increase productivity, flexibility and automation. Moreover, retail chains also seek to lower prices and impose just …

This paper brings together the latest data and OECD productivity indicators in different areas with the aim of … reviewing the main productivity trends over the past decade, comparing the United States, Europe and to some extent Japan …. Concerning economy wide indicators of productivity, the slowdown appears to be due to a significant slowdown in investment in …

supply of skill). Third, OC leads to greater productivity increases in establishments with larger initial skill endowments …

. Recent scandals in the financial industry exposed overconfidence in IT based regulation and, as scholars of regulation have … with a broad perspective we define sociomaterial regulation as the relationships between the rules, the IT artifacts, and … modalities of sociomaterial regulation which can be understood using the three relationships: functionality-, tool-, role …

exclusive rights of use over information and on the self-regulation of on-line communities. Through a decentralized system of …

from others, and because they seek to influence the industry regulation. Properly organized fora establish an open …

underscore the economic importance of regulation in the funds’ asset allocation choices, relative to institutional and individual …