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. …

governance and market discipline on productivity growth. We find that firms under concentrated ownership tend to show … significantly higher productivity growth. Financial pressure from creditors influences productivity growth positively, particularly … for firms in financial distress. Regarding market discipline, productivity grows faster when competition on product …

linkages between the firm's R&D investment, product and process innovations, and future productivity and profits. The dynamic …&D investment. For the median productivity firm, investment in R&D raises firm value by 3.0 percent in a group of hightech … significantly affect R&D investment rates and productivity changes in the high-tech industries. …

investigate the relationship between exports and productivity. Our overall results are in line with the big picture that is by now … controlled for, and these exporter productivity premia tend to increase with the share of exports in total sales; there is strong … government report higher productivity premia. However, the level of development per se does not appear to be an explanation for …

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 …

The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of … technologies and that joint adoption leads to higher productivity. Without having introduced complementary organizational … innovations, the adoption of CO2 reducing technologies is associated with lower productivity. …

linkages between the firm's R&D investment, product and process innovations, and future productivity and profits. The dynamic …&D investment. For the median productivity firm, investment in R&D raises firm value by 3.0 percent in a group of hightech … significantly affect R&D investment rates and productivity changes in the high-tech industries. …

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. …