companies with higher wages, higher productivity and higher capital intensity. The ‘blip up’ in new recognitions is consistent …

-level productivity, profitability, Tobin’s Q, sales growth and survival rates. Management practices also display significant cross …

the years of Conservative government, 1979-97. We focus on measures of business performance, especially productivity … growth. This is a key economic indicator as in the long run, productivity determines material wellbeing - wages and … consumption. Productivity determines the size of the 'economic pie' available to the citizens of a country. …

This paper analyzes differences in R&D spending and in the impact of R&D on productivity between German and UK firms …

" hypothesis that foreign research labs located on US soil tap into US R&D spillovers and improve home country productivity. Using … firms’ Total Factor Productivity would have been at least 5% lower in 2000 (about $14bn) in the absence of the US R&D growth …

In this chapter we examine the relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) and productivity. HRM includes … practices and productivity. We start with some facts on levels and trends of both HRM and productivity and the main economic … theories of HRM. We look at some of the determinants of HRM – risk, competition, ownership and regulation. The largest section …

John Van Reenen sketches the evolution of CEP research on the drivers of productivity growth - and its impact on …

structured practices for performance monitoring, target setting and incentives enjoy greater productivity and profitability …