scholarly journals A Study on the Core-Transient Structure of Small Firms' employment system : in the Case of Manufacturing firms in Ansan-Siheung Smart Hub

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-97
Author(s):  
손정순
Keyword(s):  
Small Firms ◽  
Manufacturing Firms ◽  
Employment System ◽  
The Core ◽  
Transient Structure

scholarly journals Local product space and firm-level churning in exported products

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 1473-1496
Author(s):  
Cilem Selin Hazir ◽  
Flora Bellone ◽  
Cyrielle Gaglio
Keyword(s):  
Product Space ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Product Market ◽  
Manufacturing Firms ◽  
Entry And Exit ◽  
Micro Data ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
The Core ◽  
Local Product ◽  
Core Capabilities

Abstract This article explores the determinants of changes to the range of exports at the firm level with a focus on the role played by the firm’s local environment. It extends the model developed by Bernard et al. (2010) to a multiregional setting to account for localized externalities. The model is tested using French micro-data on monoregional manufacturing firms covering the period 2002–2007. Our main finding is that the local product space has an impact on exporters’ product-market entry and exit decisions. Firms tend to modify their exported product mix to achieve congruence with the core products of the locality. Also, firms receive higher revenue from the export of products that are more related to the core capabilities of the locality.

Manufacturing Firms in Developing Countries: How Well Do They Do, and Why?

2000 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
James R Tybout
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Small Groups ◽  
Small Firms ◽  
Scale Economies ◽  
Manufacturing Firms ◽  
Monopoly Power ◽  
Firm Productivity ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Manufacturing Sectors ◽  
Open Issues

The manufacturing sectors of developing countries have traditionally been relatively protected. They have also been subject to heavy regulation, much of which has favored large firms. Accordingly, it is often argued that in these countries: (1) markets tolerate inefficient firms, so cross-firm productivity dispersion is high; (2) small groups of entrenched oligopolists exploit monopoly power in product markets; and (3) many small firms are unable or unwilling to grow, so important scale economies go unexploited. Drawing on plant and firm level studies, I assess each of these conjectures and find none to be systematically supported. However, many open issues remain.

An Investigation of the Four Dimensions of Innovation in Small Scale Firms in Lagos State, Nigeria

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunday Amiolemen ◽  
Olutunde Babalola ◽  
Stephen Adegbite ◽  
Idowu Ologeh ◽  
Olapeju Adekola ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Product Development ◽  
Product Innovation ◽  
Small Firms ◽  
Organizational Innovation ◽  
Process Innovation ◽  
Manufacturing Firms ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Marketing Innovation ◽  
Lagos State

The paper examined the dimensions of innovation in small scale manufacturing firms with a view to understanding the interaction and relationship among product innovation, process innovation, organizational innovation, and marketing innovation. It further determines the relationship that exists between sales turnover and the four dimensions of innovation. Forty-six small manufacturing firms were sampled across the 4 major small scale Industrial Estates in Lagos State. The paper observed that these small firms engaged mainly in process innovation. The correlation analysis revealed a significant relationship between marketing and process innovation (r = 0.51; p<0.01) while there is no causality between product and process innovation (r = 0.31; p<0.05); product innovation and organizational innovation (r = 0.22; p<0.05); product innovation and marketing innovation (r = 0.11; p<0.05); and process and organizational innovation (r = 0.27; p<0.05) in these firms. The paper concludes that these firms are solely interested in upgrading and renewal of products, improving new methods of production, supply and distribution. The paper finally submitted that the observed trend is not unconnected with poor R&D initiative between small firms and research institutions, poor technological innovation capability of firms, and poor linkages/collaboration among stakeholder on new product development.

scholarly journals Effect of VAT Adoption on Manufacturing Firms in Ethiopia

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Soule Sow ◽  
Mesay Gebresilasse
Keyword(s):  
Small Firms ◽  
Production Efficiency ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Manufacturing Firms ◽  
Tax Revenue ◽  
Difference In Differences ◽  
Tax Rate ◽  
Revenue Efficiency ◽  
The Impact

To remedy their low fiscal capacity problem, many developing countries adopted value-added taxation because they believe it will raise tax revenue and improve the production efficiency of firms. In this paper, we study the impact of the adoption of the value-added tax (VAT) on firms by analyzing the introduction of VAT in Ethiopia in 2003 using panel data of manufacturing firms (1996-2009). By law, a firm is required to register for VAT if it is big (its revenue is higher than 500,000 Birr); otherwise, the firm is small and faces a much lower turnover tax rate. Using a difference in differences strategy with big firms as a treatment and small firms as control, and excluding firms that might potentially bunch around the threshold, we find taxes paid, reported revenue, taxes paid out of revenue, value-added, and raw materials use increase for big firms. However, the share of inputs in revenue fell suggesting VAT increased revenue efficiency by not production efficiency.

scholarly journals EFFECTS OF WORKING CAPITAL CYCLE ON PROFITABILITY OF MANUFACTURING FIRMS IN GHANA

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
Alfonse Editor Kisilu
Keyword(s):  
Research Design ◽  
Small Firms ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Manufacturing Firms ◽  
Sampling Frame ◽  
Working Capital ◽  
Beta Coefficient ◽  
The Government

