Accruals in High Tech Industries

Les sociétés de haute technologie européennes, de par leurs caractéristiques (dépenses en actifs immatériels, croissance, innovation...) sont amenées à publier des régularisations comptables. Ceci peut affecter la persistance de leurs résultats. Néanmoins, notre étude indique qu'au global, les résultats des entreprises de haute technologie ne sont pas moins persistants.haute technologie, persistance du résultat, régularisations comptables

Silicon Valley: Labor\u27s High-Tech Stumping

[Excerpt] Nestled 50 miles south of San Francisco, Silicon Valley has been touted as the model for the future of industrial and corporate America. More important, it could serve as a blueprint for deploying the power of labor\u27s political action — and doing it right

The Dynamics of Economic Policy and Regional Specialization: Evidence from China¡¯s High-tech Industry

Abstract: This paper investigates the effects of economic policy on regional specialization of China¡¯s high-tech industries for the period 1996 to 2005. Results indicate that the average level of regional specialization increases over years. Moreover, high-tech industry sector is highly localized in coastal regions. Using a dynamic panel data approach, we find that the implementation of high technology oriented export policy and subsidies for science and high technology activities encourage regional specialization, whereas local government¡¯s protections for local high-tech enterprises impede it. The empirical study also confirms the important role of high-skilled labor in determining regional specialization. Keywords: economic policy; specialization; high-tech industry; dynamics

The impacts of academic and industry research on high-tech manufacturing: Evidence from supercomputer usage

It is widely accepted that research in the high-tech sector is considered a key to maintain advanced economies’ competitiveness at the face of their emerging counterparts’ rising technological sophistication. Yet, the impact of research on high-tech output has never been quantified. In this paper, we empirically examine the impact of frontier research on high-tech manufacturing production. Standard R&D expenditure measure is found to be too general to capture the input in frontier research. To overcome this problem, we propose a novel proxy for frontier research investment – the supercomputing capacity. Empirical evidence strongly supports this choice of variable. We also find that academic research exerts a larger growth effect on high-tech manufacturing output than its industrial counterpart.

The revealed preferences of high technology acquirers: an analysis of the characteristics of their targets

In this paper we investigate the motives of high-tech acquieres by analysing their revealed preferences in terms of the high-tech companies they acquire.mergers and acquisitions, acquisition likelihood, R&D patents

Incorporated citizens: multinational high-tech companies and the BoP

In this article, I examine HP’s e-Inclusion program and its implementation in India to show how the high-tech industry’s efforts to alleviate poverty profitably are guided by C. K. Prahalad’s ideas about the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP), and are framed as digital corporate citizenship activities. While the BoP highlights the importance of new markets for high-tech companies, the discourse of digital corporate citizenship creates an enabling environment in which transnational high-tech companies can gain political access to new consumers at the BoP. The resulting digital corporate citizenship/BoP nexus leads to the extension of governments’ bureaucratic reach and the formation of electronic entrepreneurs

Smart Specialization of Workforce Structure in the European Union Countries – Dynamic Analysis Applying Shift-Share Analysis Method

The performed research also allowed for the identification different kinds of workforce structure characterized by smart specialization (significant share of workforce in high-tech manufacturing sector or high-tech services sector) and the assessment of generated structural and competitive effects.Przeprowadzone badania pozwoliły na identyfikację różnych rodzajów struktur pracujących cechujących się inteligentną specjalizacją (znaczący udział pracujących w sektorze przemysłu wysokiej techniki lub usług opartych na wiedzy) oraz ocenić generowane przez nie efekty strukturalne i konkurencyjne

Growing Pennsylvania's High-Tech Economy: Choosing Effective Investments

Compares Pennsylvania's high-tech economic development incentives, programs, and taxes with those of six competitor states. Includes case studies, program summaries, and analyses using a proprietary model and database. Makes policy recommendations

High Tech Professionals Are Hard to Organize Too

[Excerpt] It is unlikely that any technical and professional employees will be organized in non-union high tech firms until more blue-collar production workers become union members. There are, however, some high technology companies which already have heavily unionized blue-collar workforces. Two industrial unions have recently tried to recruit new members among the engineering and computer personnel at such firms. The experiences of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) at AT&T Technologies and the International Union of Electronic, Electrical, Technical, Salaried, & Machine Workers (IUE) at Raytheon indicate that the obstacles facing unions in this type of high tech organizing are formidable