The definition and measurement of productivity in services raises important conceptual, methodological and strategic …pt. 1. Productivity : definitions and methods of measurement -- pt. 2. Productivity : determinants and strategies … problems. This book aims to provide a critical review of the main debates on productivity in the domain of services. The first …

1. Introduction and overview -- 2. Performance measurement in management literature -- 3. Perspectives of … practice -- 6. Measurement concepts and implications -- 7. Developing a generalizable model for measuring organizational …

, economic growth in China must transform from an inputs-driven pattern, to a productivity-driven pattern. Academics, researchers …

1. Introduction -- 2. Investigating productivity slowdown in the 1990s by using the KLEM database in Japan -- 3. The … sources of growth of US industries -- 4. Total factor productivity growth in Chinese industries, 1981-2000 -- 5. Growth … accounting and productivity analysis by 33 industrial sectors in Korea (1984-2002) -- 6. Industry-wide total factor productivity …

-Cambridge controversies in capital theory for econometric practice /G.C. Harcourt --Foreign direct investment and productivity spillovers : a … distribution of manufacturing productivity in the EU regions /Bernand Fingleton and Enrique López-Bazo --The role of wage …

1. Introduction : what is the New Economy? / Dennis W. Jansen -- 2. Projecting productivity growth : lessons from the … multifactor productivity in US service industries / Jack E. Triplett and Barry P. Bosworth -- 4. The New Economy and the …

important contributions. Firstly, it elaborates the hypothesis that total factor productivity growth stems from pecuniary …