via an increase in their productivity. The growing competitive pressure in the upstream sector, induced by global retail … chains, drives least productive firms out of the market and the average productivity of the sector increases. In addition …, retail sector FDI generates productivity gains at the firm level: local suppliers of multinational retailers benefit from the …

, the growing use of intermediates imported from China has contributed to the productivity growth within the manufacturing … production processes of 22 high-income countries. Using China’s productivity as the exogenous variation, the main result – based … average, lead to an increase in productivity by 0.65 per cent among high-income countries, and by 0.40 per cent in the US …

from globalisation on firms’ R&D productivity, especially in the US, while a negative impact for industrial diversification …This paper aims to assess the impact of both geographic and industrial diversification of economic activities on the … productivity performance of large European R&D Multinational Enterprises (MNEs). Based on the worldwide subsidiaries of these firms …

-food diversification is currently hailed as the means of delivering a new production logic, multifunctional agriculture, that advocates … geography literature exists on agro-food diversification, little work has examined how actors within businesses construct …

Specialisation strategies on the labour productivity of regional economies. We design an analytical framework that takes into account … Portal. The results show that Smart Specialisation strategies increase labour productivity as long as the priorities are set …-dependency in diversification choices. The findings deepen our understanding of regional development and innovation strategies, and …