There is a lack of comprehensive information on the quality of management in Finland as compared to other countries … this gap. As part of the project, an extensive survey concerning management practices has been implemented for Finnish … manufacturing establishments. Its design meticulously follows the Management and Organizational Practices Survey (MOPS), a survey …

longitudinal earnings records for their employees to study the relationship between productivity, management, worker ability, and … management practices on productivity in German manufacturing. …Recent research suggests that much of the cross-firm variation in measured productivity is due to differences in use of …

Die vorliegende Untersuchung betrachtet die Zusammenarbeit mit dem lokalen Produktmanagement bei der internationalen … Produktmanagement liegt. Innovationsabteilungen und Lead Countries spielen eine untergeordnete Rolle. Trotz der in der Literatur … lokalen Produktmanagement als tendenziell positiv beurteilt. Verbesserungspotentiale werden in einer besseren Information des …

We propose a model of production where technical change is both time and management induced. We define a general … management index in addition to the general time index of Baltagi and Griffin (1988) and use them as arguments in the translog … productionfunction. Time and management induced technical change are then defined interms of these general indices. For comparison, we …

We study how total factor productivity (TFP), energy prices, and the Great Moderation are linked. First we estimate a … negatively affected productivity. This spillover has since disappeared. Second, we show that within the framework of a dynamic … stochastic general equilibrium model, the disappearance of this energy-productivity spillover generates the significantly lower …

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. …

productivity, the skill mix of the workforce and wages using micro data for the U.S. and Germany. We find support to the idea that … is evidenced in a greater dispersion in productivity and related key business choices. We also find that the mean impact … of adopting new technology on productivity and wages is greater the in U.S. than in Germany. …

rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …