econometric analysis of the contributionof public agricultural research capital to state agricultural productivity is reported … rate. New TFP results show that public agricultural research capitalcontributes significantly to agricultural productivity …

This Working Paper gives insights into the concepts of productivity and efficiency. Both conceptsare popular measures … measuring productivity and efficiency in a non-technical manner. Variousparametric as well as non parametric approaches are … summarized. In addition, the two mostpopular efficiency measurement techniques, Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) and …

more efficient governance structures have higher profitability. To determine efficiency we compare firms with respect to … regressions of profitability. Our main finding is that the efficiency scores indeed contribute significantly to explaining … profitability differences between firms, even after controlling for industry effects and unobserved systematic firm effects. …

firm’s ability to improve its productivity growth and profitability. The case study reported here concerns the … in which the dependent variable is alternatively (labor) productivity growth and profitability. Our findings show that … only patents with the EPO, along with larger firm size, have a statistically significant relationship with productivity …

determination of consistent criteria for the measurement, evaluation and assessment of these results (Environmental Performance … Measurement (EPM)).These criteria will allow internal and also external benchmarking.(...) …

Die deskriptive Auswertung und Darstellung der Ergebnisse aus der Studie "Messung des ökologischen Unternehmenserfolges …, daß die theoretischen Erkenntnisse sowie wichtige Datengrundlagen für die Umsetzung des Modells in den Unternehmen bereits …