Regional related variety and companies' productivity in Brazil

There is a discussion in the literature about the benefits that the regional diversity can result in the companies' productivity due to knowledge recombination, which allows greater opportunities to imitate, share and recombine ideas. However, few studies have been conducted in developing economies. This study aims to analyze the effects of the regional related variety (an indicator that captures the complementarity between sectors) on the companies' productivity. Also, we intend to verify whether the absorptive capacity is a significant moderator in this process and its thresholds. For the empirical study, a database containing data on 80 Brazilian municipalities and 194 companies was used, with data between 2010 and 2014. By calculating the related variety indicator to measure regional diversity and threshold regressions to measure absorptive capacity, this research contributes to the literature, given that empirical studies on this subject in Brazil are still limited. Besides, as the country has a diversified economy, we believe in recombination as an option for economic growth. The results indicate that the related variety has no significant effect on productivity when analyzed alone, but when moderated by the absorptive capacity it has a positive effect.Não recebi financiamentoHá uma discussão na literatura sobre os benefícios que a diversidade regional pode resultar na produtividade das empresas devido à recombinação do conhecimento, que permite maiores oportunidades de imitar, compartilhar e recombinar ideias. No entanto, poucos estudos foram realizados em economias em desenvolvimento. Este estudo tem como objetivo analisar os efeitos da variedade relacionada da região (indicador que capta a complementaridade entre setores) na produtividade das empresas. Além disso, pretendemos verificar se a capacidade de absorção é um moderador significativo neste processo e quais são seus limiares. Para o estudo empírico, uma base de dados contendo dados sobre 80 municípios brasileiros foi utilizada, com dados entre 2010 e 2014. Ao calcular o indicador de variedade relacionada para calcular a diversidade regional e regressões por limiar para medir a capacidade de absorção, esta pesquisa contribui com a literatura, dado que estudos empíricos sobre esse assunto no Brasil ainda são limitados. Além disso, como o país possui uma economia diversificada, acreditamos na recombinação como opção de crescimento econômico. Os resultados indicam que a variedade relacionada não tem efeito significativo na produtividade quando analisada isoladamente, mas quando moderada pela capacidade de absorção possui efeito positivo

Yi-Ping Ong, The Art of Being: Poetics of the Novel and Existentialists Philosophy

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On the asymptotic behaviour of the characteristics in the codiffusion of radioactive isotopes with general initial data

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Polymer Crystallization Waves

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On a multidimensional model for the codiffusion of isotopes: localization and asymptotic behavior

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On a Quasilinear Parabolic System Modelling the Diffusion of Radioactive Isotopes

We consider a model for the diffusion of N species of isotopes of the same element in a medium, consisting in a parabolic quasilinear system, with Dirichlet boundary condition, in the general hypothesis that the diffusion coefficients possibly are all different. We prove existence and uniqueness of classical solution in the physically relevant assumption that the total concentration of the element is positive and bounded

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Massimiliano Tortora – Annalisa Volpone (eds.), Borders of Modernism

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Raffaella Colombo – Federico Francucci – Matteo Quinti (eds.), Mimesis» 1946-2016. Atti delle Giornate di Studio su Erich Auerbach

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