manufacturing

Manufacturing Profile of Flexible and Low-cost Producers: An Empiral Study

The objective of the study is to test the trade-off theory empirically using the data of the International Manufacturing Strategy Survey. Results confirms the well accepted manufacturing profile of low cost producers, which typically use a line process, and of flexible producers, which typically produce in a job shop.

Heterogeneity, Productivity and Selection: An Empirical Study of Norwegian Manufacturing Firms

Using evidence from a new panel data set for four high-tech, manufacturing industries covering a 10-year period, the authors show how differences in sales, materials, labor costs and capital across firms can be summarized by firm-specific, dynamic factors, which we interpret in view of a structural model.

Exploring Danish Innovative Manufacturing Performance

The paper explores several dimensions of Danish industrys innovative performance with respect to the paradigm of the fifth generation innovation model that was suggested by Rothwell. Results indicate that Danish manufacturing companies demonstrate an innovative performance close to the fourth generation of innovation, which is slightly different than it is perceived publicly.

Vertical Integration and Technology: Theory and Evidence

This paper investigates the determinants of vertical integration using data from the U.K. manufacturing sector. The authors find that the relationship between a downstream (producer) industry and an upstream (supplier) industry is more likely to be vertically integrated when the producing industry is more technology intensive and the supplying industry is less technology intensive.

An Empirically-Based Taxonomy of Dutch Manufacturing: Innovation Policy Implications

The paper studies the degree of homogeneity of innovative behavior in order to determine empirically an industry classification of Dutch manufacturing that can be used for policy purposes. Dutch manufacturing consists of three groups of industries in terms of innovative behavior, a high-tech group, a low-tech group and the industry of wood, where firms seem to have a rather different innovative behavior from the remaining industries.