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FDI, Exports & Aggregate Productivity: Empirical evidence confirms that trade exposure can shift resources towards the most efficient firms in an industry and induce substantial increases in aggregate productivity. Although studies document that much of world trade is controlled by multinational firms, few examine the effect of foreign direct investment decisions on resource allocation and...; Tags: Foreign direct investment (FDI), Currency & Foreign exchange, Investment, foreign direct investment, manufacturing, industry; White papers 2007-03-17
The Effect of Pre-Bankruptcy Performance on the Post-Emergence Returns of Chapter 11 Firms: Although bankruptcies of Enron and MCI-World have drawn much attention, few have realized that it only revealed a small portion of the whole picture: the continuation of a sharply upward trend in large corporate bankruptcies. According to 2001 Bankruptcy Yearbook and Almanac, in 2000, a record of 176 publicly traded...; Tags: Litigation, bankruptcy, Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, equity, asset; White papers 2005-09-22
Why Have UK Disability Benefit Rolls Grown So Much?: Over the last 30 years many countries - including the UK - have seen a dramatic rise in the share of the working age population receiving sickness and disability benefits hereafter disability benefits. This is despite health levels that are generally thought to be slowly improving. This paper describes the...; Tags: Benefits, U.K., health care, benefit; White papers 2005-08-01
The Role Of Information In IPO Underpricing: Implications From Refiling Behavior In The IPO Pricing Process: This paper investigates the role of information played in pricing Initial Public Offerings IPOs under a unique environment provided by refiling behavior updating a new price range after the preliminary prospectus but before the final prospectus in the price-setting process of IPOs. The authors found extra supportive evidence to the...; Tags: Financial Planning, Investment, IPO, prospectus, pricing strategy, environment; White papers 2005-08-01
Creating a Knowledge Strategy for Your Organization: Knowledge about competitive threats and business conditions, provided in a timely manner, is essential for appropriate decision-making. Knowledge about customers and what they want from an organization guides its product and service development. And a useful and flexible info-structure enables employees to find what they need to know when they...; Tags: Strategy, knowledge, decision-making, financial; White papers 2005-07-25

Knowledge Management and Organizational Performance: An Exploratory Survey: Ninety organizations were surveyed in an exploratory investigation of the organizational impact of Knowledge Management KM. A search of the literature revealed 12 KM practices. Results indicated that these KM practices were directly related to organizational performance which, in turn, was directly related to financial performance. In addition, a different...; Tags: Business intelligence, Strategy, knowledge management, knowledge, product development, performance, survey, financial; White papers 2005-06-13
Why Do Disability Benefit Rolls Vary Between Regions? a Review of Evidence From the US and UK: The UK displays a distinct regional pattern where working age men and women in the 'north' are considerably more likely to be claiming disability benefits than those in the 'south'. The US has its own version of the north/south divide, with many southern states displaying disproportionately large disability benefit rolls....; Tags: roll, U.K., women, benefit; White papers 2005-06-01
You'll Never Walk Alone: Childhood Influences and Male Career Path Clusters: This paper examines career paths for a cohort of British 29 year old males born in 1970. A typology of careers is identified using sequence methods and cluster analysis. Among the clear 'types' are several paths dominated by unemployment and other forms of non-employment. These types are strongly correlated with...; Tags: Professional development, training and certification, career path, career, analysis; White papers 2005-02-01
Developing A Characterization Of Business Intelligence Workloads For Sizing New Database Systems: Computer system sizing involves estimating the amount of hardware resources needed to support a new workload not yet deployed in a production environment. In order to determine the type and quantity of resources required, a methodology is required for describing the new workload. In this paper, we discuss the sizing...; Tags: Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Databases, business intelligence, characterization, database system, database management, database management system, analysis, database, hardware, computer; White papers 2004-11-12
Perceived Value of Knowledge: Shall I Give You My Gem, My Coal?: Achieving value from knowledge has been illusive to the organization despite recent attempts to capitalize on it. An individual's willingness to share his or her knowledge is an essential factor in the organization benefiting from the knowledge it collectively possesses. The study presented in this paper adds to what is...; Tags: Knowledge, Queen, Strategy, Management; White papers 2004-02-01
