scholarly journals Innovation modes in the Swiss service sector: a cluster analysis based on firm-level data

2003 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 845-863 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heinz Hollenstein
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Innovation Modes ◽  
Firm Level Data

scholarly journals AN APPROACH TO THE COOPERATION FOR INNOVATION IN THE SERVICE SECTOR

2020 ◽  
pp. 2150054
Author(s):  
JUAN CARLOS FERNANDEZ DE ARROYABE ◽  
NIEVES ARRANZ ◽  
KIM YOUNG
Keyword(s):  
Service Sector ◽  
Strategic Orientation ◽  
Theoretical Development ◽  
Service Firms ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Innovation Development ◽  
Services Sector ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Innovation Modes ◽  
Cooperative Agreements

This study examines how firms cooperate for innovation in the services sector. We tested the theoretical development using cluster analysis and ordinal logit regression analysis with firm-level data collected from the Spanish Technological Innovation Panel (PITEC) for the period 2011–2013. Overall, 2,622 service firms have been used. This research contributes as follows: first, the findings show that the greater degree of penetration into the innovation modes of the firms means that the intensity of the use of cooperative agreements as well as the diversity of cooperative partners increases. Second, the empirical evidence for the taxonomy of innovation development in the service sector provides firms with the ways how to innovate based on their strategic orientation.

scholarly journals High-involvement management practices and the productivity of firms: Detecting industry heterogeneity

2020 ◽  
pp. 0143831X2096115
Author(s):  
Laura Peutere ◽  
Antti Saloniemi ◽  
Petri Böckerman ◽  
Simo Aho ◽  
Jouko Nätti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Service Sector ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
The Other ◽  
Representative Survey ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
High Involvement ◽  
Mixture Regression ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Firm Level Data ◽  
High Involvement Management

The aim of this article is to clarify the links between high-involvement management (HIM) practices, productivity and branches of industry. The data combine a representative survey ( N = 787) of private-sector firms in Finland and register-based firm-level data on sales per employee in the year following the survey. The authors analysed the data using mixture regression and identified two clusters in the association between HIM and productivity. In one cluster, high-involvement management and productivity were positively associated, while in the other cluster, the association was negative. The association between the intensity of HIM utilisation and productivity is not always additive; the benefits of HIM were most prominent in industries where HIM was most seldom utilised. This paradox was most notable in the service sector.

Ageing and Employability. Evidence from Belgian Firm-Level Data

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariann Rigo ◽  
Vincent Vandenberghe ◽  
Fábio Waltenberg
Keyword(s):  
Firm Level ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Firm Level Data

scholarly journals Who Really Benefits from Consumption Tax Cuts? Evidence from a Large VAT Reform in France

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Youssef Benzarti ◽  
Dorian Carloni
Keyword(s):  
Value Added ◽  
Consumption Tax ◽  
Difference In Differences ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Employment Effects ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Price Effects ◽  
Firm Level Data ◽  
Material Goods ◽  
Firm Owners

This paper evaluates the incidence of a large cut in value-added taxes (VATs) for French sit-down restaurants in 2009. In contrast to previous studies, which only focus on the price effects of VAT reforms, we estimate the effects of the VAT cut on four groups: workers, firm owners, consumers, and suppliers of material goods. Using a difference-in-differences strategy on firm-level data, we find that: firm owners pocketed more than 55 percent of the VAT cut; consumers, sellers of material goods, and employees shared the remaining windfall with consumers benefiting the least; and the employment effects were limited. (JEL H22, H25, L83)

Multinational Banks and IMF Conditionality

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trung A Dang ◽  
Randall W Stone
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Investment Decisions ◽  
Location Decisions ◽  
Preferential Treatment ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Financial Firms ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Firm Level Data ◽  
Imf Programs ◽  
Investment Location

Abstract We find firm-level evidence that US banks receive preferential treatment in countries under IMF conditionality. We rely on investment location decisions to infer firms’ expectations about future profits and find that US firms are approximately 53 percent more likely to acquire financial firms in countries under financial conditionality. IMF programs without financial conditionality and FDI in other sectors serve as placebo tests. Financial conditionality has weak effects on investment decisions by non-US firms, which implies a political-economy interpretation. Firm-level data indicate that the distinctive behavior of US firms is not due to advantages of scale or to a US-firm fixed effect, but to US influence in the IMF. Firms from other major IMF shareholders benefit as well, but the effects are much weaker. The effects are concentrated in the politically relevant firms that have local affiliates, which is consistent with the interpretation that firms lobby for preferential treatment.

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