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Firm Size And Innovation In European Manufacturing, Mario Pianta, Andrea Vaona Dec 2007

Firm Size And Innovation In European Manufacturing, Mario Pianta, Andrea Vaona

Mario Pianta

The paper investigates the differences between small, medium-sized and large firms regarding their performance in the introduction of new products and processes. After a review of the relevant literature, two models are proposed and tested in search for different business strategies and innovation inputs connected to product and process innovations. The empirical analysis uses innovation survey (CIS 2) data at the industry level for 22 manufacturing sectors, broken down in three firm size classes, for eight European countries. Special attention is devoted to tackling the issues of possible endogeneity of the regressors and of unobserved sectoral heterogeneity. The results – …

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Innovations, Profits And Wages, Mario Pianta, Massimiliano Tancioni Dec 2007

Innovations, Profits And Wages, Mario Pianta, Massimiliano Tancioni

Mario Pianta

This paper investigates the dynamics of wages and profits and the influence innovation strategies have on them. The relationships between innovation, productivity, and distribution are modeled and estimated by employing panel data techniques. Two European innovation surveys (1994–96 and 1998–2000) are used with data at both the country and industry levels. Innovation is found to have positive effects on income dynamics beyond the role it has on productivity gains; it may weaken the distribution constraint posed by the competition between profits and wages. Profits are driven by both the Schumpeterian effects of new products and the diffusion effects of new …

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New Process And New Products In Europe And Italy, Mario Pianta, Francesco Crespi Dec 2007

New Process And New Products In Europe And Italy, Mario Pianta, Francesco Crespi

Mario Pianta

This article investigates the differences in the mechanisms and strategies conducing to the introduction of new processes and products in Italy and Europe. After a review of the relevant literature, three models are proposed and tested in order to identify the different business strategies and innovation inputs associated to the successful implementation of new products and new processes. The empirical analysis uses innovation surveys (CIS 2-3-4) data at the industry level for 22 manufacturing sectors and 17 services sectors for 8 European countries, with a specific focus on the Italian case. The analysis shows that while the two types of …

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Innovation After Lisbon: New Ideas For Innovation Policies In Europe, Mario Pianta, Andrea Vaona Dec 2007

Innovation After Lisbon: New Ideas For Innovation Policies In Europe, Mario Pianta, Andrea Vaona

Mario Pianta

Life after Lisbon has been disappointing for Europe. The aim to turn Europe into the most competitive knowledge based economy of the world has remained vague, with results far off the mark. Equally poor have been the outcomes of European Union efforts in 2005 to give the Lisbon strategy a new start, trying to combine sustainable growth with employment, competitiveness with solidarity.

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Demand And Innovation In Productivity Growth, Mario Pianta, Francesco Crespi Dec 2007

Demand And Innovation In Productivity Growth, Mario Pianta, Francesco Crespi

Mario Pianta

The labour productivity impact of demand and innovation is investigated in this paper combining insights from the Kaldorian and Schumpeterian traditions. After a review of studies in such traditions, a general model is proposed for explaining productivity growth in European manufacturing and service industries in the late 1990s, followed by two distinct specifications for the industries oriented toward product innovation, and for those where process innovation dominates. The empirical analysis is based on the match of the SIEPI-CIS2 database developed at the University of Urbino and Eurostat Input–Output Tables at the industry level, for 22 manufacturing sectors and 10 services …

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Staff Management In Emergency Evacuation Preparedness And Response, Davood Golmohammadi Phd Dec 2007

Staff Management In Emergency Evacuation Preparedness And Response, Davood Golmohammadi Phd

Davood Golmohammadi

No abstract provided.

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Te Warewhare: The Impact Of The Warehouse On Maori In Kaitaia, Kerikeri & Motueka, Janet G. Sayers, Will Low, Eileen Davenport Dec 2007

Te Warewhare: The Impact Of The Warehouse On Maori In Kaitaia, Kerikeri & Motueka, Janet G. Sayers, Will Low, Eileen Davenport

Janet G Sayers

Examines the impact of a large format retailer modeled on Wal-Mart (The Warehouse) on small town New Zealand.

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Determinants Of Behavioral Intentions In The Mobile Internet Services Market, Pavlos A. Vlachos, Adam Vrechopoulos Dec 2007

Determinants Of Behavioral Intentions In The Mobile Internet Services Market, Pavlos A. Vlachos, Adam Vrechopoulos

Pavlos A Vlachos

No abstract provided.

