level of R&D. We analyze whether different R&D activities show a positive influence on total factor productivity (TFP) for … collaborations with individuals. Our comprehensive analysis depicts strengths but also weaknesses of the corporate sector in China …

Using a unique German firm-level data set, we provide empirical evidence for a productivity sorting along two …

This study investigates productivity effects to firms introducing new environmental technologies. The literature on … within-firm organisational change and productivity suggests that firms can get higher productivity effects from adopting new … productivity. The simultaneous implementation of organisational innovations, however, increases the returns to the adoption of …

Productivity growth has been slow in many continental European countries over the last few decades, especially in … product market competition experience higher rates of productivity growth. We also find weak evidence for the notion that in … Germany's bank-based system of internal control, ownership concentration is harmful for productivity growth. …

This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the … conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14 … performance distributions are more dispersed. In both countries, we observe non-linearities in the productivity effects of …

productivity but the combination of IT and decentralization does not yield a productivity premium. Contrarily, for the sample of … larger firms, the results show that the productivity of IT depends positively on decentralization. The findings suggest that …

data and a binary instrumental variable to estimate the effect of outsourcing on productivity. …

during the crisis in 2008 and 2009, ICT-intensive firms were hit less hard with respect to their productivity. This holds in … innovations during that period which could explain their better productivity performance compared to non-ICT intensive firms. …