019-09-27T07:10:40Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D4F:4F31:4F3138
7375626A656374733D43:4332:433233
7375626A656374733D52:5231:523131
7375626A656374733D4C:4C36:4C3630
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/33373/
The Keynesian and the convergence theories in the Portuguese manufactured industry. Another approach
Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues
O18 - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis ; Housing ; Infrastructure
C23 - Panel Data Models ; Spatio-temporal Models
R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
L60 - General
The aim of this paper is to present a further contribution to the analysis of absolute convergence, associated with the neoclassical theory, of the manufactured industry productivity at regional level and for the period from 1995 to 1999. This work aims, also, to test the Verdoorn Law, with the alternative specifications of (1)Kaldor (1966), for the five Portuguese regions (NUTS II), from 1995 to 1999. It is intended to test, yet in this work, the alternative interpretation of (2)Rowthorn (1975) about the Verdoorn's Law for the same regions and period.
2011
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/33373/1/MPRA_paper_33373.pdf
Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues (2011): The Keynesian and the convergence theories in the Portuguese manufactured industry. Another approach.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:33404
2019-09-28T17:43:29Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D4F:4F31:4F3138
7375626A656374733D43:4332:433233
7375626A656374733D52:5231:523131
7375626A656374733D4C:4C36:4C3630
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/33404/
The Keynesian theory and the geographic concentration in the Portuguese manufactured industry
Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues
O18 - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis ; Housing ; Infrastructure
C23 - Panel Data Models ; Spatio-temporal Models
R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
L60 - General
This work aims to test the Verdoorn Law, with the alternative specifications of (1)Kaldor (1966), for the five Portuguese regions (NUTS II), from 1986 to 1994. It is intended to test, yet in this work, the alternative interpretation of (2)Rowthorn (1975) about the Verdoorn's Law for the same regions and period. The results of this study are about each one of the manufactured industries operating in the Portuguese regions. This paper pretends, also, to analyze the importance which the natural advantages and local resources are in the manufacturing industry location, in relation with the "spillovers" effects and industrial policies. To this, we estimate the Rybczynski equation matrix for the various manufacturing industries in Portugal, at regional level (NUTS II) and for the period 1986 to 1994.
2011
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/33404/1/MPRA_paper_33404.pdf
Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues (2011): The Keynesian theory and the geographic concentration in the Portuguese manufactured industry.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:33406
2019-10-01T05:18:09Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D4F:4F31:4F3138
7375626A656374733D43:4332:433233
7375626A656374733D52:5231:523131
7375626A656374733D4C:4C36:4C3630
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/33406/
The Keynesian theory and the geographic concentration in the Portuguese manufactured industry. Another analysis
Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues
O18 - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis ; Housing ; Infrastructure
C23 - Panel Data Models ; Spatio-temporal Models
R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
L60 - General
This work aims to test the Verdoorn Law, with the alternative specifications of (1)Kaldor (1966), for the five Portuguese regions (NUTS II), from 1995 to 1999. It is intended to test, yet in this work, the alternative interpretation of (2)Rowthorn (1975) about the Verdoorn's Law for the same regions and period. The results of this study are about each one of the manufactured industries operating in the Portuguese regions. This paper pretends, also, to analyze the importance which the natural advantages and local resources are in the manufacturing industry location, in relation with the "spillovers" effects and industrial policies. To this, we estimate the Rybczynski equation matrix for the various manufacturing industries in Portugal, at regional level (NUTS II) and for the period 1995 to 1999.
2011
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/33406/1/MPRA_paper_33406.pdf
Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues (2011): The Keynesian theory and the geographic concentration in the Portuguese manufactured industry. Another analysis.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:33407
2019-09-28T16:29:09Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D4F:4F31:4F3138
7375626A656374733D43:4332:433233
7375626A656374733D52:5231:523131
7375626A656374733D4C:4C36:4C3630
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/33407/
The convergence theories and the geographic concentration in the Portuguese manufactured industry. Another approach
Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues
O18 - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis ; Housing ; Infrastructure
C23 - Panel Data Models ; Spatio-temporal Models
R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
L60 - General
The aim of this paper is to present a further contribution to the analysis of absolute convergence, associated with the neoclassical theory, of the manufactured industry productivity at regional level and for the period from 1995 to 1999 (1)(Martinho, 2011a). This paper pretends, also, to analyze the importance which the natural advantages and local resources are in the manufacturing industry location, in relation with the "spillovers" effects and industrial policies. To this, we estimate the Rybczynski equation matrix for the various manufacturing industries in Portugal, at regional level (NUTS II) and for the period 1995 to 1999 (2)(Martinho, 2011b).
