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Collaboration for innovation in services

Hipp, Christiane - 2009

The research was motivated by the importance of inter-firm collaboration within service innovation. Inter …-firm collaboration covers a broad range of organizational combinations of various size and motivations in various levels of formal …

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Effective logistics alliance design and management

Brekalo, Lisa; Albers, Sascha - 2015

Purpose: We argue that the productive analyses of logistics alliances in the literature have led to a multitude of heterogeneous contributions. These should be consolidated and systematized in order to (a) synthesize the existing findings in a meaningful way and guide future research for...

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Strategies for megaregion governance: Collaborative dialogue, networks and self organization

Innes, Judith E.; Booher, David E.; Di Vittorio, Sarah - 2010

Metropolitan areas in the U.S. are increasingly growing together into megaregions with many linkages and interdependencies in their economies, infrastructure, and natural resources, but they are not linked well in terms of governance. Hundreds of jurisdictions, federal and state sectoral...

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Gender homophily, collaboration, and output

Prummer, Anja; Ductor, Lorenzo - 2023

women in the field. As women remain underrepresented, gender homophily may serve as a constraint in collaboration. It could …. We show that gender homophily neither constrains collaboration nor prevents higher quality output. …

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How to sell jobs

Ferreira, Daniel; Nikolowa, Radoslawa - 2018

Profit-maximizing firms should fill job positions at the lowest possible cost. Because employees may have preferences over the attributes of their jobs, we can view this problem as one of finding the optimal way to sell job attributes to potential employees. In this paper, we characterize the...

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Polarization, purpose and profit

Ferreira, Daniel Bernardo Soares; Nikolowa, Radoslawa - 2024

We present a model in which firms compete for workers who have a taste for a nonpecuniary job attribute, such as purpose, sustainability, ES/CSR, or working conditions. Firms can invest in flexible production technologies that allow them to create jobs with different levels of the desirable job...

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Market structure and market access

Francois, Joseph F.; Wooton, Ian - 2007

in services affects the volume of goods trade. Additionally, because of interaction between tariffs and competition, the … agreements leading to crossborder services liberalization may boost goods trade as well, they may also lead to a fall in goods …

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Cross-Border Trade and FDI in Services

Fillat-Castejon, Carmen; Francois, Joseph Francis; … - 2008

model jointly to services trade and commercial presence (i.e. FDI), using a composite model of delivery that offers testable … hypotheses about the roles of different modes of services supply as complements or substitutes. We further link our estimates to … and financial services as showing the largest potential for cross-border trade when market regulations are reduced and …

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Productivity gap between tradable and non-tradable industries and duality in higher education

Brezis, Elise S.; Brand, Gilad - 2017

Over the last decades, productivity in the tradable sector rose substantially, while in the non-tradable sector, output per worker has remained the same, despite a similar increase in human capital in both sectors. This paper emphasizes that duality in higher education as well as heterogeneous...

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Linking Services to Manufacturing Exports

Arnarson, Björn Thor; Gullstrand, Joakim - 2017

In this paper we analyse the interplay between services and manufacturing. This is done through identifying and … interplay between manufacturing exports and services. Our results show that a 1% increase in exports increases the volume of …

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