Organizational knowledge and employee turnover have been studied extensively. This paper is divided into three major sections. First, the paper introduces the general theoretical background, followed by more specific theoretical discussions of the tacit knowledge, knowledge-based view of the firm, and employee turnover literature. Second, the authors frame their propositions...
The rise of contract farming and vertical integration is one of the most important changes in modern agriculture. Yet the adoption and diffusion of these new forms of organization has varied widely across regions, commodities, and farm types. Transaction cost and other modern theories of the firm help explain the...
The effects of ISO 9000 diffusion on trade and FDI have gone understudied. Panel data reported by OECD nations over the 1995-2002 period is employed to estimate the impact of ISO adoptions on country-pair economic relations. ISO diffusion is found to have no effect in developed nations, but to positively...
The role played by governmental institutions for accelerating the diffusion of electronic Public Procurement (e-PP) is analyzed in this paper. Such analysis is interesting for institutions encouraging the diffusion of e-Government because they are not objective third party intermediaries instead they are part of the government. The paper is written...
This paper investigates both trade and FDI as channels of international R&D diffusion. Generally, trade has a stronger effect on TFP than FDI. More interestingly, the authors also find that there exist different effects of FDI and trade on R&D diffusion in DCs and LDCs. Both trade and FDI have...
The diffusion of new technologies is their adoption by different economic agents at different times. A classical concern in the diffusion of technologies (Griliches 1957) is the importance of raw technical progress versus economic forces. We examine this classical issue in a modern market, web browsers. Using a new data...
This paper explores the role of business services in knowledge accumulation and growth and the determinants of knowledge diffusion including the role of distance. A continuous time model is estimated on several European countries, Japan, and the US. Policy simulations illustrate the benefits for EU growth of the deepening of...
This paper demonstrates that two-photon fluorescence microscopy is a useful tool for monitoring the diffusion of molecules through polymeric solid supports. As a proof of principle, TentaGel beads were bound to a cover slip, and diffusion of Rhodamine 6G through single beads was observed in real time. Diffusion experiments performed...
SmartCell has been developed to be a general framework for modelling and simulation of diffusion-reaction networks in a whole-cell context. It supports localization and diffusion by using a mesoscopic stochastic reaction model. The SmartCell package can handle any cell geometry, considers different cell compartments, allows localization of species, supports DNA...
By jointly modelling both the inter and intra firm diffusion of e-business activities in the UK using data from the third UK Community Innovation Survey this paper addresses whether policy intervention in the diffusion process can be justified. The estimates indicate that the diffusion of basic and enhanced e-business usage...
This paper extends some results on the convergence of one-dimensional diffusions killed at the boundary, conditioned on extended survival, to the case of general killing on the interior. They show, under fairly general conditions, that diffusion conditioned on long survival either runs o_ to infinity almost surely, or almost surely...
This paper presents an asymptotic analysis of an American call option where the diffusion term volatility is small compared to the drift terms interest rate and continuous dividend yield. The paper shows that in the limit where diffusion is negligible, relative to drift, then, at leading order, the American call's...
The development the Internet market and telecommunications sector in Senegal shares some important with other African states. International aid organizations, NGOs, and Universities played an early and important role in diffusion of the Internet. At the same time there are also significantly different aspects of the Senegalese experience, including the...
In the present paper, human brain image data suitable for biexponential diffusion tensor analysis were acquired in normal subjects on a clinical MR system. For each diffusion component, maps of anisotropy and eigenvectors were computed. For reference purposes, a subset of the data was used for a conventional, monoexponential diffusion...
Due to the growing number of products and the need for interconnection between them, compatibility standardization in ICT has gained considerable importance during the last decade, creating network externalities for the users and increasing returns for the producers. Standards can be created by market or committee-based mechanisms but also by...
The three most extensively cited papers by Zvi Griliches deal with the diffusion of innovations, distributed lags and the sources of the growth of measured total factor productivity, respectively. The close economic connections between these dynamic phenomena remained largely unexplored and were at best only implicit in his published writings...
The paper presents an econometric analysis of the diffusion of wireless technology in the form of electronic marketing. Using a modified Bass model and a coupled-hazard survival model, the paper work tests the effects of various factors on the speed of diffusion of wireless technology on a global scale. Their...
The product life cycle PLC is the result of multiple supply and demand forces. However, past research has focused primarily on the role of diffusion in driving the PLC. This study takes a step toward a broader theoretical perspective on the PLC by incorporating informational cascades and developing and testing...
Thickness of base is an important technological - constructive parameter of BjT technology, which defines such high temperature processes: diffusion of base, oxidation for formation of emitter windows, diffusion of emitter and oxidation for formation of contactical windows. Reciprocally these technological processes determine the thickness of base Wb. That is...
As a large developing country, Brazil combines particular obstacles and opportunities to diffuse the Internet across its economy and society. Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the diffusion of IT and e-commerce in this country is that the lead has always been taken by the finance sector. This paper is...
