this paper aims to share industry experience in managing the reuse and variability in the industry and to analyze the linkage between this topic and system engineering. Reuse and variability management are two faces of the same coin and strongly influence business performance. Hard products industries (where mechanical and structural engineering were historically dominant) and soft systems indu...

[Abstract] In this paper we investigate within-firm wage inequality across heterogeneous industries that hold different positions in the domestic value chain, and across heterogeneous firms that have different exposure to trade. We find that the wage inequality problem is more severe in upstream industries than in downstream ones, and among firms with greater exposure to trade (i.e., larger exp...

over the past years there has been a significant growth in corporate reporting of environmental,social and corporate governance (esg) factors. this study assesses whether esg ratings are related to firmperformance. through a multivariate analysis we have confirmed differences between the esg scores used toevaluate environmental, social and corporate governance factors of rated companies. we che...

A large share of world trade, especially among the OECD countries, is two-way trade within industries, so called intra-industry trade. Despite this, few attempts have been made to examine why countries export some products within industries, whereas they import others. We examine this issue, by means of regression analysis, by examining the shares of IIT that are vertical and horizontal and by ...

12 In this paper, we developed and estimated a model of the Thai firm during the crisis. Our results 13 indicate that firms with the highest debt-equity ratios suffered the steepest declines in earnings per 14 share during the crisis from the financial distressed costs. We take this result as strong evidence for 15 the credit channel. Surprisingly, firms with the largest market capitalizations ...

MIS researchers have developed a number of models for studying the software utilization choices of end users. In this paper, we focus on one of these, the Task-Technology fit model. We explore the addition of various personal characteristic constructs, especially Computer Self-Efficacy and Experience.

This paper investigates the impact of new firms’ quality on the magnitude of their employment effects. Our results clearly show that the quality of start-ups, measured by their affiliation with sectors and innovative industries, strongly influences the direct and the overall employment contribution of new firms. In particular, start-ups in manufacturing industries generate larger direct and ove...

This paper investigates how the fraction of exporting firms among domestic firms in a country differs across industries, depending on the country’s comparative advantage. Although it is a known stylized fact that some firms export while others do not, the variation of the shares of exporters across industries, as well as across countries within the same industry, has been little explored. This ...

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dumbells, barbells, and other early resistance apparati in unexpected Halteres varied greatly in appearance and composition during the era modern historians refer to as Ancient Greece. Accordplaces. In some instances, the printed references were surprising because of the early date at which they were published. In other ing to John Blundell’s The Muscles and Their Story, published in 1864, the ...