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Improving Entrepreneurs' Digital Skills and Firms' Digital Competencies through Business Apps Training: A Study of Small Firms

Drydakis, Nick - 2022

improve their digital competencies. The present exploratory study investigated whether business apps training was associated … with entrepreneurs' and firms' digital advancements. The business apps training was offered to migrant entrepreneurs … running small firms in Athens (Greece) over three months, with data collected before and after the training. The analysis …

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Improving Entrepreneurs’ Digital Skills and Firms’ Digital Competencies through Business Apps Training: A Study of Small Firms

Drydakis, Nick - 2022

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The shift to services : a review of the literature

Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - 2003

The present paper provides an overview of literature on the shift to services. It follows the three dimensions of structural change - final demand, the inter-industry division of labor and inter-industry productivity differences. It first looks at the ?classics?, however (Fisher (1935), Clark...

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Gibrat's Law and the Firm Size / Firm Growth Relationship in Italian Services

Piergiovanni, R.; Santarelli, E.; Klomp, L.; Thurik, A.R. - 2002

Several surveys on intra-industry dynamics have recently reached the conclusion from a large body of evidence that Gibrat's Law does not hold, i.e., the main finding is that firm growth decreases with firm size. However, almost all of these studies have been based on manufacturing. In this paper...

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Optimal choice and consumption of cost cap tariffs: Theory and empirical evidence

Köhler, Philip; Krämer, Jan; Krüger, Lars - In: Business Research 7 (2014) 1, pp. 161-190

Cost cap tariffs are pay-per-use tariffs for which costs cannot exceed a predefined cost limit. They were recently introduced to telecommunications markets, but were previously also applied in the insurance industry as deductibles or in the rental industry as day rates. This paper develops and...

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Gewerkschaften zwischen Konkurrenz und Kooperation? Inter-organisationale Beziehungen in der Facility Services-Branche

Helfen, Markus; Nicklich, Manuel - In: Industrielle Beziehungen 21 (2014) 2, pp. 161-204

deploy to shape their inter-union relations, i.e. defining jurisdictions, accumulating resources and collective bargaining … defining jurisdictions and accumulating organizational resources are deployed. …

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Interorganisationale Netzwerke und tarifpolitische Fragmentierung: Hebt Mehr-Arbeitgeber-Beschäftigung die Tarifeinheit aus den Angeln?

Helfen, Markus; Nicklich, Manuel; Sydow, Jörg - In: Industrielle Beziehungen 23 (2016) 3, pp. 280-308

Der Aufsatz stellt die Auswirkungen einer netzwerkförmig reorganisierten Wertschöpfung auf das System der Tarifpolitik zur theoretischen und empirischen Diskussion vor. Im Vordergrund steht die These, nach der eine solche (Re-)Organisation interorganisational segmentierte Belegschaften...

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Institutions and service employment: a panel study for OECD countries

Messina, Julián - 2004

We live in a service economy, but the extent of development of service employment differs across developed countries. This paper assesses the role of structural factors and institutions in explaining the common patterns and main di?erences in the recent expansion of service employment in OECD...

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Spatial concentration of Indian service industries in rural and urban areas: A micro-unit-level analysis

Agarwal, Sugam; Ranjan Behera, Smruti - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 11 (2023) 2, pp. 1-19

This paper explores the spatial concentration of 120 service industries in India's rural and urban areas, covering 33.60 million establishments using Economic census (2013) data at the district level. Besides, this study uses a cartogram map to examine knowledge-intensive business services...

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Product Innovation and Population Dynamics in the German Insurance Market

Menhart, Michael; Pyka, Andreas; Ebersberger, Bernd; … - 2003

Empirical research in organizational ecology has mainly focused on analyzing founding and mortality rates using life history data of the organizations. We try to extend this approach in our study in a number of ways. In contrast to most empirical studies in organizational ecology, we chose a...

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