export market performance over the last few years is linked to the deterioration of profitability of production in Finland. A … profitability. Wage moderation would obviously serve this purpose. On the other hand, the determinants of Finland’s long …

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, prices and labour compensation. The results show that profitability in Finnish manufacturing is competitive because … of the high productivity level in 2007. However, the measurement of profitability and the quality of price components …

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 …

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

’s profitability with the universal service obligation and without it. The data suggest that the provision of universal letter services … in compliance with the law causes a notable financial burden for Itella. The profitability of the universal service …

Postal service volumes have diminished and the profitability of postal and courier activities has weakened in Finland … in recent years. The study evaluates the development of the service volumes, profitability and employment of postal and … distribution volumes. The profitability of postal services is not expected to improve until 2020 because the increasing unit costs …

profitability of universal service provider was clearly lower than that of competitors during the sample time period. The annual …

The use of traditional industry-level profitability indicators for assessing the state of competition is problematic … profitability in opposite directions. In this analysis both problems are avoided by using firm-level Financial Statement Statistics …-level sources of industry-level profitability changes have been examined over a long-run period. The findings provide support to the …