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Surveys theories of regional growth, factor mobility, clustering, industrial restructuring, learning regions, and global supply chains from a political-economy perspective. Examines/critiques accounting frameworks including accounting for the underground economy, multipliers, linkages, and...
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Surveys theories of regional growth, factor mobility, clustering, industrial restructuring, learning regions, and global supply chains from a political-economy perspective. Examines/critiques accounting frameworks including accounting for the underground economy, multipliers, linkages, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009433030
We undertake a study where we examine changes in the profitability, productivity and price recovery of firms in the U.S. telecommunications industry over a sixteen-year period. We assess the performance of thirty-three major companies in the local-exchange sector over six time periods 1975,...
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diffusion of innovation by small and medium sized enterprises. …
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This thesis consists of three chapters on the impact of different government policies on entrepreneurial financing. In the first chapter, by quantitatively evaluating the impact of different personal bankruptcy regimes on entrepreneurship in a life-cycle model with occupational choices, I...
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question for today's managers and organizational researchers. Proponents of contingency theory have argued that organizations … has been done on contingency theory, it is clear that our understanding of uncertainty is far from complete. One important … aspect of today's organizations is their focus on service, mass customization, and continuous innovation. This focus often …
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openness has a more positive impact in boosting innovation in BRICS than in the five OECD countries, whereas ethnic diversity … and R&D expenditure have a more positive influence on innovation activities in OECD countries than in BRICS. Surprisingly …, despite popular presumption that the Internet has dramatically leveled the innovation playing field by making distant …
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Prices for nearly all basic commodity rose at unprecedented rates throughout early 2008, only to fall nearly as fast as financial markets and global economies began to collapse. Rising food prices in 2008 led to concerns that commodity price spikes would lead to more general food inflation, but...
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The basic machines of macroeconomics. Ramsey, Solow, Samuelson-Diamond, RBCs, ISLM, Mundell-Fleming, Fischer-Taylor. How they work, what shortcuts they take, and how they can be used. Half-term subject. From the course home page: Course Description This is the second course in the four-quarter...
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. Such methods tend to ignore many of the essential components of microeconomic theory including convex indifference curves … each class of models. These utility assumptions are then directly contrasted to those of microeconomic theory. The new …
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