Showing 1 - 10 of 570
service productivity and innovation, and call for a conceptual re-working of the ways in which these are measured. They also …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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851223
dual labour market * the relative stagnancy of Europe versus the USA in terms of productivity levels and unemployment … endogenous growth theory, economic growth and unemployment, labour market economics and industrial organization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473896
-Schumpeterian economics, namely, innovation and uncertainty. The authors demonstrate how neo-Schumpeterian economics is developing into a … comprehensive economic theory encompassing industry, the public sector and financial markets …pt. I. Industry and innovation -- pt. II. Finance in modern economics -- pt. III. The public sector and the future of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851025
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420031
This book considers the impact of economic reforms on manufacturing performance and explores policy options for promoting manufacturing. Using country-specific case studies spanning Africa, South Asia, South East Asia and Latin America, the authors examine the evidence for and against both trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850989
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473898
factor productivity (TFP) growth and aims to identify the sources of output growth in these East Asian economies. Chia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474036
This original book presents a new basis for environmental policymaking: environmental networks. This framework graphically simplifies the analysis of environmental problems and emphasizes the spatial nature of economic activity and pollution dispersion. The book first discusses the foundations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473829
A work exposing and exploring the phenomena of the dysfunctional workplace is long overdue. This fascinating book does just that, uncovering the subversiveness, counter-productive behaviour and unspoken 'issues' that managers struggle with on a daily basis
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419989
Economic Performance in the Americas compares the economic performances of Brazil, Mexico and the USA over the past half century. As with most other high and middle-income countries their economies are service-sector orientated and have been for several decades. This book encompasses all sectors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850812