manufacturing

This paper first examines the rapid growth and changing composition of manufactured exports in Indonesia and Thailand, highlighting the rapid growth of office and computer machinery and electric machinery, somewhat slower growth of non-electric and transportation machinery, as well as the low growth of previously large exports of textiles apparel.

This study considers the internationalization efforts of a sample of Lithuanian manufacturing SMEs. Specifically, it is sought to reveal whether any patterns in the foreign market entry decisions of these firms may be found, through an examination of the degree of internationalization and its dependence on company age, size, risk aversion, commitment toward internationalization and knowledge acquisition.

External demand for manufactured products is of four types: demand for investment goods, demand for consumer goods, demand for intermediate goods
for other sectors, and export demand. This paper represents these four types of demand.

The purpose of this paper is to test the general validity of the NKPC previsions for the Italian manufacturing industries. In particular, estimating the extent to which the degree of nominal inertia and the fraction of backward-looking price-setters differ from industry to industry.

This paper extends existing research to take account of enterprise ownership and export market destination. It explores these issues using micro data on Irish manufacturing between 1991 and 1998, a time period during which Ireland experienced rapid export-driven growth.

The author conducted regional benchmarking studies on business practices in manufacturing plants within three regions of Sweden. The studies showed inter alia that the gap in performance between leaders and laggers is particularly wide in nformation & benchmarking and Innovation & technology.

According to the report, during 2004, Catalyst Connection continued to enhance substantively both the expertise and the resources we make available to manufacturing companies throughout southwestern Pennsylvania.

The author explains that while manufacturing industry makes up about 20% of Japans GDP, it accounts for 90% of the countrys exports and R&D investment. Accordingly, this industry has a ripple effect on other industries and greatly influences the Japanese economy.

This paper focuses on the role of interurban agglomeration forces in industrial location, assuming that firms not only consider advantages and attraction forces linked to a certain town but also those coming from the nearby area.

About one million manufacturing jobs in California are at risk of ending up in other states or countries unless state government and manufacturers start taking action to keep them, according to the report from the Bay Area Economic Forum. The group notes that lawmakers and politicians need to address issues such as the cost of workers compensation insurance, energy expenses and corporate tax rates, all of which are cited as reasons that made California the most expensive state in the nation to do business in 2002.