phenomena, attention is paid to the role of profitability as a driver of productivity and investment and global hegemony as a … economies. An important aspect of relative decline is a progressive secular slowing down of productivity growth. Another is the … driver of international resource transfers. Particular attention is paid to an empirical analysis of the profitability of the …

This article explores the dynamics of market selection by investigating of the relationships linking productivity …, profitability, investment and growth, based on China's manufacturing firm-level dataset over the period 1998 - 2007. First, we find … that productivity variations, rather than relative levels, are the dominant productivity-related determinant of firm growth …