liberalisation and export diversification in Nepal -- 7. Liberalisation and the manufacturing sector -- 8. Small enterprise …

-economic factors influencing low agricultural productivity in the developing world. Agricultural productivity has long been regarded as … stagnated and low agricultural productivity in developing countries. This book goes beyond the traditional discussion of low … productivity being primarily determined by technological factors, and addresses the more complex determinants. Special attention is …

: diversification of innovative efforts in Norwegian firms / Eric J. Iversen -- 10. Heterogeneity and knowledge-intensive business …

change. The book explores the changing nature of this diversification with respect to firm size, technological relatedness …-purpose technologies. Although historically, diversification is associated with an increase in firm size, the author argues that in recent …

This innovative and clearly written book examines the process of diversification as a strategy to promote innovation … industry, using cases of diversification at Dassault (France), Saab (Sweden) and Daewoo (South Korea), the author examines … diversification process. He then uses these findings to propose a new, original model for diversification. Key features include: * an …

, 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 …

The definition and measurement of productivity in services raises important conceptual, methodological and strategic … problems. This book aims to provide a critical review of the main debates on productivity in the domain of services. The first … part examines the theoretical consequences of services specificities on the concept of productivity and reviews the …