Kenyan and Tanzanian enterprises we analyse determinants of productivity. Our main empirical findings are that investment in … machines that gives managers access to formal information has a significant positive relationship with productivity in both …

on a firm's productivity and what the consequences are for a firm's profits. …

This paper empirically analyzes the productivity, profitability, innovation and network effects of a public policy … policy adversely impacts the productivity, profitability, growth, and innovation performance of the small and micro leather … quantitatively evaluate the productivity, profitability, innovation and network effect of industrial cluster policy in Ethiopia. …

's productivity. We compare outsourcing in domestic with foreign-owned establishments. Our empirical results suggest that high wages …-owned firms have higher levels of outsourcing than domestic establishments. In the productivity analysis we find that an … establishment's outsourcing intensity is positively related to its labour productivity and total factor productivity growth and that …

to influence productivity. To this end we estimate plant-level production functions augmented by regional characteristics …

on productivity, using a large panel of around 6200 firms. The findings of the theoretical literature on this topic are … consortia increases productivity. …