This empirical study investigates productivity performance of Canadian (n = 43) and US (n = 95) manufacturers in the … different categories of productivity measures: financial, customer related, and internal business related. TQM firms indicate … improved performance on various productivity measures. Statistically significant differences exist between the two countries on …

trigger to improve productivity. The gains from biotechnology for farmers are now over CND 1 billion per year in Canada … and then the focus moves to the impacts for farmers in Canada. New data are gathered to estimate recent gains in the … investments in Canada are now much higher than public sector investments and thus institutional innovations have been a powerful …

Japan. Productivity improvement programmes, particularly in Canada, are examined to determine why some fail while others … succeed. Specific case studies are also presented to determine how productivity can be improved through effective human …

Abstract Productivity growth in many advanced economies has decelerated in the last decades. There is increasing … evidence that the misallocation of production function has contributed to the weakness in productivity. Factors behind this … misallocation of production factors on productivity and assess their role for the weakness in productivity growth in Germany …