Download or read book Technology and Firm Performance in Mexico written by Gladys Lopez Acevedo and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Technology and Firm Performance in Mexico written by Gladys L??pez-Acevedo and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author investigates the relationship between a firm's adoption of new manufacturing technology and its performance. A panel database that identifies technological adoption and tracks firms over time allows the use of different measures of firm performance-wages, productivity, net employment growth, job creation, and job destruction. Results show that technology is associated with high firm performance in all these metrics. The effect of new technology on performance is larger for firms located in the north and in Mexico City. This marginal value significantly increased after the 1994 crisis and the North American Free Trade Agreement. Furthermore, technology increased the wage of semi-skilled workers compared with unskilled workers by about 11 percent over seven years.
Download or read book Technology and Firm Performance in Mexico written by Gladys Lopez Acevedo and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2002 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Technology Transfer and the Comparative Performance of Business Enterprises written by Rafael Roberto Rubio and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mexico written by Weltbank and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The report examines two components of new technology adoption by Mexican manufacturing firms. First, it questions which firms, under what circumstances, and performance adopt such technology. To measure performance, productivity wages, and net employment of a firm were used, leading to further questions on whether technological change helps workers - of a certain skill level - disproportionately. Second, it argues that adoption of new technologies happens under the right circumstances, and further reviews which are the firms, and circumstances surrounding the choice of technology. The analysis is based on data from the National Survey of Employment, Wages, Technology and Training (ENESTYC), and the National Industrial Survey (EIA) for 1992, 1995, and 1999. Results largely suggest that performance (including statistics, and measures on job creation, and/or job dislocation), is superior with technology adoption, though it does not imply performance increases in all firms. Rather, the effects of technology vary depending on location, and size of enterprise. Nonetheless, investments in human capital - training in conjunction with technology adoption - increases productivity benefits. In addition, the likelihood for new technologies, also varies markedly by time period, and, the complexity of the technology correlates both with the size, and skill levels of a firm's work force. Policy recommendations include widespread technology know-how, facilitating inter-firm linkages, supported by both government financing to encourage a competitive business environment, and by a continued increase in research and development funding, public as well as private funding.
Download or read book Mexico written by Weltbank and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The report examines two components of new technology adoption by Mexican manufacturing firms. First, it questions which firms, under what circumstances, and performance adopt such technology. To measure performance, productivity wages, and net employment of a firm were used, leading to further questions on whether technological change helps workers - of a certain skill level - disproportionately. Second, it argues that adoption of new technologies happens under the right circumstances, and further reviews which are the firms, and circumstances surrounding the choice of technology. The analysis is based on data from the National Survey of Employment, Wages, Technology and Training (ENESTYC), and the National Industrial Survey (EIA) for 1992, 1995, and 1999. Results largely suggest that performance (including statistics, and measures on job creation, and/or job dislocation), is superior with technology adoption, though it does not imply performance increases in all firms. Rather, the effects of technology vary depending on location, and size of enterprise. Nonetheless, investments in human capital - training in conjunction with technology adoption - increases productivity benefits. In addition, the likelihood for new technologies, also varies markedly by time period, and, the complexity of the technology correlates both with the size, and skill levels of a firm's work force. Policy recommendations include widespread technology know-how, facilitating inter-firm linkages, supported by both government financing to encourage a competitive business environment, and by a continued increase in research and development funding, public as well as private funding.
Download or read book Technology and Competitiveness in Mexico written by Thomas J. Botzman and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology and Competitiveness in Mexico examines Mexico's efforts to transform from Third Word to First World economic status as international trade agreements are signed, and many closed economies open. Thomas J. Botzman explores this process by consolidating scholarly literature on Mexican technological development, including that published since the foreign reserve crisis and the subsequent devaluation of the peso in 1994. He discusses the technology transfer practices and industrial transformation as routes to international competitiveness in the manufacturing sector, an accepted key to economic growth and development, while highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of industrial development in Mexico. Botzman seeks to provide a benchmark for the study of modern technology development and competitiveness of Mexican industry through a greater understanding of the cooperative linkages that need to be formed between academia, government, and private industry using case studies of the automobile, textile, chemical, and steel industries.
Download or read book Mexico s Transition to a Knowledge based Economy written by Yevgeny N. Kuznetsov and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowledge and its application are now widely recognized to be key sources of growth in the global economy. Putting knowledge to work allows countries to improve everyday life for their people, opening up new possibilities for small and medium-size enterprises and other less-developed economic groups. This volume examines the challenges and opportunties for Mexicos knowledge-based economy, offering strategies for making major improvements in the countrys capacity to generate knowledge and transform it into wealth.
Download or read book Relationship Between Changes in Regulation Corporate Governance and Firm Performance Mexico s Case written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relationship between changes in regulation corporate governance and firm performance: Mexico's case.
