Performance Measurement Systems (PMS) are widely used, yet the evidence for their effect on productivity is still … for the study period 2003-2012. We develop a PMS score to aggregate the survey information and quantify how well a firm … industry and that endogenous growth will likely lead to reduce productivity. We conclude that higher quality PMS positively and …

. Alternatively, removing barriers between industries and countries would raise EU GDP by at least 25 percent. Firm characteristics … marginal products of capital and labor.We emphasize that some firm characteristics may reflect compensating differentials … due to differences in how the business, institutional and policy environment translates firm characteristics into outcomes …

consisting of resource reallocation, firm entry and exit, and productivity growth within continuing firms is carried out. Our … change shows that the high productivity growth has been mostly from within-firm productivity growth (e.g. the adoption of new …This paper presents one of the first studies of firm demographics in Estonia, particularly, on the processes of firm …

Using 2005 firm level data for 26 ECA countries, this paper estimates performance gaps between male- and female … smaller scale of operations (as measured by sales revenues) and are less efficient in terms of Total Factor Productivity (TFP …

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

The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of … innovations, the adoption of CO2 reducing technologies is associated with lower productivity. -- Firm behavior ; technical change … aspect. Using German firm-level data, we find that organizational change increases the returns to he use of CO2 reducing …

The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of … aspect. Using German firm-level data, we find that organizational change increases the returns to the use of CO2 reducing … technologies and that joint adoption leads to higher productivity. Without having introduced complementary organizational …

The present paper studies the relationship between R&D investment and firm productivity growth by explicitly accounting … for non-linearities in the R&D-productivity relationship and inter-sectoral firm heterogeneity. In order to address these …. Our results suggest that: (i) R&D investment increases firm productivity with an average elasticity of 0.15; (ii) the …

The present paper studies the relationship between R&D investment and firm productivity growth by explicitly accounting … for non-linearities in the R&D-productivity relationship and inter-sectoral firm heterogeneity. In order to address these …. Our results suggest that: (i) R&D investment increases firm productivity with an average elasticity of 0.15; (ii) the …