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• Live Or Let Die?: Alternative Routes To Industry Exit

  BNET - 2007-02-12

  Each year around 8 per cent of Swedish manufacturing firms leave an industry. Of the exit routes available, the least likely is firm closure. Firms are more likely to merge, become acquired or switch to a new industry. We investigate the importance of various firm and industry characteristics for the...

  Tags: Firm, Firms, Management, Strategy, University Of Nottingham

• The Impact Of Information Technology On Service Sector Productivity

  BNET - 2006-05-01

  There have been numerous studies of the impact of investment in Information Technology IT on manufacturing productivity (e.g., Brynjolfsson and Hitt (1996)) and Morrison (1997)), but little evidence on this relationship in services. The authors have attempted to fill this gap, by analyzing the impact of IT on the relative...

  Tags: Information Technology, University Of Nottingham, Productivity, Manufacturing, Strategy, Management

• Exports, Restructuring And Industry Productivity Growth

  BNET - 2005-02-09

  The impact of firm level productivity heterogeneity on export market entry has been the subject of theoretical innovation and extensive empirical scrutiny in last few years. The latter has focused on falling trade costs and firm level productivity, notwithstanding the fact that theory also points up links between trade and...

  Tags: Management, Productivity Growth, Strategy, University Of Nottingham

• Industry Differences In The Effect Of Export Market Entry: Learning By Exporting?

  BNET - 2005-01-20

  There is extensive empirical evidence pointing to the existence of sunk costs to exporting. Only higher productivity firms can profitably cover these and enter export markets. This is the standard explanation for the regularity with which econometric analyses reports that exporters are more productive than non-exporters. But what happens to...

  Tags: Management, Strategy, University Of Nottingham

• Systems Thinking And Construction Productivity

  BNET - 2003-07-24

  This paper describes research undertaken to investigate the possibility of using systems to model productivity in construction. In particular, it concentrates on the use of systems dynamics and project level productivity. The literature identifies 34 factors affecting productivity but based on a survey of professionals, five of these are recognised...

  Tags: University Of Nottingham, Productivity, Marketing Research, Strategy, Marketing, Management

• Price Cost Margins And Exporting Behaviour: Evidence From Firm Level Data

  BNET - 2003-07-22

  This paper examines whether exporting activity matters for firm's price cost margins. The literature on exporting and productivity shows that exporters on average are more efficient than non-exporters. If that is the case we may also expect them to have different mark-ups. Paper investigates this issue using company level data...

  Tags: University Of Nottingham, Sector, Manufacturing, Strategy, Management

• Productivity - The New Corporate Imperative

  BNET - 2003-05-29

  Both private and public sector organisations are facing a productivity challenge. The escalating pace of modern industry and the increasing political pressures to deliver better value public services has increased the requirement on managers to become better decision makers. Teaching the craft of decision-making is not a dedicated subject in...

  Tags: Public Sector, University Of Nottingham, Decision-making, Tools & Techniques, Management