Economic Assumptions of the Knowledge-Based Enterprise: The internal knowledge market within the organization is defined, and the underlying economic assumptions of the market are examined. This paper concludes that managers of today's knowledge-based organizations should consider governing the internal knowledge market, not managing the knowledge. The paper further suggests that the supply and demand curves of...; Tags: Strategy, knowledge; White papers 2004-02-01
Does The Use Of Imported Intermediates Increase Productivity?: Plant-Level Evidence: This paper examines whether importing intermediate goods improves plant performance. While addressing the issue of simultaneity of a productivity shock and decisions to import intermediates, the impact of the use of foreign intermediates on plants' productivity is estimated using plant-level Chilean manufacturing panel data. It is found that the switching...; Tags: manufacturing, performance; White papers 2004-01-31
The Link Between Earnings Conservatism and Balance Sheet Conservatism: Defining earnings conservatism as the degree to which a firm's earnings are more timely in reflecting expected losses than gains in a given fiscal year, and balance sheet conservatism as the firm's market-to-book ratio at the beginning of the year, this report hypothesizes and finds: Earnings conservatism is negatively associated...; Tags: Balance sheets, Financial accounting, balance sheet, earnings, accrual; White papers 2004-01-01
External Relationships and the Small Business: A Review of Small Business Alliance and Network Research: In order to thrive, small businesses should have relationships with external organizations that have the potential to assist business development, survival and growth. A focus on the external relationships of the small business underlines the vital importance of external resources in moving small business toward increased success and profitability. Covering...; Tags: small business, business development, alliance, network; White papers 2004-01-01
Managing For Growth: Research Agenda For The Future - Enabling Sustainable Success In Canadian Smes: The objective of this paper is to outline a study that will generate data to provide new insights into innovative Small and Medium Enterprises SMEs in Canada. Specifically, the study will address three broad research questions: What are the basic characteristics of innovative SMEs and their roles in the Canadian...; Tags: SMB/SME, small and medium enterprise, Porter five forces, industry analysis, barrier, industry; White papers 2003-10-29
Reengineering Legacy Systems Towards Web Environments: With the widespread use of the Web, distributed object technologies have been widely adopted to construct network-centric architectures, using XML, Web Services, CORBA, and DCOM. Organizations would like to take advantage of the Web in its various forms of Internet, Intranet and Extranets. This requires organizations to port and integrate...; Tags: Hardware upgrade, Channel management, legacy system, DCOM, XML Web Service, CORBA, re-engineering, Extranet, Web, Intranet, XML, technique, environment, Internet, network; White papers 2003-10-03
Managing for Growth: Enabling Sustainable Success in Canadian SMEs: This paper brings together the research to date on SME management and growth and suggests strategies for dealing with internal barriers to growth. It also makes recommendations for additional steps that can be taken by business, government, colleges and universities, and the financial community to improve the chances for success...; Tags: SMB/SME, small and medium enterprise, entrepreneurial, barrier, strategy, financial; White papers 2003-10-01
The Paradox of Inter-Organizational Learning Between Culturally Diverse Partners: A Research Proposal: There has been an explosion of interest in both popular and academic literature on the topic of organizational learning over the past 15 years. Comparatively there has been a dearth of literature focusing on the specific realm of inter-organizational learning. An area of study of inter-organizational learning that seems to...; Tags: theory, strategic alliance; White papers 2003-09-01
Interorganizational Systems and Embedded Relationships: A Resource Dependency Perspective of IOS Management: This paper adopts a resource dependency perspective to demonstrate the premise that interorganizational systems are not all created equal but are all related. This principle is theoretically established and empirically supported through a comprehensive review of the IOS literature. Associations between four base IOS types; reciprocal-sequential, modular-sequential, modular-pooled and reciprocal-pooled...; Tags: Cisco IOS, theory; White papers 2003-08-01
Knowledge Sharing and Business Clusters: This paper reports preliminary results from a study that examines factors influencing knowledge sharing among members of business clusters. Business clusters are local concentrations of competitive firms in related industries that do business with each other. Earthquake Engineering, Natural Hazards, Optics and Software are examples of clusters studied in this...; Tags: Strategy, optics, knowledge, competitive advantage, industry, software; White papers 2003-06-25