. This paper and the others in this symposium explore the economics of such systems. Market competition between systems, as opposed to market competition between individual products, highlights at least three important issues: expectations, coordination, and compatibility. A recent wave of research has focused

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In recent years research in the planning community has moved increasingly towards application of planners to realistic problems involving both time and many types of resources. For example, interest in planning demonstrated by the space research community has inspired work in observation scheduling

This paper attempts to discuss national research policy and higher education reform by focusing on the current situation of competitive research environment in the

Is there a role for domestic demand pressure on export performance?

Stereotype research emphasizes systematic processes over seemingly arbitrary contents, but content also may prove systematic. On the basis of stereotypes ’ intergroup functions, the stereotype content model hypothesizes that (a) 2 primary dimensions are competence and warmth, (b) frequent mixed

This paper was prepared as a contribution to the Trade and Immigration Project of the National Bureau of Economic Research. We have also received research support from the Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research, Northwestern University and the Industrial Relations Section, Princeton

Do firms employing undocumented workers have a competitive advantage? Using administrative data from the state of Georgia, this paper investigates the incidence of undocumented worker employment across firms and how it affects firm survival. Firms are found to engage in herding behavior, being more

Research on productivity often examines the relationship between productivity increases and structural changes in an economy. such as trade policy reform. If, however, policy reforms affect the nature of competition. then the productivity changes associated with trade reform may be mismeasured

organizational resources of the firm and its trading partners, as well as the competitive and macro environment. Our analysis provides a blueprint to guide future research and facilitate knowledge accumulation and creation concerning the organizational performance impacts of information technology.