competition and financial pressure on German firm productivity. Additionally, we are interested in the influence of ownership … identity and changes in ownership structure. We also test whether the specificity of assets affects productivity performance … has a positive influence on firm productivity. There is also some evidence for a discipline-of-debt effect. Interestingly …

seen on this scale in Germany for decades: a dire labor shortage. As even the general public has been made aware by the … Bündnis für Arbeit, Germany’s information technology (IT) industries currently suffer a shortfall of about 75,000 software … specialists.1 However, the focus of this article is not on the labor problems, but on the comparative characteristics of Germany …

productivity paradox in information technology. This paper is derived from that report. The authors find that the discussion of the … productivity paradox took place largely in the United States and particularly in Massachusetts. Two quite separate strands were … factors rather than a single factor is probably responsible for the disappointing productivity of IT. Within this combination …