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A North American Perspective
The Dynamics of Industrial Competition describes the internal dynamics of industries using new and unique longitudinal data that make it possible to t...
Canadian Industry and International Implications
This study of innovation - its intensity, the sources used for knowledge creation, and its impacts - is based on a comprehensive survey of innovation ...
INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION FOR EVERYDAY LIFE Face the global challenges of the future with this accessible introduction to communication across bound...
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Perspectives Across the Disciplines
Multinationals, Foreign Ownership and Productivity Growth in Canadian Manufacturing
This paper examines two potential benefits of foreign-controlled plants in the Canadian manufacturing sector: the superior performance of foreign-cont...
This paper assesses the contribution that foreign-controlled plants make to the Canadian manufacturing sector by examining both whether foreign-contro...
A Canada/U.S. Comparison
This paper examines the trend in the importance of small producers in the Canadian and U.S. manufacturing sectors from the early 1970s to the late 199...
Exploring Scotland's Heritage provides an up-to-date and authoritative introduction to the rich archaeological heritage of the country, tracing human ...
Entry is important because new firms and new plants provide an important source of competition to incumbents. They are a source of new products and te...
This paper examines the effect of trade liberalization on plant scale, production-run length and product diversification. We first develop a model of ...
The Evolution of the Natural Monopoly Contract, Second Edition
Using the transaction-cost literature pioneered by Oliver Williamson, John Baldwin examines contractual failure in Canada in natural monopoly cases, a...
The Key to Success in Small Firms
This study examines the differences in strategies and activities pursued by a sample of more-successful and less-successful group of growing small-and...
This paper investigates the extent to which productivity growth is the result of firm turnover as output is shifted from one firm to another, driven b...
This paper investigates the extent to which productivity growth is the result of turnover - the process that shifts output from one firm to another as...
The strategies and competencies of small and medium-sized firms are explored here using the responses to the Survey of Growing Small and Medium Size E...
This paper investigates the characteristics of Canadian manufacturing plants that are related to the use of advanced technologies. The data used are t...
The Role of Intellectual Property Rights
This paper examines how several factors contribute to innovative activity in the Canadian manufacturing sector. First, it investigates the extent to w...
Changes in Product Diversification in Foreign- and Domestic-Controlled Plants
This paper studies the impact that a small country joining a regional trade agreement, but particularly a small country, might be expected to gain fro...
Learning and Post- Entry Performance
This paper examines the maturation process of firms that enter an industry by constructing new plants and investigates the extent to which improvement...
This paper examines whether new views of the multinational that see these firms as decentralizing R&D activities abroad to exploit local competencies ...
A Canada and United States Comparison
This paper uses job turnover data to compare how job creation, job destruction and net job change differ for small and large establishments in the Can...
This study investigates differences in the policies being pursued by innovative and non-innovative firms. It focuses on a broad group of strategies in...
An Empirical Analysis
Using a comprehensive mic ......
This paper examines the determinants of mergers across plant-size classes by comparing changes in domestic and foreign control in the Canadian manufac...
This paper investigates the evolution of industrial structure in the Canadian food processing sector and its relationship to technological change. It ...
This paper examines the influence of the self-employed on the growth in labour productivity in the business sector. There has been a dramatic expansio...
The Performance of Provincial GDP Per Capita from 1990 to 2003
This paper compares GDP per capita across Canadian provinces over the period from 1990 to 2003. It starts by examining relative GDP per capita measure...
This paper examines the relationship between productivity of a manufacturing plant and its participation in exporting activities. There are 2 possible...
Export-Market Participation, Productivity Growth and Innovation
The paper examines how Canadian manufacturing plants have responded to reductions in tariff barriers between Canada and the rest of world over the pas...
This paper examines the determinants of the adoption lag for advanced technologies in the Canadian manufacturing sector. It uses plant-level data coll...
Small firms are often seen to be the engines of growth. There are two main sources of empirical evidence that are adduced to support this conclusion. ...
This paper examines head office employment in the Canadian manufacturing sector. It focuses on the characteristics that are related to the creation of...
Microdata Panel Estimates from Canadian Manufacturing
This paper identifies the main sources of urban increasing returns, after Marshall. The geographical distance across which externalities flow is also ...
Industry and Regional Dimensions of Job Turnover
This paper investigates the dynamics of job reallocation in the manufacturing sector of Canada. It does so by examining the pattern and magnitude of j...
Technology Use in the Canadian Food Processing Industry
This paper examines the factors contributing to the adoption of advanced technologies in the Canadian food-processing sector. The numbers of technolog...
This paper examines the determinants of innovation and the role of innovation in productivity growth, shifts in market share and survival in the Canad...