The study examines US-European productivity and worker attitude differences, focusing on changes in incentive … structures. We analyze productivity and worker attitudes in five plants in the UK and US belonging to the same multinational … had an impact on productivity and profitability. We find that the UK plant's productivity and worker satisfaction was well …

orthopaedic surgery at five international hospitals to describe the issues that affect operating theatre productivity. It utilises … management methodologies can improve productivity in a process that exhibits wide variation in practice. There are apparent trade …

/EU productivity gap. We find robust evidence that US firms have a higher capacity to translate R&D into productivity gains (especially … in the high-tech industries), and this contributes to explaining the higher productivity of US firms. Conversely, EU … firms are more likely to achieve productivity gains through capital-embodied technological change at least in medium and low …