"... In PAGE 24: ... The dummy D equals 1 for large firms and zero for small firms. The table reports the sum of the coefficients of the interaction terms between the variable and the dummy * significant at the 10% level; ** significant at the 5% level; *** significant at the 1% level The investment behaviour of large manufacturing firms seems to correspond to theoretical priors ( Table4 ). Large manufacturing firms react negatively to user cost changes13 and positively to value added growth and cash flow changes.... ..."

"... In PAGE 24: ...ectors.). We also performed a formal test along the same lines as above, by pooling small and large service firms and putting a dummy for large firms on the coefficients of each variable (for all its lags) sequentially. Table6 presents the results. The reaction to cash flow changes of large service firms seems significantly much lower than for small service firms.... ..."

"... In PAGE 9: ... Data Data at the two-digit level on the value added, employment and labour compensation of domestically-owned firms were obtained from the Annual Census of Production by subtracting data on foreign-owned firms from that for the total population of firms. The long-term trends in the share of foreign-owned firms in the UK manufacturing sector are summarised in Table1 . It can be seen that their share of total output, employment and investment has risen over time.... In PAGE 16: ... For instance, in a comparison of inward investment by US companies in the 1950s and Japanese companies in the 1980s Dunning (1988) argues that the former largely sought to transfer product and marketing innovations to the UK, whereas the latter were more concerned to transfer the managerial practices and quality standards used by the parent company. There are distinct differences in the pattern of inward investment by nationality, as shown in Table1 . The United States has historically been the most important source of inward investment, but investments from other EU economies have risen rapidly in more recent years, partly as a result of the Single Market Programme in Europe (Hubert and Pain, 2000).... ..."

"... In PAGE 13: ... The other one is the official minimum wage. Means and standard deviations of the key variables are presented in Table2 . These averages confirm that the sample comprises primarily large plants, although there is clearly substantial variation both between and within industries.... ..."

"... In PAGE 8: ...ignificance levels (ie better than 0.1% level)4. They were also asked about competition with existing firms. Comparable figures in Table2 suggested significant differences across industries for apos;comprehensive patenting apos; and apos;agreement with competitors apos;, and again substantial differences across type of instrument at all conventional statistical levels. INSERT TABLE 1 HERE INSERT TABLE 2 HERE 4.... In PAGE 11: ... Gilbert apos;s conclusions help us to interpret the results from the present study. Whereas a very large proportion of firms gave high priority to R amp; D for both combating new entry and meeting existing competition (66 and 77 per cent respectively), making it the most important of the eight variables listed in Table2 , almost the reverse is the case for apos;comprehensive patenting apos;, which ranked near the bottom. One quarter or fewer firms rated it as highly significant.... ..."

"... In PAGE 3: ... The ten firms without a site are in Manufacturing, Retail Trade, and Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate.1 Table1 lists the number of Fortune 500 firms with public Web sites, by SIC Division.2 The firms are very large - average revenues are $11.... ..."

"... In PAGE 18: ... In addition, there are 58 logistics outsourcing announcements; 49 are onshore, 5 offshore, and 2 with no location specified. Table1 a presents descriptive statistics about each sample. The mean asset value of the manufacturing firms is $17.... In PAGE 19: ...14 Table1 b presents the SIC code for each of the announcements. The most prevalent SIC code for outsourcing is Computers, Electronics, and Communication with 84 (48%) announcements followed by Food, Furniture, Paper and Chemicals with 21 (12%).... In PAGE 49: ... Table1 b. Industry break down for manufacturing and logistics outsourcing firms Industry break down SIC All % Manufact.... ..."

"... In PAGE 5: ... About 1,200 life specialist agents sold the life insurance products, of whom, according to the vice president for Life and Health, about 800 were exceptional producers for the Life Company. Fifteen managers were interviewed at Midwestern Life (see Table4 , below). 0-7695-1435-9/02 $17.... ..."

"... In PAGE 22: ... A consequence of replacing the cash flow with liquidity is that the elasticity to sales is now slightly larger and more precisely estimated than before. Table7 provides a last robustness check: the basic model is estimated including a set of interaction coefficients that allow for separate effects for manufacturing firms, in order to check whether their behaviour is different from the others, as could be suggested by some of the anecdotal evidence in section 3. However, no major differences are spotted.... ..."