we use data on market sector productivity, R&D and non-R&D intangible assets, and public sector R&D spending. We look for … civil or defence R&D. Our findings tentatively suggest that for maximum market sector productivity impact government …

, measured by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontier technique is applied, basing the analysis on a unique … as pivotal input in order to control for their particular contribution to firm-level efficiency. Conceptually, the study … results of this study suggest that – if the aim is to leverage companies' productivity – emphasis should be put on supporting …

We analyze the efficiency and productivity growth of a representative sample of Portuguese hospitals from 1997 to 2004 … productivity indicator that is decomposed into the usual constituents of productivity growth: technological change and efficiency …, using an innovative approach by employing the directional distance function and the Luenberger productivity indicator. The …

Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in … privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … find that privatization to domestic owners did not markedly improve the efficiency of firms; domestic firms are not …

while there was an increase in the productivity of factor inputs during the 1990s, most of the growth in value added is … explained by growth in the use of factor inputs. We also find that median technical efficiency declined in all but one of the … industries between the two years, and change in technical efficiency explains a very small proportion in the change in gross …

the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable …

We study the impact of and reward to middle management ability using data from 245 stores of a nationwide retailer. The … company scores six broad areas of management practice, the most important of which turns out to be "commercial awareness …", where able managers raise labour productivity by 17% compared to less able. We show that the managers' incentive scheme is …

First moves towards a real understanding of offshoring date back to very recent times. In particular for Japan, the … studies conducted so far focus alone on the productivity effects of offshoring at the firm level. Here I carry out the … analysis of both the employment and productivity effects at the aggregate level of the industry, covering the years 1980 …

Using detailed survey data on management practices, this paper uses recent advances in unconditional quantile analysis … to study the changes in the within country distribution of management quality associated with country convergence to the … emerges as the frontier country, not because of on average better management, but because its best firms are far better than …

by management, determines the firms’ performance. Despite an ex ante symmetry of potential entrants, the equilibrium …, productivity, managerial skills and manager remuneration. …