Download or read book Industrial Restructuring in Mexico written by María de los Angeles Pozas and published by University of California, San Diego, Center for U.S.-Mexicanstudies. This book was released on 1993 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Developing Innovation Systems written by Mario Cimoli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexico provides a case study of a cornerstone economy in the development of the hemospheric free trade zone in the Americas, an adjusting economy which has been integrated into uneven economies (Canada and the US). This volume examines the Mexican economy and its attempt to develop an innovation system, providing an example of the dynamics that are of concern to evolutionary economists.
Download or read book Relationship Between Changes in Regulation Corporate Governance and Firm Performance written by Heriberto García Núñez and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Politics of Technology Transfer in Mexico written by Van R. Whiting and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Technology and the Search for Progress in Modern Mexico written by Edward Beatty and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fletcher Jones Foundation humanities imprint"--Preliminary page.
Download or read book Technology Transfer and Industrial Policy written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation assesses the Mexican government policy in computers during a ten year period (1981-1991). The Mexican computer industry was created by a strategic industrial programme which provided a package of conditions that attracted domestic and international capital during this period. The main policy instruments used initially were the market reserve and import permits. The programme was known in Spanish as 'Programa de Fomento Para la Manufactura de Equipo de C6mputo, Sus Principales M6dulos y Perifericos' or the PF Policy. The analysis follows policy and industry performance developments (from the birth of the PF policy to its successor the 'Programa Para la Modernizaci6n de la Industria de Computo' or PMIC). This perspective on the policy issues raised by the programme is based mainly on the views of firms and interest groups perspective. The analysis is based upon a four dimensional framework developed by the author and based upon a synthesis of theories of technological learning, technology transfer and firms strategic behaviour. This is used to explore the impact of the PF Policy at the firm and industry levels as well as to investigate the performance of government agencies and the impact of the policy on users (diffusion) and social applications. This dissertation explores the PF Policy as the first programme that in rejecting the import substitution industrialisation (lSI) model Mexico had followed for several decades, embraced export oriented industrialisation (EOI). This analysis explores the changes in the regulatory environment which accompanied the transition from lSI to EOI and considers how this shift impacted upon the performance of firms and the computer industry. The transition to EOI resulted in greater production efficiencies, higher quality and cheaper prices but these benefits are shown to have accrued to large volume producing firms (a few domestic and multinational computer firms). With regard to export generation, only the multinational computer firms have shown significant growth rates. The emphasis on export generation, the shift to EOI and rapid liberalisation of consumer and component electronics had a negative impact on the generation of productive linkages within the Information Technology Complex, e.g. the development of a horizontal layer of component producers. During this period of transition from lSI to EOI there were conflicting objectives within the policy environment. For example, policies were implemented to liberalise trade as part of commitments to GATT and policies were introduced to strengthen industrial development in the electronics sector for domestic consumption. The major failure of the PF policy in relation to its initial objectives occurred in relation to technological development. This is illustrated by the limited innovations that occurred over the ten year period among domestic firms producing microcomputers and peripherals. Despite this failure, there is evidence that technological learning occurred 'against all odds'.
Download or read book Competition Makes it Better written by Leo Iacovone and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper uses a unique firm-level data set for Mexico, with information never used for research before, to assess how use of information technology (IT henceforth) influences firm performance. Further, the paper explores if, in the context of increasing competition from China, this effect is different for firms more strongly affected by competition where incentives for upgrading and innovation may be more intense. In this perspective, the paper analyzes the complementarity between IT and other changes spurred by competition, taking advantage of the exogenous shock generated by Chinese competition. The results indicate that IT use has higher effects over productivity in the case of firms facing higher competition from China, in the domestic market and in the U.S. market. Furthermore, the paper shows how these changes appear to be driven by complementary investments in innovation and organizational changes.
Download or read book Closing the Gap in Education and Technology written by David M. De Ferranti and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fundamental elements to unlocking the potential of technology to speed up economic growth in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are investing in education, opening up new technologies through foreign trade and investment, and encouraging private sector research and development. 'Closing the Gap in Education and Technology' advises Latin American and Caribbean governments to address the region's deficits in skills and technology, and thereby boost productivity, ultimately improving growth prospects. To close this 'productivity gap' in the region, the report calls for a range of policy approaches and strategies, depending on a country's level of development. It identifies three progressive stages in a country's technological evolution -- adoption, adaptation, and creation -- and observes that policies should be designed to address the particular challenges that accompany each stage.In conclusion, 'Closing the Gap in Education and Technology' argues that many countries in the Latin American and Caribbean region have been improving education and social risk management systems so that they are now ready to benefit from the rewards associated with creating stronger trade and technology ties with countries that are more technologically advanced.
