Productivity, or the amount of output produced by a given number of inputs,can be measured in a number of ways;1 the focus of Governmentpolicy, and much of the theoretical and empirical literature, is on labourproductivity, which provides the theme of the discussion in this review.A central...

The growth process for a technological leader is different from that of a follower.While followers can grow through imitation and capital deepening, a leader must undertakeoriginal research. This suggests that as the gap between the leader and the follower narrows, thefollower must undertake...

This Research in Progress paper analysesusers’ requirements for the development of aVirtual Community (VC) for the academic SAPUCC (University Competence Center) UserGroup. The SAP UCC User Group consists oflecturers and students using SAP Software foreducational purposes. Initially, we are...

This paper examines the impact of mass media and information andcommunications technologies (ICT) as knowledge-based infrastructures oneconomic development. The results strongly suggest that both mass me-dia and ICT penetration are negatively associated with corruption. Thisresult holds across...