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A Comparison of the Financial Management Characteristics of UK vs. EU Manufacturing Firms [PDF]
Revista de Management Comparat International, 2017 When two economies are integrated, the financial management characteristics of firms in the two economies tend to become similar. Germany and France are two original members of the EU since 1957 and they have fully integrated economies. The UK joined the
Gulser MERIC +3 more
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Entrepreneurship: A comaprisiom between service and manufacturing firms in Iran [PDF]
مدیریت مهندسی و رایانش نرمThis paper aims at examining entrepreneurship in both service and manufacturing firms. To fulfill this goal, SAMAN bank, as the third private bank in Iran, and Iranian auto part manufacturing firms were chosen as the representatives of service and ...
Mehdi Jabbari +3 more
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Employment Stickiness in Small Manufacturing Firms [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2006 Small firms often do not change their number of employees from year to year. This paper investigates the role of adjustment costs and indivisibility of labor in the employment stickiness of manufacturing firms with less than 75 employees. When small firms have to adjust employment in units of at least one employee, indivisibility becomes an important ...
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Organizational Learning in Smaller Manufacturing Firms
International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurship, 2006 This article describes the development and validation of a measure of a firm's organizational learning orientation and considers the relationships between this and firm performance. The measure assesses owner-managers’ perceptions of their organizations’ orientation to learning in terms of higherorder (active) and lower-order (passive) levels of ...
Spicer, DP, Sadler-Smith, E
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Recognizing readiness in manufacturing firms [PDF]
Conference Proceedings of the Academy for Design Innovation Management, 2019 This article presents a framework for manufacturers to assess their readiness for taking a service design approach to the development of product-service systems (PSS). The framework is developed from the results of interviews with three manufacturing firms that have begun the servitization journey.
Andrew T. WALTERS, Giulia TESO
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Does stock market listing boost or impede corporate investment?
Borsa Istanbul Review, 2022 This paper investigates investment behavior across public and privately held firms using a novel firm-level dataset. We use coarsened exact matching to construct a control group of firms with which we compare listed firms before and after listing in a ...
Ibrahim Yarba, Ahmet Duhan Yassa
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Unintended Consequences of Business Subsidies: Evidence from “Made in China 2025”
Journal of East Asian StudiesIn 2015, China adopted “Made in China 2025” to upgrade its manufacturing sector and to engage firms in contributing to state priorities including economic growth and national security.
Youngjoon Lee
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Estimating Factors Affecting Technical Efficiency in Indian Manufacturing Sector [PDF]
Eurasian Journal of Business and Economics, 2019 Existing studies could not estimate the technical efficiency (TE) of firms and it’s affecting factors in the Indian manufacturing sector. So, the present study examines the TE of firms using a stochastic frontier production function approach.
Ajay Kumar SINGH +2 more
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Sequence determinants of RNA G‐quadruplex unfolding by Arg‐rich regions
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.We show that Arg‐rich peptides selectively unfold RNA G‐quadruplexes, but not RNA stem‐loops or DNA/RNA duplexes. This length‐dependent activity is inhibited by acidic residues and is conserved among SR and SR‐related proteins (SRSF1, SRSF3, SRSF9, U1‐70K, and U2AF1).
Naiduwadura Ivon Upekala De Silva +10 more
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Quadruple Bottom Line Disclosure Among Listed Manufacturing Firms in Nigeria: A Paradigm for Cost Savings [PDF]
International Journal of Management, Accounting and EconomicsThe study determined the effect of quadruple bottom line reporting (proxies by economic, social, environmental, and governance disclosures) on cost saving among listed manufacturing firms in Nigeria.
Gilbert Nworie, Tochukwu Orji-Okafor
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