nÃo hà / The privatization of the telecommunications sector in Brazil, caused structural changes in the market, going from state monopoly to a nearby structure of competitive markets. To prove this notion of evolution, were calculated for the mobile industry, some indices of industrial concentration, namely: market share, concentration ratios (CR), Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HH) and Theil entropy index (ET) by the number of cell phones by operators (inThousands) in the period 2000 to 2010, with all these measures confirming the decentralization of the mobile market in the last decade. / A privatizaÃÃo do setor de telecomunicaÃÃes, no Brasil, provocou mudanÃas estruturais nesse mercado, que passou de monopÃlio estatal a uma estrutura prÃxima de mercados competitivos. A fim de comprovar essa noÃÃo de desconcentraÃÃo, calcularam-se, para o setor de telefonia mÃvel, algumas medidas de concentraÃÃo industrial, quais sejam: Market Share, RazÃes de ConcentraÃÃo (CR), Ãndice de Hirschman-Herfindahl (HH) e Ãndice de Theil (ET), atravÃs do nÃmero de celulares por operadoras (em Milhares), no perÃodo de 2000 a 2010, com todas essas medidas confirmando a desconcentraÃÃo do mercado de telefonia mÃvel na Ãltima dÃcada.

Jiao, Lin. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 44-48). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.2 / 摘要 --- p.3 / Chapter 1. --- Introduction --- p.6 / Chapter 2. --- Theoretical Background --- p.12 / Chapter 3. --- Data --- p.15 / Chapter 4. --- Measuring Geographic Concentration/Specialization --- p.16 / Chapter 4.1 --- Various Measurements --- p.16 / Chapter 4.2 --- Geographic Concentration of Industries in China --- p.19 / Chapter 5. --- Geographic Concentration and Firm Size --- p.21 / Chapter 5.1 --- Approach of Holmes and Stevens (2002) --- p.22 / Chapter 5.2 --- Case in China --- p.24 / Chapter 5.3 --- An Alternative Approach --- p.26 / Chapter 6. --- Across Industries and Ownerships --- p.28 / Chapter 6.1 --- Across Industries --- p.28 / Chapter 6.2 --- Across Ownerships --- p.31 / Chapter 7. --- Conclusion --- p.42 / References --- p.44 / Appendix --- p.58

University of Macau / Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities / Department of Government and Public Administration

This research evaluates the change observed during the implementation of an outsourced application development within a large defence organisation in Europe. Whereas most extant research focuses on the firm level or dyadic relations this research aims to uncover how different outcomes can be explained by attending to the micro-processes and specific mechanisms of work between purposive actors as they create the new service. The research was a longitudinal, six-year in-depth participant observation focused on the implementation of an HRM application carried out by six case organisations within a consortium formed to implement the service. The results of the field study are based on a grounded analysis from semi-structured interviews, focus groups, documents, and over 5,000 email communications involving a total of 62 stakeholders. A conceptual framework of neo-institutional theory, practice and power was used to analyse the process of change as the consortium worked together to deliver the outsourcing. The findings showed that political goals and behaviour influenced and shaped the outsourcing implementation and exposed the systemic nature of conflict within a constrained project context. The high conflict observed was shown to negatively influence success and supports the notion that strong contracting is only effective in stable contexts. It was also shown that tight control can negatively impact collaboration, by reducing adaptability, forcing vendors to take an inflexible posture. This type of behaviour was observed to increase power and conflict within the project and buyers reacted by increasing control and applying sanctions. This resulting in increased conflict and was a form of feedback loop. The findings also showed control in general is ineffective and can be overwhelmed in situations where there is high demand uncertainty. These observations add to the outsourcing and power/political literature by showing the central role of power and conflict and suggests the final configuration of an outsourcing is a negotiated order that may be at variance to the original objectives. Implications for practice: From a practical perspective, managers should think carefully before rushing into tight preventative contracts and consider the complexity of the demanded service and degree of completeness in their requirements. High uncertainty can lead to outsourcing failure, conflict within the implementation, and unmet expectations, unless specific mechanisms are in place to mitigate this. Furthermore, embedding new work processes and procedures to manage the service within the buying organisation is fundamental to how outsourcing actually works. Buyers and suppliers must pay attention to the design and implementation of processes and routines to manage effective delivery of the outsourced service.

