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Economic sector

About: Economic sector is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 14917 publications have been published within this topic receiving 250274 citations. The topic is also known as: sector.


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TL;DR: In this paper, three approaches to innovation in the public sector in the post war period are identified and analysed for their implications for policy-makers, managers and citizens, and various relationships are identified between innovation and improvement in public services.
Abstract: Three approaches to innovation in the public sector in the post war period are identified and analysed for their implications for policy-makers, managers and citizens. Various relationships are identified between innovation and improvement in public services. The traditional bias of the literature that innovation is necessarily functional is undermined. Important lessons for policy, practice and research include the need to develop an understanding of innovation which is not over-reliant on the private sector manufacturing literature but reflects the distinctive contexts and purposes of the public sector.

855 citations

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31 Aug 1984-Science
TL;DR: A series of hypotheses is presented about the relation of national energy use to national economic activity (both time series and cross-sectional) which offer a different perspective from standard economics for the assessment of historical and current economic events.
Abstract: A series of hypotheses is presented about the relation of national energy use to national economic activity (both time series and cross-sectional) which offer a different perspective from standard economics for the assessment of historical and current economic events. The analysis incorporates nearly 100 years of time series data and 3 years of cross-sectional data on 87 sectors of the United States economy. Gross national product, labor productivity, and price levels are all correlated closely with various aspects of energy use, and these correlations are improved when corrections are made for energy quality. A large portion of the apparent increase in U.S. energy efficiency has been due to our ability to expand the relative use of high-quality fuels such as petroleum and electricity, and also to relative shifts in fuel use between sectors of the economy. The concept of energy return on investment is introduced as a major driving force in our economy, and data are provided which show a marked decline in energy return on investment for all our principal fuels in recent decades. Future economic growth will depend largely on the net energy yield of alternative fuel sources, and some standard economic models may need to be modified to account for the biophysical constraints on human economic activity.

781 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors employ recent developments in the modeling of firms and market structures to explain the occurrence of franchising and its distribution among sectors of the economy and analyze the contractual consequences of profit maximization by the franchisor.
Abstract: percent of all retail sales in the United States and originate 12 percent of the gross national product, yet the franchise relationship has largely escaped economic analysis This paper employs recent developments in the modeling of firms and market structures to explain the occurrence of franchising and its distribution among sectors of the economy and to analyze the contractual consequences of profit maximization by the franchisor The first section characterizes the economic relation involved in franchising and explains why it occurs in certain sectors of the economy The second analyzes franchisors' use of their market power as an exercise in constrained maximization The third section considers the franchisor's choice between owned and franchised outlets

732 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202361
2022154
2021414
2020469
2019381
2018380