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Integration and Productivity: Satellite-Tracked Evidence
2014
Management science
This paper introduces satellite-tracked real-time data from a large fishing firm managing its vertically, horizontally, and geographically linked ships to study the causal impact of integration on total factor productivity (TFP) after the firm acquired its vertically unintegrated contractual fish suppliers. TFP increased 16% among newly integrated ships, while it did not vary for already owned ships. Some classic mechanisms such as increased effort due to monitoring do not systematically
doi:10.1287/mnsc.2013.1833
fatcat:4yrx5rxt7bdoni42dd6aiant2i