pt. 1. Productivity and performances in services -- pt. 2. Innovation in services and through services … relationships between services, production and innovation. The authors discuss the limitations of current theories to explain … service productivity and innovation, and call for a conceptual re-working of the ways in which these are measured. They also …

analysing and understanding innovation in services. He provides interesting and extensive empirical material on the nature and … sources of innovation in various services sectors and countries, and makes an original contribution both to theories of … innovation in services and theories of innovation in general. Taking both an evolutionary and conventionalist stance, he …

productivity and the re-organization of work in the global car industry … challenges accepted views on Japanese production methods in the world car industry. The book argues that the 'lean and flexible … stresses of globalization. To illustrate this, Dan Coffey provides individual studies of process flexibility, labour …

'globalization' of economic activities is fully achieved, where 'post-Fordist' regulation has overcome the crisis of Keynesian …

accounting and productivity analysis by 33 industrial sectors in Korea (1984-2002) -- 6. Industry-wide total factor productivity … project by RIETI (Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry), Japan. The total factor productivity growth and level …1. Introduction -- 2. Investigating productivity slowdown in the 1990s by using the KLEM database in Japan -- 3. The …

-1995 -- 10. Small-scale industry in the Gaza Strip …

comparison with the world productivity leader, the USA. The author uses new empirical data to assess the degree of structural … change in the manufacturing sector and its importance for productivity growth. He then discusses conditions for economic …