"Productivity is an essential concept in almost every field related to Economics and Management. As Paul Krugman wrote … in \The Age of Diminishing Expectations (1994)" \Productivity isn't everything, but in the long run it is almost … productivity is even more critical. The crisis has battered global economic activity in an unprecedented way. Entire sectors have …

Productivity varies widely between industries and countries, but even more so across individual firms within the same … productivity and policies designed to promote the reallocation of resources towards firms that could use them more effectively. The …, established some 10 years ago among major European institutions and a number of EU productivity boards, National Central Banks …