This paper serves as another complementary link in a chain of a rather limited number of investigations in the R&D-innovation-productivity … relationship within service industries. Innovation has been found to be a major contributor to productivity growth in manufacturing …. In this paper, the importance of innovation is explored by comparing manufacturing and service firms in a sample of …

This paper analyzes the linkage between services and manufacturing productivity performance, using firm-level data for … rate of services input intensity, a 10% improvement in services productivity is associated with an increase in … manufacturing productivity 0.3%, and a resulting increase in exports of 0.2%. Services trade restrictiveness indices (STRI) are …

industry diversity. Moreover, labour productivity is positively linked to global sourcing. The findings support arguments for … the importance of the Internet for global trade and they confirm the productivity advantage of importing in comparison to …

enterprise software and e-commerce purchases from suppliers make offshoring more likely. Labour productivity and the realisation … of a product innovation are significantly and positively linked to offshoring for firms from both sectors. This finding … confirms the productivity advantage of offshoring in comparison to non-offshoring firms that is stated in the literature …

industry diversity. Moreover, labour productivity is positively linked to global sourcing. The findings support arguments for … the importance of the Internet for global trade and they confirm the productivity advantage of importing in comparison to …

productivity. The relationship is further shaped by the sector environment as well as intrinsic characteristics of the goods and …

sectors and their impact on the productivity of local manufacturing firms. We distinguish between pecuniary and technological …