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What Does Total Factor Productivity Measure?
Lipsey, Richard G.; Carlaw, Kenneth - In: International Productivity Monitor 1 (2000) Fall, pp. 31-40
In this article, as part of the symposium on total factor productivity, Richard G. Lipsey of Simon Fraser University and Kenneth Carlaw of the University of Canterbury in New Zealand provide a trenchant critique of the concept of total factor productivity. They conclude that "the degree of...
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The Importance of Skills for Innovation and Productivity
Rao, Someshwar; Tang, Jianmin; Wang, Weimin - In: International Productivity Monitor 4 (2002) Spring, pp. 15-26
detailed examination of the dynamics of innovation and determinants of productivity at the firm and industry level in Canadian …, product market competition, and government support for R&D, training, and technical assistance are the drivers of innovation …
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Editor's Overview
Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 5 (2002) Fall, pp. 1-2
The fifth issue of the International Productivity Monitor published by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards contains six articles. Topics covered are: the Canada-US manufacturing productivity gap; trends in Canadian living standards; the impact of economic reform on British productivity...
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Editor's Overview
Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 4 (2002) Spring, pp. 1-2
for the Canada-U.S. productivity and income gaps; the importance of skills for innovation and productivity; the diffusion …
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Productiivity Convergence among OECD Countries: The Postwar Experience
Wolff, Edward N. - In: International Productivity Monitor 1 (2000) Fall, pp. 17-22
This article by Edward N. Wolff of New York University examines trends in convergence in OECD countries toward U.S. productivity levels during the postwar period and finds strong evidence for this phenomenon up to 1990, with rapid growth in investment, education, and R&D in OECD countries...
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Performance à l'exportation et innovation technologique dans les PME manufacturières indépendantes
Bourgault, Mario; Lefebvre, Élisabeth; Lefebvre, Louis A. - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1994
Small and medium enterprises have strengthened their importance during the last decades in most industrialized countries, including the United States, Germany, Japan and Canada. The province of Quebec makes no exception as firms of less than 200 employees generate a substantial portion of its...
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L’Apprentissage des Collectifs de Travail Structuré par les TIC dans le Domaine des Services Informatiques
BENALLOU, Khadidja; BENTAHRI, Baghdad - Centre de Recherche en Économie et Management (CREM) - 2011
L’apprentissage collectif revêt un caractère stratégique dans un contexte où les TIC (technologies de l'information et de la communication) s'imposent et nous sont imposées. Leurs usages sont représentatifs de moments clefs dans le processus de diffusion des apprentissages, mais on leur...
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L'inertie du changement dans l'industrie électrique en Amérique du Nord. Le respect du protocole de Kyoto est-il réaliste?
Jacques, Christiane; Lafrance, Gaëtan; Doucet, Joseph - Département d'Économique, Université Laval - 1999
Les objectifs fixés par l'accord de Kyoto, s'ils seront respectés, imposent des changements fondamentaux dans la structure de l'économie nord-américaine. Ce texte met en évidence l'ampleur du défi de Kyoto en décrivant clairement l'inertie historique dans l'industrie électrique...
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Les usages d’Internet : facteurs de compétitivité de la «PME réseau»?
Amabile, Serge; Gadille, Martine - In: Revue Finance Contrôle Stratégie 9 (2006) 1, pp. 35-57
) In this article, we argue that Internet associated technology contributes to SMEs’ development and competitiveness by … SMEs showing a capacity to achieve an improvement in competitiveness through Internet associated technology uses. These … with a second population of SMEs that shows difficulties to utilize Internet associated technology in terms of competitive …
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Jacques Laffitte, an investment banker who did not create a model for investment banking (In French)
BONIN, Hubert - Groupe de Recherche en Économie Théorique et … - 2007
The research program about the history of investment banking gauged in this text the legacy of Jacques Laffitte, one of the initiators of modern investment banking in the years 1800-1840. It assesses the reality of his contributions and argues about their role within the process of modernisation...
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