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Pay Communication: A Reality Check, J. Brookshire, M. Hudson, K. Kessel, M Mcanally, Dow Scott, Sperling. S. R., P. Weatherhead Dec 2007

Pay Communication: A Reality Check, J. Brookshire, M. Hudson, K. Kessel, M Mcanally, Dow Scott, Sperling. S. R., P. Weatherhead

Dow Scott

No abstract provided.

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A Study Of Rewards Communications: Methods For Improvement Of Employee Understanding, Dow Scott, R S. Sperling, T D. Mcmullen, B Bowbin Dec 2007

A Study Of Rewards Communications: Methods For Improvement Of Employee Understanding, Dow Scott, R S. Sperling, T D. Mcmullen, B Bowbin

Dow Scott

No abstract provided.

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Diversity In Innovation And Productivity In Europe, Mario Pianta, Francesco Crespi Dec 2007

Diversity In Innovation And Productivity In Europe, Mario Pianta, Francesco Crespi

Mario Pianta

The diversity in innovation patterns across manufacturing and service industries and in their outcomes in terms of hourly labor productivity are investigated in this article considering six European countries. The Schumpeterian insights into the variety of innovation are developed in this work by identifying different innovation–performance relationships for industries and countries, relying either on the dominant role of product innovation, or on the diffusion of process improvements. Moreover, the “push” effect of innovation is combined with the “pull” effect of demand, by considering the impact of the dynamics of consumption and investment at the sectoral level. The results point out …

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Re-Thinking The Future Of Work: Beyond Binary Hierarchies, Colin C. Williams Dec 2007

Re-Thinking The Future Of Work: Beyond Binary Hierarchies, Colin C. Williams

Colin C Williams

How will work be organised in the future? This paper reveals that although there are multiple stories about the future of work, a similar storyline is adopted across many of the competing visions. Most visions firstly squeeze all forms of work into one side or the other or some dichotomy and then proceed to temporally and/or normatively sequence the two sides of the dualism and finally label the resultant one-dimensional and linear trajectory as some -ism, -ation or post-somethingor-other. This paper evaluates critically such hierarchical binary narratives (e.g., the shift from informal to formal work, non-commodified to commodified work, localisation …

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Tackling Undeclared Work In The European Union, Colin C. Williams Dec 2007

Tackling Undeclared Work In The European Union, Colin C. Williams

Colin C Williams

No abstract provided.

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Factors Influencing Managerial Perceptions Of Psychic Distance, Douglas Dow Dec 2007

Factors Influencing Managerial Perceptions Of Psychic Distance, Douglas Dow

Douglas Dow

No abstract provided.

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Greenwashed?: Developers, Environmental Consciousness, And The Case Of Playa Vista, Matthew J. Parlow Dec 2007

Greenwashed?: Developers, Environmental Consciousness, And The Case Of Playa Vista, Matthew J. Parlow

Matthew Parlow

While many businesses are becoming greener, development corporations may have the greatest incentive to integrate environmental values into their everyday business practices. With the effects of urbanization, suburbanization, and sprawl, cities are increasingly requiring environmental mitigation measures for approval of new development. In response, some development corporations may become greenwashed to obtain discretionary land use approvals to build their proposed developments. Others may build greener developments to meet the market demand from environmentally conscious buyers. An increasing number of developers, however, adopt environmentally responsible business practices for, at least in significant part, altruistic reasons. A prime example of this phenomenon …

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Portents Of Change: U.S./Eu Open Skies And A Bold U.S. Initiative, Brian F. Havel Dec 2007

Portents Of Change: U.S./Eu Open Skies And A Bold U.S. Initiative, Brian F. Havel

Brian Havel

In this article (Paragraph No. 25,381) the author was responding to presentations by Ludolf van Hasselt and Paul Gretch. Van Hasselt and Gretch, respectively, outlined the framework of the proposed United States (U.S.)/European Union (EU) open skies agreement currently under negotiation, and the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) initiated by the Department of Transportation (DOT) to relax the criteria by which foreign control over U.S. airlines is assed in the Department’s financial reviews. The author emphasizes that neither the U.S./EU open skies agreement nor the DOT’s NPRM on “actual control” of U.S. air carriers will abolish the citizenship priority test …

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Analytical Thomism: Traditions In Dialogue, Mario Šilar Dec 2007

Analytical Thomism: Traditions In Dialogue, Mario Šilar

Mario Šilar

No abstract provided.

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