Purpose: The study was on the effects of working capital cycle on profitability of manufacturing firms in Ghana.Methodology: The research design used in this study was explanatory research design. There are 78 large manufacturing firms in Loan Book of Barclays Bank Ghana.  The population of the study is therefore 78 firms.  The sampling frame was the loan book of Barclays Bank Ghana.  It is for this reason that the study considered 50% of the population to be the sample size. This yielded 39 large manufacturing firms.  The study used secondary data only for the purposes of analysis and drawing of conclusions. Descriptive statistics included mean scores and inferential statistics included regression modeling.Results: Results show that there is a negative relationship between profit before tax and mean debtor’s collection period whose beta coefficients is -1817.81. Results show that there is a negative relationship between profit before tax and mean inventory conversion period whose beta coefficients is -103.762. The mean payable deferral period had a positive relationship with profitability with a beta coefficient of 1097.073. The findings show that there is a negative relationship between profit before tax and working capital conversion cycle with a beta coefficient of -816.198.Policy recommendation: It was recommended that speeding up payments to suppliers might increase profitability because firms often receive a substantial discount for prompt payment.It was also recommended that the government should intervene by way of a legislation that would impose penalty interest for delayed payment of commercial debts. Such a provision would create a level playing field by binding all firms to pay promptly and ease the cash flow problems of small firms, who will be compensated for any overdue payments. It was recommended that the owners of firms be made more aware and trained on the best credit management practice. That way, they could reduce the amount of overdue debt and alleviate the problem.

scholarly journals Efficient Utilization of Resources in Manufacturing Firms

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 182-196
Author(s):  
Md. Shakil Ahmed ◽  
Mohammed Ziaul Haider
Keyword(s):  
Small Firms ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Labour Productivity ◽  
Manufacturing Firms ◽  
West Region ◽  
Lower Productivity ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Productive Labour ◽  
Medium Firms

This study describes the optimality in resource utilization of the manufacturing firms in the south-west region of Bangladesh. A translog production function has been estimated to describe the input-output relationship. The large scale firms have the opportunity to substitute capital for labour for producing the same level of output. On the other hand, scarcity in capital leads to lower productivity of labour in medium and small firms. Therefore, an increase in capital may lead to an increase in labour productivity as well as output for these small and medium firms. The productive labour force may ensure proper utilization of the capital resources as well as the long run growth.

Learning Organizations or Organizations for Learning? How Small Firms can Learn from Planned and Random Technical Problem-Solving

2011 ◽  
pp. 863-887
Author(s):  
Corrado lo Storto
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Small Firms ◽  
Procedural Knowledge ◽  
Technical Problem ◽  
Manufacturing Firms ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Knowledge Generation ◽  
Cognitive Systems ◽  
Problem Complexity ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter reports the findings of an empirical study whose purpose is to identify the attributes of the organization infrastructure that support organizational learning in small manufacturing firms through the creation of procedural knowledge. The study is based on the following assumptions: a) organizations are cognitive systems that process information and knowledge; b) knowledge is a by-product of technical problem solving; c) innovation occurs as a stream of random or planned problem solving; d) many attributes of the organization infrastructure that foster innovation also foster knowledge generation during technical problem solving. Findings show that three dimensions of the organization infrastructure have an influence on learning: openness, innovativeness, and leadership. These attributes identify two typologies of organization infrastructures that differently affect the generation of procedural knowledge and learning. In particular, it was found that the organization infrastructure has a moderating effect on the relationship between some context factors (environment diversity, problem complexity, context ambiguity, and uncertainty) and the amount of procedural knowledge generated during technical problem solving. Implications for technical education are also discussed.

Innovazione e ricerca nell'industria italiana. Alcune evidenze dell'indagine MET

2009 ◽  
pp. 193-207
Author(s):  
Raffaele Brancati ◽  
Davide Ciferri ◽  
Andrea Maresca
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Firm Size ◽  
Small Firms ◽  
National Level ◽  
Manufacturing Firms ◽  
Industrial System ◽  
Italian Regions ◽  
Italian Manufacturing Firms ◽  
Detailed Picture

- This work provides results from a survey based on a very large sample (25,000 firms) of Italian manufacturing firms carried out by MET in 2008. This survey, completed straight before the deepening of the financial crisis, aims to offer a detailed picture of the Italian industrial system with its regional, dimensional and sector-based variability. We show some evidence related to innovation and R&D activities. Intense heterogeneity among Italian regions is identified (other than north/south dualism). The main contribution of the work is to provide some measures of innovation and R&D for the smallest firms. Firm size is particularly relevant in explaining the intensity of R&D and the spread of innovation. Nevertheless, there is a key role of small firms in explaining the aggregate innovation performance both at regional and national level. Strong links between Innovation, R&D and Internationalisation are confirmed. R&D activities among small firms have specific characteristics: external research is widespread with an important role played by laboratories shared with other firms.

Harnessing Supply Chain Knowledge for Mitigating the Negative Effects of Bricolage

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (04) ◽  
pp. 2050023
Author(s):  
Gurjeet Kaur Sahi ◽  
Nivedita Agarwal
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Firm Performance ◽  
Small Firms ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Manufacturing Firms ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
North West ◽  
Final Sample ◽  
Quadratic Effects ◽  
Positive Effect

Bricolage is a term used to illustrate the practice in which small firms tap scant available resources to exploit business opportunities and to facilitate innovation. We focus on decreasing returns from excessive bricolage and, more importantly, highlight an important role played by supply chain knowledge in mitigating decreasing returns from bricolage. The role played by supply chain knowledge in reducing the negative effects of excessive bricolage is not explored yet. This study, in the context of an emerging economy, seeks to isolate the linear and quadratic effects of bricolage on firm performance and examines the moderating influence of supply chain knowledge on the bricolage-to-firm performance relationship. To test the proposed relationships, data from large-scale manufacturing firms in north-west India were used. The final sample size of 106 firms was used for testing the relationships using stepwise OLS analysis. The results revealed that at lower levels of supply chain knowledge, bricolage had an inverted-U relationship with firm performance. In other words, supply chain knowledge mitigates the negative effects of bricolage on performance. However, it did not strengthen the positive effect of bricolage on performance.

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