2011
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/33407/1/MPRA_paper_33407.pdf
Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues (2011): The convergence theories and the geographic concentration in the Portuguese manufactured industry. Another approach.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:33411
2019-09-28T14:50:15Z
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7375626A656374733D4F:4F31:4F3138
7375626A656374733D43:4332:433233
7375626A656374733D52:5231:523131
7375626A656374733D4C:4C36:4C3630
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/33411/
The convergence theories and the geographic concentration in the Portuguese manufactured industry
Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues
O18 - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis ; Housing ; Infrastructure
C23 - Panel Data Models ; Spatio-temporal Models
R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
L60 - General
The aim of this paper is to present a further contribution to the analysis of absolute convergence, associated with the neoclassical theory, of the manufactured industry productivity at regional level and for the period from 1986 to 1994 (1)(Martinho, 2011a). This paper pretends, also, to analyze the importance which the natural advantages and local resources are in the manufacturing industry location, in relation with the "spillovers" effects and industrial policies. To this, we estimate the Rybczynski equation matrix for the various manufacturing industries in Portugal, at regional level (NUTS II) and for the period 1986 to 1994 (2)(Martinho, 2011b).
2011
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/33411/1/MPRA_paper_33411.pdf
Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues (2011): The convergence theories and the geographic concentration in the Portuguese manufactured industry.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:33460
2019-09-27T16:48:12Z
7374617475733D707562
7375626A656374733D4F:4F34:4F3437
7375626A656374733D45:4530:453031
7375626A656374733D4C:4C36:4C3630
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/33460/
The adoption of the European System of Accounts 1995 framework in the national accounts of Malta
Grech, Aaron George
Pace, Christopher
O47 - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth ; Aggregate Productivity ; Cross-Country Output Convergence
E01 - Measurement and Data on National Income and Product Accounts and Wealth ; Environmental Accounts
L60 - General
The release of ESA 1995 GDP data for Malta has ushered in great changes in the way in which the Maltese economy can be analysed. Indicators computed from the new national accounts reveal that the Maltese economy has achieved a relatively high degree of convergence with the European average, especially when compared with other new Member States. However some industries which are less subject to competitive pressures under-perform compared with their European counterparts, while employment rates remain very low.
2004-06
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/33460/1/MPRA_paper_33460.pdf
Grech, Aaron George and Pace, Christopher (2004): The adoption of the European System of Accounts 1995 framework in the national accounts of Malta. Published in: Central Bank of Malta Quarterly Review : pp. 55-67.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:33481
2019-09-30T17:19:36Z
7374617475733D707562
7375626A656374733D51:5135:513530
7375626A656374733D51:5135:513539
7375626A656374733D4C:4C36:4C3630
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/33481/
Determinants of environmental management systems standards implementation: evidence from Greek industry
Halkos, George E
Q50 - General
Q59 - Other
L60 - General
This paper employs logistic regression analysis to test a model that predicts the implementation or not of Environmental Management Systems Standards (EMSS) by considering various factors as explanatory variables. The dependent variable is a dichotomous as either implementing or not EMSS by industrial firms. From past experience we identify 15 major variables contributing to implementation of EMSS. A sample of 259 respondents (84 implementing and 175 not) is used to estimate the parameters of the logistic regression model employing maximum likelihood. The results show an overall significant model with 4 of the 15 variables significant. The significance of management perception of environmental issues on their decision to implement EMSS was confirmed with regards to their perception on win-win possibilities. Pressure on companies to improve their environmental performance does not result in higher uptake of the standards. Company’s image and size are important factors in its decision to implement EMSS.
