Purpose – The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of quality certifications on apparent labour productivity in a sample of hotels in Spain. Design/methodology/approach – In line with Mairesse and Kremp (1993), the theoretical model was based on a Cobb–Douglas production...

The first aim of this paper is to analyse the main tendencies in employment and regional labour productivity in the Spanish hospitality sector in the period 1987-2004. A second purpose is to analyse the main determinants of sectoral labour productivity. The estimation of an augmented production...

This paper investigates the role of external knowledge in the patenting activity of inventors that work inside firms, i.e. industrial inventors. It does so with the aim of showing that inventors who combine the use of different sources of knowledge, i.e. scientific and market sources, display a...