of firm productivity, focusing on the role played by international management standards certification. We develop and … technological capabilities, international standards are still conducive to higher productivity, through improved management … productivity premium. We further investigate the relationship between technological innovation and standard adoption. We find that …

This paper provides a review of conceptual and methodological issues in measuring productivity. Attention is given to … the concept of productivity and the relationship between productivity and technological change. Different approaches to … measuring productivity are surveyed and the results from a number of NZ productivity studies are summarised. The availability of …

The benefits from the New Economy should accrue as improvements in productivity and economic growth. But while the use … apparent ‘productivity paradox’. The most obvious one is the fact that not many countries, other than the US, have yet invested …

spillovers on firm-level productivity are extensively studied in applied work, but not in the context of resource misallocation …

’s foreign intelligence service to sector-specific gaps in total factor productivity (TFP) between West and East Germany. Based …

's foreign intelligence service to sector-specific gaps in total factor productivity (TFP) between West and East Germany. Based …

This paper investigates the relative labor productivity level for total manufacturing in Germany, Sweden and the US for … the period 1980-2001. The paper also presents estimates of labor productivity levels for 18 different manufacturing … industries for the period 1993-2000. The results show that the Swedish manufacturing productivity caught up with German and US …

This paper studies how firms contribute to the productivity growth of an industry over their lifecycle. We present a … decomposition method that allows us to condition the components of productivity growth on the age of production units. We find … effect is tightly related to the negative initial productivity effect of entry. We also find some evidence that productivity …