This paper analyses the impact of business process outsourcing (BPO) on firm productivity based on a comprehensive …-level productivity. The results are robust across different estimation techniques. -- Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) ; 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. …

level of R&D. We analyze whether different R&D activities show a positive influence on total factor productivity (TFP) for …

Many studies investigate the relationship between R&D expenditures as an input and patents as an intermediate product … or output of a knowledge production function. We suggest that the productivity of research in patent production functions … Belgian firms. It turns out that only the 'R' part of R&D expenditure has a significant effect on patents and that development …

capital are found to be mixed. While R&D has a strong positive impact on productivity, design & licences and patents show only … assets are conducive to firm-level productivity. Our study contributes to the literature by simultaneously comparing … productivity effects of innovative capital, human capital, branding capital and organizational capital and testing whether …