We analyse the experience of Finnish firms operating in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Slovenia (CEE4 …

analyse the effects of foreign mergers and acquisitions on labour productivity and employment growth up to five years after …

to address the product-service transition is the socio-economic view of service productivity. On that basis, the paper …

cover essentially all firms in the Finnish business sector, we first document that labor productivity dispersion is very … market equilibrium and whether innovation subsidies can improve industry productivity by mitigating such a tax distortion. …

-R&D employment. The third essay focuses on the productivity effects of R&D. The results of empirical analyses are two-fold. In the … short run (in 1-2 years), no statistically significant productivity impact of R&D is found. However, R&D does have an … of almost 5 years is needed to capture the productivity impact of R&D. The fourth essay studies how patent quality …

second essay presents empirical evidence on the productivity impacts of stock option schemes. It shows that when endogeneity … firm productivity. The finding is consistent with the hypotheses that predict negligible effects of option plans on firm … performance. The third essay studies whether, instead of productivity, option schemes affect firm technical inefficiency. The …

business subsidies on firm productivity performance and on the relationship between firms’ lagged labor productivity and market … firms’ productivity performance. It seems that particularly employment and investment subsidies tend to be allocated to the … relatively less efficient companies. We further observe that a decline in the firm’s lagged labor productivity levels are clearly …

outlines the microeconomic frame for the integrative analysis of service productivity. The integrative frame is further refined … possible to address the intangible aspects of service productivity through the tangible characteristics of the firm …’s organization and the underlying strategy. The organizational method in the analysis of service productivity is illustrated by the …

productivity. An important issue, therefore, is how to measure allocative efficiency. We compare popular indicators of allocative … productivity and to the Olley-Pakes (OP) covariance component, which is currently the most popular measure of allocative efficiency …