This paper explores firm growth rate distribution in a Gibrat’s Law context. It is novel in two respects. First, rather than limiting the analysis to a focus on the conditional mean, we investigate the entire shape of the distribution. Second, we show that differences in the firm growth rate process between large and small firms are highly circumstantial and depend on the industry dynamics. The...

In this study we investigated the determinants of the propensity of Swiss firms to train apprentices. Innovation, firm age and competition conditions on the product market are determining factors that were especially emphasized in this investigation. We found that the skill composition of the employment, innovation activities, firm age, labour costs, capital intensity, and competitive pressures...

A claim management office (CMO) is a new intra-organisation fit based on an organisational project (OPM) approach and deals specifically with improving performance. However, CMOs are either misunderstood or often overlooked in construction companies, mainly due to ignorance of the OPM context but further exacerbated by lack real case study research how adopt these organisations. To address this...

Constructing the capital structure of business organization depends on quite very many perspectives and theories. One of these outlooks is the pecking order approach to capital structure construction. The approach is yet to have seemingly homogenous test both qualitative and quantitative. The non-homogeneity posture has been traced to methodology of analysis and assumptions of adverse selection...

This paper studies the distribution of firm productivity and production in a network of geographic locations. Using firm-level data from China’s manufacturing sector from 1998 to 2007, we document that, on average, firms’ geographic locations explain approximately 14% of the productivity dispersion, yet the explanatory power of locations varies significantly across industries. These empirical p...

The paper focuses on new ways of organising product development projects in the construction industry. We discuss two such projects, one in Denmark and one in Finland where different forms of ‘network organisation’ have been tried out. The paper looks at how the existing structure in the construction industry affects the product development projects ‘organised-as-networks’. INTRODUCTION AND PUR...

Construction product platforms provide the opportunity to improve productivity in construction projects while maintaining heterogeneity of output. The growing literature on describes how suppliers develop either top-down or bottom-up, independently from project delivery. Through a single case study consultancy firm, this paper shows specialist firm operating sector developed their own platform ...