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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"high technology industries"”.
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Representation and Reward in High Technology Industries and Occupations: The Influence of Race and Ethnicity
… practices of discrimination in hiring in high technology industries and science and engineering occupations. The study focused on the effects of education on the distribution of employment and wages among four racial and ethnic groups (non-Hispanic whites, non-Hispanic blacks, Hispanics …
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Innovation and the state : development strategies for high technology industries in a world of fragmented production : Israel, Ireland, and Taiwan
… economies not previously known for their high-technology industries have leapfrogged to the forefront in new Information Technologies (IT). Surprisingly, from the perspective of comparative political economy theories, the IT industries of these countries use different business models and …
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Strategic Motivation: The Case of Domestic Joint Ventures in The Chemical Industry
… The Internal Economic Model suggests that in high technology industries such as the chemical industry there are internal strategic needs (e.g., acquisition of managerial expertise or technology) that motivate domestic joint venture formation.
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Public policy and the Quebec aerospace sector
… policy programs to promote the growth of high technology industries within their borders. Such industries are seen to offer benefits which spread throughout the national economy. Using the Quebec aerospace sector as a case study, and drawing on both secondary research and interviews with …
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Brass cities : Innovation policy and local economic transformation
… some former industrial cities become hubs for high-wage jobs while others continue to grapple with economic stagnation? This dissertation aims to show how government interventions have shaped U.S. cities' paths to income and employment growth. In the 1980s, nearly every state government in the …
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Effects of Trade and FDI Policies: Evidence from the U.S. and China
… which promotes firm entries and exports of high-technology industries.</p>
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A study of US government's satellite incumbents and follow-on competitions
In many high technology industries, incumbents routinely find themselves loosing to new entrants as well as established competitors in the battle for leadership across successive generations of new technology. However, the demise of the incumbent is most typically associated with the entry of …
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China's Education Reforms: Strategic Implications
… in, and output from, its institutions of higher education over the last two decades. This has been the product of deliberate policy on the part of the Chinese government. These reforms will affect four strategic aspects of China's national power: its economy, internal stability, soft …
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Venture capital industry development in the Hong Kong and Pearl River Delta Region
… the past decades. The well-known multinational high-tech companies such as Intel, Apple Computer, and Microsoft, were all backed by venture capital funds at their inception. Thus, it is well recognized that venture capitalists play a crucial role in supporting many new high-tech firms to grow …
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The critical role of manufacturing-process innovation on product development excellence in high-technology companies
Few managers of high-technology companies view manufacturing-process development as primary source of competitive advantage. For the last two decades trends have shown an increasing number of high-tech industries outsourcing manufacturing completely to third-party contractors or joint-venture …
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Rapid learning in high velocity environments
… investigates how rapid learning occurs in high technology industries, many of which operate in what Bourgeois and Eisenhardt (1988) term "high velocity environments." The dissertation consists of three empirical studies, which follow the method of extended case study research (e.g. Yin, …
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Varieties of innovation : the creation of wind and solar industries in China, Germany, and the United States
… how does innovation take place in contemporary high-technology sectors? Theories of innovation presume a division of labor between firms in industrialized economies that invent and commercialize new technologies and those in developing economies that focus on production. Even as global supply …
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Rapid Advance: High Technology in China in the Global Electronic Age
This study examines how a critical high technology industry in China, the semiconductor industry, advanced from being an isolated, centrally planned industry in the mid 1980s to being an important participant in the competitive global semiconductor industry after 2000. The research examines the …
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Simulation modeling of information flows in decision making processes for design-to-manufacturing strategies
… of this trend, many companies, especially in high-technology industries, considered design and marketing the company's primary functions. When the United States had superior manufacturing technological capabilities in the 1950's and 1960's, corporate management could systematically neglect …
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The impact of direct foreign investment upon industrial structure. A case study of the uk electrical and instrument engineering industry: A reappraisal of the model of industrial structure incorporating the impact of direct foreign investment, utilising empirical evidence from a survey of the electrical and instrument engineering industry.
… affiliates. This is particularly noticeable in high technology industries such as Electrical and Instrument Engineering. The thesis identifies the mechanism by which direct foreign investment can influence industrial structure in such an industry; charts the effects within the UK Electrical and …
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Technological overlap and the performance implications for the acquisition of small technology firms
… the performance implications of acquisitions in high technology industries. I use this setting to understand what factors affect a firm’s ability to successfully acquire external technology to enhance its innovative productivity, decrease the time elapsed until the initial post-acquisition …
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