In this paper we have attempted to examine aspects of the competitive selection process, firms’ entry, survival and exit, in an important sector of Chinese manufacturing, looking in particular for changes resulting from the latest stage of reform, dubbed the transition to the “socialist market economy”. These dynamic processes may be becoming increasingly important for the continuing growth of ...

This paper aims to describe how spatial characteristics of regions relate to the growth of firm population in Turkey. Between the observed period, from 1985 to 1992 in most parts of the country change in firm population is negative. The regions with positive rates are located on the main highways of Turkey and they do form an axis from the Southeast through the inner part to the North and North...

In this study, we examine the relationship between firm size and the use of electronic commerce (EC) by container transport operators in Hong Kong and their performance implications. Using data collected from a sample of container shipping operators in Hong Kong, we identified internal and external drivers that affect the use of EC by container transport operators. Our findings indicate that la...

We study the relationships between firm financial structure and growth for a large sample of Italian firms (1998-2003). We expand upon existing analyses testing whether liquidity constraints affect firm performance by considering among growth determinants also firm debt structure. Panel regression analyses show that more liquid firms tend to grow more. However, firms do not use their capital to...

This work explores a number of properties investigated in the empirical literature on firm size and growth dynamics: (i) the distribution and the autoregressive structure of firm size; (ii) the existence of size-growth scaling relationships; (iii) the distribution and the autoregressive structure of scaling-free growth rates. The major novelty concerns our exploiting of a credit rating index to...

The central aim of supply chain management, to have the right product in the right quantities (at the right place) at the right moment at minimal cost. Advancements in information technologies have enabled major innovations in the reengineering of industry's supply chains, redefining the ways companies operate their supply chains. New ventures have emerged to create values for business partners...

This paper is an exploration of the relationships among the firm's financial structure, its choice of liquid asset holdings, and growth. The literature on the determinants of economic growth has long studied the role of financial development in promoting growth. The literature on corporate finance provides some microeconomic underpinnings for this relationship in the form of a variety of partia...