This paper investigates whether and how China's adoption of Soviet-aided industrialization programs in the 1950s has affected its long-run innovation. Focusing on 156 major industrial projects aided by Soviet Union, combined with an instrumental variable approach, I find that these substantially discourages local firms to innovate long run. A causal mediation analysis settings shows negative ef...

Today’s consumers are more aware of the environmental issues caused by heavy industrialization. They demand eco friendly products which will reduce the damages caused by industrialization. They are interested in buying eco friendly products and willing to pay more (Consumers who care). The willingness to pay more on eco-friendly products differs among demographic groups. This difference is caus...

1. Executive Summary 2. Introduction 3. Industrial Relations (IR) in the Global Context (a) IR-a definition (b) IR and HRM (c) Liberalization, globalization and IR (i) Overview (ii) The relevance of globalization to industrial relations-a summary (iii) The role of multinational corporations (MNC's) (iv) Information technology and IR (v) The impact of other trends (d) The changing nature of IR-a...

— The Indian State of Kerala presents a paradox of development, with its remarkable social achievements and relative industrial backwardness. This paper describes Kerala’s industrial backwardness as due to a path-dependent process of industrialization. A policy decision in the 1930s—marked by a priority for investments in chemical-based industries and the identification of hydroelectricity as a...

In this paper, a mathematical model is proposed and analysed to study the simultaneous effect of industrialization, population and pollution on the depletion of a renewable resource. Criteria for local stability, global stability and instability are obtained. It is shown that if the densities of industrialization, population and pollution increase, then the density of the resource biomass decre...

The Industrial Revolution is arguably one of the most important social phenomena responsible for shaping the modern world. Of course, some historians and economists have long contended that this was or was not a ‘‘revolution’’ in the strictest sense of the word and scholars still debate whether the use of this metaphor is problematic. Most writers agree that this was not an event, but rather a ...

Most existing studies of successful late industrialization, which draw on findings from high-technology vailable online 20 November 2008

Like in automotive and other production oriented domains industrialization was the key issue for reducing production costs and being competitive. However software is still developed mainly from scratch in a labour intensive way. In order to be competitive with e.g. low-wage countries the software development process has to be industrialized and automated. The modeldriven software development ap...

‘Proto-industrialization’ is the name given to the massive expansion of exportoriented handicrafts which took place in many parts of Europe between the 16th and the 19th centuries. An influential theory holds that these proto-industries generated the capital, labour, entrepreneurship, agricultural commercialization, and consumer demand needed for factory industrialization. Protoindustrializatio...

The most important factor for economic development of a country is its industrialization. In the process of industrialization, emphasis is given to the three major groups of industries; large-scale industries, small-scale industries and cottage industries. We propose to study in this paper the problems and prospects of small-scale and cottage industries in Uttar Pradesh, where large and medium ...