Innovation, Globalization and Firm Dynamics: Lessons for Enterprise Policy

ISBN-13: 9780415836777 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 376 str.

Anna M. Ferragina; Erol Taymaz; Kamil Yilmaz

Opis

This book is about the relationship between firm dynamics, innovation and globalization, the processes that are essential for long term economic growth and welfare creation. This volume deals with these three issues in three sections titled respectively: entrepreneurship, new firm formation and growth; productivity-innovation-growthnexus; globalization, multinational firms and producers dynamics. The book presents new studies written by distinguished researchers in the field, who use state-of-the-art methodologies and extensive sources of firm- and plant-level longitudinal data to analyze and understand these major economic issues facing modern economies.

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Spis treści

1. Entrepreneurship And Post-Entry Performance: The Microeconomic Evidence 2. Gibrat's Law, Firms' Growth (and decline) and the Evolution of Firms' Size Distribution 3. Firm Size Distribution and Returns to Scale. Non-Parametric Frontier Estimates from Italian Manufacturing 4. Innovation, growth and survival of Spanish manufacturing firms 5. Survival of the Fittest: Productivity versus Corruption Effects 6. Innovation and Exports of German Business Services Enterprises: First Evidence from a New Type of Firm Data 7. Young, Small and Export Oriented: the Moroccan Winners? 8. Financial fragility and the distribution of firm growth rates: A Quantile Regressions Approach 9. Determinants of Entry and Exit: Evidence from Tunisian Manufacturing Industries 10. Foreign Direct Investment and Firm Survival in Transition Countries 11. Foreign Ownership, Survival and Growth Dynamics in Turkish Manufacturing 12. Foreign investment and firm selection in Italy: the role of linkages and absorptive capacity 13. Global Activities and Plant Survival - The Case of Sweden 14. Firm Survival and Employment Dynamics during Crises 15. What have We Learned? Lessons for Enterprise Policy

O autorze

Anna Maria Ferragina is assistant professor of Economics at the University of Salerno, researcher of the Centre of Labour Economics and Political Economy (CELPE, University of Salerno) and member of the Board of Directors of the Forum Euroméditerranéen des Instituts de Sciences Économiques (FEMISE) Erol Taymaz is a Professor of Economics at Middle East Technical University , Ankara, Turkey Kamil Yılmaz is a Professor of Economics at Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey