Download or read book Are Canadian controlled Manufacturing Firms Less Productive Than Their Foreign controlled Counterparts written by Ponugoti Someshwar Rao and published by Industrie Canada. This book was released on 2000 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the multi-factor productivity gap between Canadian- and foreign-controlled manufacturing companies. The paper examines firm-level data to attempt to answer the following important research questions: whether foreign-controlled manufacturing firms are more (or less) productive than Canadian-controlled firms; whether the productivity gap widened or narrowed in the 1990s; and the factors that explain or do not explain the difference in productivity performance. Factors examined include labour quality, degree of unionization, and firm size.
Download or read book Industrial Organization in Canada written by Zhiqi Chen and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Industrial policy is a vital and important field that contributes to decisions about public policy and business and is directly responsible for promoting growth and increasing competitiveness in local and global economies. Examining the most significant industrial policy issues in Canada, Industrial Organization in Canada presents contributions from the top Canadian researchers in this field, who survey both new directions in the field and areas that have been neglected but remain important. Using state-of-the-art empirical techniques, contributors address the policy challenges raised by globalization, the internet and other technological advances, innovation, and the rise of security measures in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Chapters are organized around five themes: recent developments and policy challenges, Canadian firms in the information age, research and development and innovation, regulation and industrial performance, and securing trade and investment opportunities. The only substantive research volume on this subject in two decades, Industrial Organization in Canada is a welcome resource for policy makers, researchers, and academics concerned with industrial policy issues in contemporary Canada.
Download or read book Making It Big written by Andrea Ciani and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic and social progress requires a diverse ecosystem of firms that play complementary roles. Making It Big: Why Developing Countries Need More Large Firms constitutes one of the most up-to-date assessments of how large firms are created in low- and middle-income countries and their role in development. It argues that large firms advance a range of development objectives in ways that other firms do not: large firms are more likely to innovate, export, and offer training and are more likely to adopt international standards of quality, among other contributions. Their particularities are closely associated with productivity advantages and translate into improved outcomes not only for their owners but also for their workers and for smaller enterprises in their value chains. The challenge for economic development, however, is that production does not reach economic scale in low- and middle-income countries. Why are large firms scarcer in developing countries? Drawing on a rare set of data from public and private sources, as well as proprietary data from the International Finance Corporation and case studies, this book shows that large firms are often born large—or with the attributes of largeness. In other words, what is distinct about them is often in place from day one of their operations. To fill the “missing top†? of the firm-size distribution with additional large firms, governments should support the creation of such firms by opening markets to greater competition. In low-income countries, this objective can be achieved through simple policy reorientation, such as breaking oligopolies, removing unnecessary restrictions to international trade and investment, and establishing strong rules to prevent the abuse of market power. Governments should also strive to ensure that private actors have the skills, technology, intelligence, infrastructure, and finance they need to create large ventures. Additionally, they should actively work to spread the benefits from production at scale across the largest possible number of market participants. This book seeks to bring frontier thinking and evidence on the role and origins of large firms to a wide range of readers, including academics, development practitioners and policy makers.
Download or read book Canadian Manufactured Exports written by Donald James Daly and published by IRPP. This book was released on 1986 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides important empirical background to the continuing debate on Canadian industrial policy and trade. The analysis is based on primary data derived from a unique survey of individual firms, both Canadian and foreign-owned, conducted early in the 1981-1982 recession. The main purpose of the study is to assess whether recent changes in tariffs, exchange rates, wage rates, and other factors in Canada and the world economy suggest the need for any significant modification in the earlier analyses and conclusions. The study presents prior evidence on costs, specialization, and trade; assesses current costs and productivity, and presents new information on how increased exports and specialization would affect cost performance and international competitiveness; examines non-production costs and other non-cost influences on specialization and export performance; and suggests strategies for the private sector to consider in order to survive in the changing trade environment of the 1980s.
Download or read book Asleep at the Switch written by Bruce Smardon and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1960, Canadian industry has lagged behind other advanced capitalist economies in its level of commitment to research and development. Asleep at the Switch explains the reasons for this underperformance, despite a series of federal measures to spur technological innovation in Canada. Bruce Smardon argues that the underlying issue in Canada's longstanding failure to innovate is structural, and can be traced to the rapid diffusion of American Fordist practices into the manufacturing sector of the early twentieth century. Under the influence of Fordism, Canadian industry came to depend heavily on outside sources of new technology, particularly from the United States. Though this initially brought in substantial foreign capital and led to rapid economic development, the resulting branch-plant industrial structure led to the prioritization of business interests over transformative and innovative industrial strategies. This situation was exacerbated in the early 1960s by the Glassco framework, which assumed that the best way for the federal state to foster domestic technological capacity was to fund private sector research and collaborative strategies with private capital. Remarkably, and with few results, federal programs and measures continued to emphasize a market-oriented approach. Asleep at the Switch details the ongoing attempts by the federal government to increase the level of innovation in Canadian industry, but shows why these efforts have failed to alter the pattern of technological dependency.
Download or read book Governance Multinationals and Growth written by Lorraine Eden and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contiene: Foreword by Peter J. Buckley Part I: Introduction. - Part II: Corporate Governance, Multinationals and Growth. - Part III: Free Trade, Multinationals and Growth. - Part IV: Public Governance, Multinationals and Growth. - Part V: Conclusions.
Download or read book OECD Economic Surveys Canada 2001 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2001-09-06 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2001 edition of OECD's periodic survey of Canada's economy examines recent economic developments, policies and prospects and include a special feature on improving public spending outcomes.
Download or read book OECD Economic Surveys Canada 2012 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-13 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OECD's 2012 survey of the Canadian economy examines recent economic developments, policies and prospects, and takes a special look at business innovation and tertiary education.
Download or read book Discussion Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book OECD Economic Surveys Canada 2003 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2003 edition of OECD's periodic survey of Canada's economy focuses on key challenges including raising living standards, international migration, and managing fiscal pressures in the medium and long-term.
Download or read book Canadian Foreign Investment Screening Procedures and the Role of Foreign Investment in the Canadian Economy written by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Inter-American Economic Relationships and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book OECD Economic Surveys Canada 2008 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2008-06-11 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OECD's periodic survey of Canada's economy. After two chapters assessing the current economic situation and policy responses to new terms of trade, ageing, and climate change, additional articles are presented on tax reform, long-term sustainability ...
Download or read book Canada Among Nations 1990 91 written by Fen Osler Hampson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1991-05-15 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the seventh volume on Canada in international affairs produced by The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University .As in the past, the book is organized around the most recent calendar year and contains an analysis and assessment of Canadian foreign policies as well as the environment that constrains and shapes them. Our intention is to contribute to the continuing debate about appropriate policy choices for Canada.
Download or read book Analyse de Politiques written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ivoirien Capitalism written by John Rapley and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though studies of capitalism in Africa traditionally focus on the activities of foreign investment, in Cote d'Ivoire capitalist development has been largely the work of a domestic class of entrepreneurs.
Download or read book Foreign Ownership of Canadian Industry written by A.E. Safarian and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreign ownership is an ongoing national policy issue for Canadians, and a matter of utmost concern in the public mind. Recently, the issue has been hotly debated in sectors as diverse as telecommunications, mining, technology, retail, steel, and aerospace. Foreign Ownership of Canadian Industry, A.E. Safarian's classic investigation into the behaviour of branch-plant firms in Canada, has proven an enduring and important analysis of this national policy problem and is now back in print. This third edition of Foreign Ownership of Canadian Industry features a new preface contextualizing Safarian's influential work against contemporary economic issues and policies. As the question of foreign takeovers becomes increasingly critical not only in Canada but in other countries as well, Safarian emphasizes the continuity of concerns over who owns a country's industries.
Download or read book Trade Among Multinationals RLE International Business written by Donald C MacCharles and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-04 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1980s many developed countries were increasingly tempted to improve their national competitiveness by adopting protectionist policies. This book demonstrates that such policies would be mistaken and do serious damage to industries in the countries concerned. This book, based on extensive original research provides important empirical evidence concerning the proportion of all trade which is intra-industry trade; concerning the key role of multinationals in the growth of intra-industry trade and concerning the contrasting response – particularly between those companies which are multinational parents and those which are multinational subsidiaries – to the changing competitive conditions.
