labor productivity effects with a representative sample of Finnish businesses. Depending on the IT task in question, on … magnitude. While the issues of causality, timing, self-selection, and unobserved firm heterogeneity are not fully addressed, the …

changing global competitive environment through major structural changes the firm and plant structures have changed as …

technological change and productivity growth takes place in an economy. Quite normally, some 30-50% of an industrys productivity … growth is due to this particular mechanism. Disruptions to this mechanism would have considerable effects on productivity …

-industry restructuring in productivity growth, few studies have gone beyond the framework of the representative firm in examining convergence … or divergence in regional productivity. We use unique longitudinal plant-level data over a long period of time and apply … a useful variant of productivity decomposition methods to study differences in productivity-enhancing restructuring …

This paper studies how firms contribute to the productivity growth of an industry over their lifecycle. We present a … decomposition method that allows us to condition the components of productivity growth on the age of production units. We find … effect is tightly related to the negative initial productivity effect of entry. We also find some evidence that productivity …

a manufacturing firm is augmented with intangible services. In this paper, servitization is addressed broadly as a … strategic reorientation by a manufacturing firm which entails adjustments in the firm business model as well. A useful framework … to address the product-service transition is the socio-economic view of service productivity. On that basis, the paper …

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

R&D inputs and productivity are transmitted to domestic demand mainly through wage and private consumption growth and to … dominates the overall effect on GDP growth because an increase in R&D inputs boosts productivity in industry the most. An … most effective in terms of their impact on national productivity. Raising R&D inputs in the forest industry and the …

This study analyses how R&D expenditure impacts the productivity of companies. We analyse the productivity impact of R … short run (in 1-2 years) we find no statistically significant productivity impact of R&D. However, R&D does have an … almost 5 years is needed to capture the productivity impact of R&D. …