To make the most of emergent techno-economic innovations, countries around the world must constantly upgrade their physical infrastructure and infrastructure systems – more than ever now that the world is facing growing environmental constraints. Public policies that foster the transformation of established infrastructure sectors, and encourage the development of new ones, can help to speed up and direct these structural changes. But to be effective, these policies must take into account how the process of development of new sectors varies among different infrastructure sectors, how it varies with respect to other kinds of sector, and how it varies in different institutional contexts. In this work, I show how three new infrastructure sectors developed in Chile, a ‘Hierarchical Market Economy' characterised by the dominance of diversified business groups and subsidiaries of multinational enterprises, a segmented labour market, and a low-skills equilibrium. These three sectors are the ones that first started to build wind farms, solar PV systems, and anaerobic digesters in the country, and in the study I characterize three aspects of their development process: a) the economic changes that turned these new (to the country) kinds of infrastructure facilities into attractive entrepreneurial opportunities; b) the economic agents that discovered these opportunities and developed them into viable investment projects, and those that sponsored and procured finance to build these projects; and c) the means by which these economic agents became capable of undertaking the relatively novel activities that their entrepreneurial initiative demanded. The resulting rich description of new sectoral development processes in Hierarchical Market Economies helps to understand what makes these processes vary inter-sectorally, cross-sectorally, and cross-nationally.

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My thesis studies the changing competitive structure of the Canadian auditing industry during the period 1987 to 1992. Two mergers took place over this period amond four large Canadian accounting firms. I assess whether market power is likely to become a problem with already high, and possibly increasing levels of concentration in the audit industry. Using data from several sources, I examine those characteristics that affect the likelihood that high concentration facilitates market power. I then apply the official standards (Merger Guidelines) for Canadian merger analysis to data on audit services. Because the Merger Guidelines expressly do not permit the authorities to oppose a merger merely on structural grounds, I supplement my structural analysis with a review of studies which examine whether audit fees are influenced upward by high concentration. Overall, I found the industry more competitive in the post merger period. / xii, 149 leaves : ill. ; 28 cm.

Thesis (M. S.)--Economics, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006. / Haizheng Li, Committee Chair ; Patrick McCarthy, Committee Member ; Vivek Ghosal, Committee Member. Includes bibliographical references.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-08T14:44:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Arquivototal.pdf: 1070265 bytes, checksum: 41d67c357b7266afb5172394d3c6dfd2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-09-28 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This study aims to characterize the levels and patterns of concentration of industrial activity in the state of Rio Grande do Norte in the period between 2000 and 2010. For this there will be the calculation of the indices of spatial correlation Global Moran's I and local (LISA) defined by Anselin (1995) between the territorial subdivisions of the state - microregions. It was identified that the state only has clusters of positive spatial correlation in the manufacturing industry and the sectors of capital, labor and natural resource intensive. It was also observed that the resource sector is less concentrated in both years considered polar and that all sectors have experienced decentralization of industrial activities except for the labor-intensive sector, which takes the place of more concentrated industry in 2010, this place occupied by the capital-intensive sector in 2000. In the estimation of the model say that the influence of the variables defined in the theory of growth was observed that the small amount of micro state not allowed to obtain a model very consistent. This suggested the estimation of models considering the variables individually, allowing better understand the influence that the wages paid to the worker, the average size of establishments, the distances of the micro and the capital share in manufacturing employment that each state has in the micro affect growth of such participation, indicating the agglomeration tendencies. The results are consistent with the arguments presented in the New Economic Geography and the empirical studies that have been done to test them. / O presente trabalho busca caracterizar os níveis e padrões de concentração da atividade industrial no estado do Rio Grande do Norte no período compreendido entre os anos 2000 e o ano 2010. Para isso será realizado o cálculo dos índices de correlação espacial I de Moran Global e local (LISA) definidos por Anselin (1995) entre as subdivisões territoriais do estado microrregiões. Foi identificado que o estado só apresenta aglomerados de correlação espacial positiva na indústria de transformação e nos setores de capital, trabalho e recursos naturais intensivos. Também foi observado que o setor de recursos naturais é o menos concentrado em ambos os anos polares considerados e que todos os setores sofreram desconcentração das atividades industriais com exceção do setor de trabalho intensivo, que ocupa o lugar de setor mais concentrado em 2010, lugar esse ocupado pelo setor de capital intensivo no ano 2000. Na estimação do modelo que descreve a influência das variáveis definidas na teoria sobre o crescimento foi observado que a quantidade pequena de microrregiões do estado não permitiu a obtenção de um modelo muito consistente. Isso sugeriu a estimação de modelos considerando as variáveis individualmente, o que permitiu entender melhor a influência que o salário pago ao trabalhador, o tamanho médio dos estabelecimentos, a distâncias das microrregiões à capital e a participação no emprego industrial que cada microrregião tem no estado afetam o crescimento dessa participação, indicando tendências à aglomeração. Os resultados são coerentes com os argumentos apresentados na Nova Geografia Econômica e com os trabalhos empíricos que vêm sendo feitos para testá-los.

