I study the relation between corporate diversification and labor productivity in a sample of over 600,000 firms from 89 … countries. Across the entire sample, greater diversification is associated with significantly lower labor productivity. Contrary … diversification and productivity is significantly stronger in countries with better financial development …

This paper aims to investigate the effect of knowledge characteristics on the total factor productivity of firms … coherence vs. market coherence and of accumulated knowledge on the productivity of firms differs. Productivity increases with … project knowledge, the diversity of the project portfolio positively affects productivity. -- total factor productivity …