After a severe crisis in the early 1990s, the Swedish economy experienced a boom in productivity growth. Economists have presented three explanations for the fast productivity growth in 1995–2004: market reforms, crisis recovery and the impact of information and communication technology (ICT). This paper offers an alternative view, emphasizing instead firms’ substantial investment in intangible...

Throughout the past decade, theme of reputation has attracted growing interest in world corporate business. This is primarily due to fact that beginning have an increasing impact on capitalization brands. In addition, accelerated development information technology and subsequent large-scale expansion organization into digital markets, with a new force, expanded scientific field research intangi...

This paper provides new evidence on the role of intangible capital in global value chains (GVCs) by focusing multinational enterprises (MNEs) and their foreign affiliates capture through assets. Industry-level data suggest that MNEs generate more income than domestic-owned firms. Intangible returns from are found both host economy foreign-owned firms other countries participating GVC. Some hete...

I add intangible capital to a variant of the neoclassical growth model and study the implications for cross-country income differences. I calibrate the parameters associated with intangible capital by using new estimates of investment in intangibles by Corrado et al. (2006). When intangible capital is added to the model, the TFP elasticity of output increases from 2.14 to 2.64. This finding imp...

Context: Business process modeling is an essential part of understanding and redesigning the activities that a typical enterprise uses to achieve its business goals. The quality of a business process model has a significant impact on the development of any enterprise and IT support for that process. Objective: Since the insights on what constitutes modeling quality are constantly evolving, it i...

Existing theories identify elements of a firm’s intangible value as possible reasons for alliance formation. However, the question of how firms come to know the extent of this intangible value is often not addressed. This study proposes that knowledge flows between organizations are the basis for identifying a partner firm’s intangible value. This research suggests that alliances which overlap ...

The transformations taking place in consumers’ behaviour, brought on by the growing importance attributed to intangible elements in purchasing decisions, induce the different places of purchase, gravitating to the area (urban or rural), to enhance the intangible components of its marketing system. This article examines the way the different commercial centres are responding to the need for inta...