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.
Do African Manufacturing Firms Learn from Exporting?
Using firm-level panel data for the manufacturing sector in four African countries, the authors estimate the effect of exporting on efficiency. Evidence of learning-by-exporting suggests that Africa has much to gain from orientating its manufacturing sector towards exporting.
Why is Manufacturing Trade Rising Even as Manufacturing Output is Falling?
The paper examines the role of international trade theory in explaining why developed countries have experienced increases in manufacturing exports as a share of GDP, and declines in manufacturing value-added as a share of GDP.
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.
Renewing Canadas Manufacturing Economy: A Regional Comparison, 1973-1996
This paper measures the degree of job renewal in Canadian manufacturing as a whole and across provinces. This study uses a longitudinal microdata set that covers the population of manufacturing plants in Canada from 1973 to 1996.
Innovation, Survival and Performance of Canadian Manufacturing Plants
This paper examines the determinants of innovation and the role of innovation in productivity growth, shifts in market share and survival in the Canadian manufacturing sector. It presents a model that examines the effect of innovation on plant performance and plant survival.
Four Decades of Creative Destruction: Renewing Canadas Manufacturing Base from 1961-1999
his paper measures the extent of economic renewal in Canadas manufacturing sector over a four-decade period, 1961 to 1999, which roughly represents the productive lifetime of a worker.