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 …

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 …

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 …

-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 …

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 …

, namely the employee share of managers and professionals, is associated with profit risk at the firm level. Using data that … 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. …