Submitted by Fabio Sobreira Campos da Costa (fabio.sobreira@ufpe.br) on 2016-09-16T15:30:46Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) NOVAS EVIDÊNCIAS DA DISTRIBUIÇÃO ESPACIAL DAS INDÚSTRIAS NO .pdf: 1468981 bytes, checksum: def3edbec1ba14e726b735dbe57ee3b3 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-09-16T15:30:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) NOVAS EVIDÊNCIAS DA DISTRIBUIÇÃO ESPACIAL DAS INDÚSTRIAS NO .pdf: 1468981 bytes, checksum: def3edbec1ba14e726b735dbe57ee3b3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-29 / CAPES / A recente dinâmica de crescimento econômico, observado na década de 2000, ocasionou profundas mudanças na estrutura econômica, e consequentemente na composição do emprego e na distribuição das empresas na região Nordeste, pertencentes à indústria de transformação. Desta forma, este estudo se propôs a realizar uma análise do padrão de distribuição locacional da indústria de transformação no Nordeste mediante a utilização da metodologia desenvolvida por Ellison e Glaeser (1994), para o período correspondente aos anos de 2005 e 2010, observando-se a evolução e as peculiaridades deste processo nesta região. A base de dados utilizada foram os microdados do Relatório Anual de Informações Sociais (RAIS) do Ministério do Trabalho e Emprego (MTE), ao nível da firma. Os resultados observados no estudo consistem em uma significativa desconcentração média da indústria de transformação durante o período, verificando-se também que este resultado foi condicionado à migração ou instalação de novas plantas industriais de maior porte para localidades que apresentaram um desenvolvimento recente na região. Apesar disso, foi observado que quatro dos nove estados da federação pertencentes à região exibiram resultados para o índice que indicam a continuidade da concentração industrial nos mesmos. Por fim, verificou-se duas tendências distintas quando a análise do referido índice é realizada por nível de intensidade tecnológica dos setores da indústria de transformação, ou seja, os setores classificados como de baixa e média intensidade tecnológica tenderam a se desconcentrar no período, enquanto aqueles classificados como de média-alta e alta intensidade tecnológica permaneceram mais concentrados. / The recent momentum of economic growth, noted in late 2000, brought about profound changes in the economic structure, and consequently in the composition of employment and distribution companies in the northeastern region, belonging to the processing industry. Thus, this study proposed to conduct an examination of the locational distribution pattern of the manufacturing industry in the Northeast using the methodology developed by Ellison and Glaeser (1994), for the period corresponding to the years 2005 and 2010, observing the evolution and the peculiarities of this process in this region. The database used was the micro-data of the Annual Report of Social Information (RAIS) of the Ministry of Labor and Employment (MTE), at the level of the firm. The results observed in the study consist of a significant devolution of average manufacturing industry during the period, noting that this result was conditioned to migration or installation of new larger industrial plants for locales that presented a recent development in the region. Nevertheless, it was observed that four of the nine States of the Federation belonging to the region exhibited results to the index that indicates the continuity of industrial concentration. Finally, there has been two distinct trends when the analysis of that index is held by technological intensity level of the sectors of the processing industry, i.e. the sectors classed as medium and low technological intensity tended to Psych in the period, while those classified as of medium-high and high technological intensity remained focused.