2001
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/33481/1/MPRA_paper_33481.pdf
Halkos, George E (2001): Determinants of environmental management systems standards implementation: evidence from Greek industry. Published in: Business Strategy and The Environment , Vol. 11, (2002): pp. 360-375.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:33491
2019-10-04T09:56:06Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D4F:4F31:4F3138
7375626A656374733D43:4332:433233
7375626A656374733D52:5231:523131
7375626A656374733D4C:4C36:4C3630
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/33491/
The economic theory and the Portuguese manufactured industry
Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues
O18 - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis ; Housing ; Infrastructure
C23 - Panel Data Models ; Spatio-temporal Models
R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
L60 - General
This work aims to test the Verdoorn Law, with the alternative specifications of (1)Kaldor (1966), for the five Portuguese regions (NUTS II), from 1986 to 1994. It is intended to test, yet in this work, the alternative interpretation of (2)Rowthorn (1975) about the Verdoorn's Law for the same regions and period. The results of this study are about each one of the manufactured industries operating in the Portuguese regions. The aim of this paper is, also, to present a further contribution to the analysis of absolute convergence, associated with the neoclassical theory, of the manufactured industry productivity at regional level and for the period from 1986 to 1994. This paper pretends, yet, to analyze the importance which the natural advantages and local resources are in the manufacturing industry location, in relation with the "spillovers" effects and industrial policies. To this, we estimate the Rybczynski equation matrix for the various manufacturing industries in Portugal, at regional level (NUTS II) and for the period 1986 to 1994.
2011
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/33491/1/MPRA_paper_33491.pdf
Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues (2011): The economic theory and the Portuguese manufactured industry.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:33492
2019-09-29T04:24:26Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D4F:4F31:4F3138
7375626A656374733D43:4332:433233
7375626A656374733D52:5231:523131
7375626A656374733D4C:4C36:4C3630
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/33492/
The economic theory and the Portuguese manufactured industry. Another approach
Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues
O18 - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis ; Housing ; Infrastructure
C23 - Panel Data Models ; Spatio-temporal Models
R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
L60 - General
The aim of this paper is to present a further contribution to the analysis of absolute convergence, associated with the neoclassical theory, of the manufactured industry productivity at regional level and for the period from 1995 to 1999 (1)(Martinho, 2011a). This work aims, also, to test the Verdoorn Law, with the alternative specifications of (2)Kaldor (1966), for the five Portuguese regions (NUTS II), from 1995 to 1999. It is intended to test, yet in this work, the alternative interpretation of (3)Rowthorn (1975) about the Verdoorn's Law for the same regions and period (4)(Martinho, 2011b). This paper pretends, yet, to analyze the importance which the natural advantages and local resources are in the manufacturing industry location, in relation with the "spillovers" effects and industrial policies. To this, we estimate the Rybczynski equation matrix for the various manufacturing industries in Portugal, at regional level (NUTS II) and for the period 1995 to 1999 (5)(Martinho, 2011c).
2011
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/33492/1/MPRA_paper_33492.pdf
Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues (2011): The economic theory and the Portuguese manufactured industry. Another approach.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:33541
2019-09-27T16:55:35Z
7374617475733D707562
7375626A656374733D51:5135:513530
7375626A656374733D51:5135:513539
7375626A656374733D4C:4C36:4C3630
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/33541/
Implementation of environmental management systems standards: important factors in corporate decision-making
Halkos, George
Q50 - General
Q59 - Other
L60 - General
While Environmental Management Systems Standards (EMSS) have been advocated by policy makers and consultants on the basis of a number of benefits associated with their implementation some companies are reluctant to implement them. This paper tests four hypotheses with regard to the significance of a number of factors in a company's decision to implement EMSS. Specifically, it assesses whether a company would be more likely to implement EMSS if its management has a positive perception of environmental issues; if there are pressures on the company to improve its environmental performance; if opportunities arise through its environmental activities; and if it operates in sensitive environmental conditions. For this purpose, Greek companies in the process of EMSS implementation were surveyed and their responses compared with companies that had not decided up to that point to implement the standards. Specific aspects of the hypotheses posed were supported and confirmed a range of factors that are important in a company's decision to implement EMSS.
2001
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/33541/1/MPRA_paper_33541.pdf
Halkos, George (2001): Implementation of environmental management systems standards: important factors in corporate decision-making. Published in: Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management , Vol. 4, No. 3 (2002): pp. 311-328.
en
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