occupational structures when explaining productivity and profitability gaps between global and local firms. The findings indicate … reflected in their productivity, it is not as clearly reflected in their profitability.The findings imply that employees have … captured a dominant share of the productivity advantage of global firms. …

This study conducts an international comparison of productivity and profitability. First, the level and growth of … productivity are compared in OECD countries for the period from 1975 to 2009. According to this comparison, productivity growth has … productivity, prices and labour compensation. The results show that profitability in Finnish manufacturing is competitive because …

000 employees. In terms of firm size classes, the variances in profitability and productivity were large in software firms …. There are signs that middle-sized software firms (30-70 employees) suffer from lower than average productivity and … profitability, and their productivity growth rate has also been lower than in other size classes. On the whole, the labour …

technology. Hiring highly skilled workers is initially costly to firms but is productivity-enhancing in the long run. …

productivity at company-level. It is based on a conceptual study aiming to understand the relationship as well as two statistical … the results of intellectual capital measures and productivity measures are examined. The conceptual study suggests that … the company-level relationship between IC and productivity is a complex and case-specific phenomenon. The biggest problems …