This paper describes industrial market structure in consumer package goods (CPG) industries using a unique database spanning 31 industries and the 50 largest US metropolitan markets. In these data, the geographic cross-section of markets accounts for a much larger component of a brand’s total share variation than the time-series. Most industries exhibit striking asymmetries across markets in bo...

Recent years have witnessed the globalisation of many industries. Consequently, globally distributed and virtual teams have become increasingly common in many areas, for example, in new product development and information systems (IS) development. Achieving successful collaborations has become a key challenge for globally distributed organizations, and it is largely dependent on teams’ ability ...

Results: We find that China’s aggregate trade costs are declining, but it is still 1/3 higher than that of developed countries of 10 years ago; bilateral trade costs between China and some countries even risen instead; aggregate trade costs are the determinants, not only of “global” and “local” comparative advantages, but also of export share of China’s manufacturing products, and its effect is...

Thanks to its non-volatility, fast data access, low power and infinite endurance, Spintronics (Nobel Prize 2007) is considered as one of the major technologies beyond CMOS to overcome the power and speed bottlenecks of advance computing systems. This topic is under intense study from device to system levels by both academics and industries. This session brings together the worldwide leading exp...

In this paper, we share the experience gathered in designing and implementing a software factory for healthcare systems based on Health Level Seven standard. We discuss the long term vision and the scoped down proof of concept developed so far. We also outline the challenges encountered in our project and the opportunities to widen the scope of the approach to different industries and, more in ...

Tanning industry is one of the important export oriented industries in Bangladesh. Its performances have been evaluated by using six dimensions: capacity utilization, progressiveness of the firm, share of foreign exchange earnings, amount of revenue earned, job opportunities and image of its products in the international market. Performance has been improving over time but not yet satisfactory....

VCSELs, which emit from the planar surface of the wafer rather than from the cleaved end facets, have been extensively investigated over the last years. The main advantages of these devices over the conventional edge-emitting lasers lie in their spatial and spectral output properties as well as manufacturing, testing, and packaging at lower cost. Because of their suitability for monolithic inte...

This paper reports preliminary findings from the National Hospital Rate-Setting Study regarding the effects of State prospective reimbursement (PR) programs on measures of payroll costs and employment in hospitals. PR effects were estimated through reduced-form equations, using American Hospital Association Annual Survey data on over 2,700 hospitals from 1969 through 1978. These tests suggest t...

With Location Quotient and Shift-Share-Method, this paper evaluated the competitiveness of manufacturing industries in Hubei province post Financial Crisis Era based on the panel data from 2008 to 2011of Output Value of Industrial Products Sales and Delivery Value for Export of Large and Medium Scale Industrial Enterprises. On basis of these, this paper also put forward some countermeasures to ...

Despite her small size and late industrialization, Singapore has managed to capture a significant share of the global information economy over the last three decades. This paper analyzed the structure and growth dynamics of Singapore’s information industries using an analytical framework that integrates the four key components of an information economy: IT goods industry, content industry, netw...