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 …

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 …

the productivity of labor and relative bargaining power of capital and labor. It turns out that codetermination does not … affect productivity, but leads to a significant increase in workers’ bargaining power and the distribution of rents. …

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 the links between internationalisation, innovation and productivity in service enterprises. For … higher productivity. Among the innovation types that we consider, the largest productivity returns were found for marketing …

We analyze the productivity effects of environmental (green) investment as well as of environmental expenditures and … investment positively impinges upon production growth as a productivity driver. We thus conclude that environmental regulation … should stimulate investment in order to be compatible with economic goals such as productivity. …

Wage and productivity effects of training are compared to study how the training rent is shared between employers and … employees. With panel data from 1996-2002, I analyse the impact of continuing training on wages and productivity in a Cobb … on both wages and productivity. The effect on productivity is about three times higher than the one on wages. High …