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The aim of this paper is to add new findings to the knowledge based view of the firm, where the cross-learning ability …, especially in the present knowledge-based economy, where the necessity to respond effectively to frequent external shock (demand … in the determination of firm's performance is presented. Secondly, a missing ring in the knowledge based view of the firm …
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How much would output increase if underdeveloped economies were to increase their levels of schooling? We contribute to the development accounting literature by describing a nonparametric upper bound on the increase in output that can be generated by more schooling. The advantage of our approach...
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Using a model of wage determination developed by Stevens (2003) we offer an explanation of why tenure has a negative effect when entered in job satisfaction equations. If job satisfaction measures match quality, then the explanation follows from a model of the labour market in which workers...
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Labor market institutions, via their effect on the wage structure, affect the investmentdecisions of firms in labor markets with frictions. This observation helps explain rising wageinequality in the US, but a relatively stable wage structure in Europe in the 1980s. Thesedifferent trends are the...
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information technology should not be regarded as a potential substitute for human skills and tacit knowledge. Instead, its main … role should be to support the formation and use of tacit knowledge. In the paper we compare two stylised models of the … tacit knowledge, while the American model is driven by a permanent urge to reduce the importance of tacit knowledge and to …
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agents' capability to transform general knowledge into specific one using their stock of competencies and dynamic assets … technological, organizational and market knowledge and in the development of formal and informal mechanisms to facilitate its … "competencies", transform generic knowledge into specific knowledge and, therefore, innovate. It aims at analyzing the knowledge of …
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an external learning strategy aiming at absorbing external sources of knowledge. The results show that the co …
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A simple model of process innovation is proposed, where firms learn about their ideal production process by making …
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reliance on credit and an extremely unbalanced industry structure have given rise to a narrow knowledge base and a sticky …
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learning organisational forms in some parts of the economy, characterised by innovation turbulence and cumulativeness, are best …
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