process and product innovation. Both these kinds of innovation have a positive impact on firm's productivity, especially …Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not … capture. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a structural model of innovation which incorporates information on innovation …

knowledge acquisition (A), implementing written knowledge management rules (W). The French 1998-2000 Community Innovation Survey … to firm innovative performance and to its productivity. The impacts of adoption of the four surveyed KM practices on firm … innovative and productivity performance are not completely accounted by firm size, industry, research & development (R&D) efforts …

market is quantitatively important for mechanization and productivity since it provides a workaround for other market …

We link a new UK management survey covering 8,000 firms to panel data on productivity in manufacturing and services …. There is a large variation in management practices, which are highly correlated with productivity, profitability and size …

establishments. Within the framework of a modified Cobb-Douglas production function, layoffs do not influence subsequent productivity …

productivity observed in a sample of ten unionized plants. It is argued that this relationship reflects the productivity …

This paper examines the impact of unionization on profit- ability, growth and productivity using time series data on … over 900 product line businesses in the North American manufacturing sector (predominantly U.S.). The first section of the … analysis is that information about union wage and productivity effects is not sufficient to permit prediction of the sign (or …

between firm productivity and the level of its R&D invespments. In the time dimension, using deviations from fire means as … the lag structure of the effects of R&D on productivity. These effects are apparently highly variable, both in timing and …

pass-through productivity contributed 0.37% per year of a TFP growth rate of 1.09%. From 1994 to 2004, the falling … productivity gap contributed 0.77% per year to the TFP growth of 2.00% …