Copenhagen Business School

About: Copenhagen Business School is a education organization based out in Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Corporate governance & Context (language use). The organization has 2194 authors who have published 9649 publications receiving 341898 citations.

Does specialization matter for growth

Abstract: The question concerning the extent to which the growth performance of an economy is determined by its external relations is a controversial one. Elements from various theoretical approaches are combined into a framework that stresses the importance of specialization for economic growth. Applied is a data set on growth and trade in 11 manufacturing sectors, for the period 1965-1988, for the OECD area. The main novelty in the database is the assignment of 75 products in the trade data to the 11 industrial sectors. The relationship between growth and specialization has been tested by running a regression with the sectoral growth of value added as the dependent variable, and several variables, including some measuring specialization as well as other factors, as the independent variables. The regression results presented seem to indicate that specialization does indeed matter for economic growth. However, this impact seems to be gradually wearing off during the 1980s, as is the case for other factors included in the regression analysis.

From the Editors: Can I Trust Your Findings? Ruling Out Alternative Explanations in International Business Research

Abstract: The complex nature of international business research, with its cross-country and multilevel nature, complicates the empirical identification of relationships among theoretical constructs. The objective of this editorial is to provide guidance to help international business scholars navigate this complexity and ensure that readers can trust their findings. We provide suggestions for how to rule out alternative explanations, explaining key considerations not only in empirical analyses, but also in theory building and in research design. Our discussion covers both qualitative and quantitative studies, because we believe that it is imperative to understand how trustworthiness is established in both traditions, even for international business researchers who self-identify with only one. This enables scholars to have a broader scope of knowledge when interpreting past research in the field and to be more adept at explaining their design choices to a diverse audience.

A Semantic Analysis of the English Genitive.: Interaction of Lexical and Formal Semantics

Abstract: Some earlier treatments of the semantics of the prenominal genitive assume two syntactic types for genitive NPs like the girl's, one which combines with relational nouns like sister, and another that combines with non-relational nouns like car. In the former case the genitive relation is provided by the relational head noun, in the latter the source of the relation is taken to be provided by the utterance context. Our analysis uniformly assumes only one syntactic type for genitive NPs, viz., one that forces a genitive NP to combine only with relational nouns. In cases with inherently non-relational head nouns, such as the girl's car, we hypothesize that the genitive NP coerces a shift of the meaning of the head noun so that it becomes relational. To determine the sort of meaning shift which is carried out, we appeal to the qualia structure of the lexical entry for the head noun. A consequence of this analysis is an extension of the area of lexically determined interpretations and a corresponding reduction of the context-determined, pragmatic area.