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Engineering consulting services constitutes a key knowledge-intensive sector that has existed for a long time, but has gained new importance as a result of the intensification of knowledge-based competition. The emergence of the new economy challenges the ways that engineering consultants have traditionally created and applied new knowledge. Professional engineering services have typically been...

f rom the viewpoint of economic theories, total factor productivity (tfp) is the most important component that leads to economic growth and development. the main purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of knowledge-based economy on total factor productivity in the member countries of the middle east and north africa (mena) region. for this purpose, the panel data regression analysis ha...

How does the formation of cross-country teams affect the organization of work and the structure of wages? To study this question, we propose a theory of the assignment of heterogeneous agents into hierarchical teams, where less skilled agents specialize in production and more skilled agents specialize in problem solving. We first analyze the properties of the competitive equilibrium of the mode...