scholarly journals Digital inbound marketing: Measuring the economic performance of grocery e-commerce in Europe and the USA

2021 ◽  
Vol 162 ◽  
pp. 120373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anett Erdmann ◽  
José M. Ponzoa
Keyword(s):  
Economic Performance ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Inbound Marketing

Predicting productivity gains from parking behavior

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 462-470
Author(s):  
Shaomin Li
Keyword(s):  
Economic Performance ◽  
Economic Data ◽  
Delayed Gratification ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Bric Countries ◽  
Collective Effort ◽  
Strong Positive Relationship ◽  
Savings Rate ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Productivity Gains

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to use parking behavior as a direct measure of delayed gratification, a cultural trait recognized by scholars as contributing to people's economic success. Backing into a parking space requires more time and effort, but it will enable the driver to exit more easily, safely, and quickly in the future. The author argue that people who park their cars back-in embody a culture of delayed gratification, and societies with a higher back-in parking rate tend to have better economic performance. Design/methodology/approach – The author tested the hypothesis using parking and economic data from the BRIC countries, Taiwan, and the USA. Findings – Results show that there is a strong positive relationship between back-in parking and labor productivity gains. The author also found that back-in parking positively correlates with economic growth, savings rate, and educational attainment. Originality/value – This is the first study that uses parking behavior to predict economic performance. The feasibility of collecting parking behavior data across countries provides a new and viable way to overcome the limitation of relying on attitudinal or experimental data to measure the culture and behaviors of delayed gratification. The author therefore call for a collective effort to establish a “Global Parking Index.” Such an index will help us better understand parking behavior and how it may relate to socioeconomic performance such as learning, saving, and investing.

Open for Politics? Globalization, Economic Growth, and Responsibility Attribution

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-100
Author(s):  
Nathan M. Jensen ◽  
Guillermo Rosas
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Experimental Evidence ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
Responsibility Attribution ◽  
Economic Openness ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Clarity Of Responsibility ◽  
Survey Experiments ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Impact

AbstractPrevious literature suggests that economic performance affects government approval asymmetrically, either because voters are quicker to blame incompetence than to credit ability (grievance asymmetry) or because they understand that the degree to which policy-makers can affect the economy varies depending on economic openness (clarity of responsibility asymmetry). We seek to understand whether these asymmetries coexist, arguing that these theories conjointly imply that globalization may have the capacity to mitigate blame for bad outcomes but should neither promote nor reduce credit to policy-makers for good economic outcomes. We look for evidence of these asymmetries in three survey experiments carried out in the USA and Canada in 2014 and 2015. We find ample experimental evidence in support of the grievance asymmetry, but our results are mixed on the impact of economic openness on blame mitigation, with some evidence of this phenomenon in the USA, but not in Canada.

Labour Market and Economic Performance: Europe, Japan and the USA.

1996 ◽  
Vol 106 (436) ◽  
pp. 724
Author(s):  
Patrick Minford ◽  
Toshiaki Tachibanaki
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
The Usa

scholarly journals Estimating the drivers of urban economic complexity and their connection to economic performance

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 210670
Author(s):  
Andres Gomez-Lievano ◽  
Oscar Patterson-Lomba
Keyword(s):  
Economic Performance ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Probability Function ◽  
Know How ◽  
Economic Complexity ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Urban Scaling ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The City ◽  
Urban Activity

Estimating the capabilities, or inputs of production, that drive and constrain the economic development of urban areas has remained a challenging goal. We posit that capabilities are instantiated in the complexity and sophistication of urban activities, the know-how of individual workers, and the city-wide collective know-how. We derive a model that indicates how the value of these three quantities can be inferred from the probability that an individual in a city is employed in a given urban activity. We illustrate how to estimate empirically these variables using data on employment across industries and metropolitan statistical areas in the USA. We then show how the functional form of the probability function derived from our theory is statistically superior when compared with competing alternative models, and that it explains well-known results in the urban scaling and economic complexity literature. Finally, we show how the quantities are associated with metrics of economic performance, suggesting our theory can provide testable implications for why some cities are more prosperous than others.

Sale of Canada’s public forests: Economically non-viable option

2009 ◽  
Vol 85 (6) ◽  
pp. 841-848 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shashi Kant
Keyword(s):  
Economic Performance ◽  
Land Ownership ◽  
Forest Industry ◽  
Private Ownership ◽  
Private Forest ◽  
Forest Land ◽  
Wood Supply ◽  
Forest Ownership ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Public Forests

In recent years, some economists and journalists have argued that since only 7% of Canadian forests are under private ownership, Canadian public forests should be sold to private companies. In this paper, I examine and analyze global forest ownership and recent trends in the change in forest land ownership. In Canada, 26.5 million ha of forest land are under private ownership, while the area of forest land (of each country) of more than 200 countries, including Sweden, Finland, Germany, France, Japan, and New Zealand, is less than the area of Canada’s private forest land. Similarly, the forest industry in Canada owns more forest land available for wood supply than the forest industry in any other developed country except the USA and Sweden. There is no direct relationship between private forest ownership and the economic performance of forest industry in a country. I examine 3 cases of change in forest land ownership: Timber Investment Management Organizations and Real Estate Investment Trusts in the USA, restitution of forest land in economies in transition, and sale of plantations in Chile. None of the cases provide economic evidence in support of sale of Canadian public forests. I conclude that the sale of the Crown forest land will not only be environmentally, socially, and politically unacceptable, but will not be economically viable. Key words: Canada, economic performance, forest ownership, forest tenure, privatization, restitution of forest land, timber investment management organizations, wood supply

National corporate social policy, corporate governance systems, and organizational capabilities

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manzur Rahman ◽  
Claudio Carpano
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
Central Element ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Organizational Capabilities ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Governance Systems ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Corporate Social

Purpose In this paper, the authors aim to look at the relationship between divergent national corporate social policies as embedded in corporate governance regimes and the development of the firm’s organizational capabilities. More specifically, the authors illustrate how the different systems of corporate governance developed in the USA and Germany are major resource-based factors on the decision to develop production-related organizational capabilities. The authors develop an integrative framework, drawing on both the corporate governance, as well as strategic management literatures, to explain idiosyncrasies and commonalities in capability development. In the aggregate, this would lead to differential corporate social and economic performance between Germany and the USA. Design/methodology/approach This is a conceptual paper that develops a framework to link national corporate social policy as embedded in governance systems to corporate social and economic performance. Findings Corporate governance systems – embodying divergent corporate social responsibility (CSR) orientations vis-à-vis the firm’s stakeholders – can be viewed as determinants of group-specific resources that will not be transferable across different nation-states, leading to divergent corporate social and economic performance. Originality/value The analysis emphasizes that CSR is an essential element of corporate governance. The authors highlight that regulatory, normative and cognitive institutional structures and orientations help to utilize and configure important firm-specific, industry-specific and country-specific resources and capabilities. This framework also contributes to recent developments in the corporate governance and management literatures that position CSR as a central element of corporate governance institutions.

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