This paper addresses the relationship between productivity in the retail sector and market size. In the paper, the … individuals working in the retail sector is used as a proxy for productivity. In order to capture urban-periphery interaction in …

This paper analyses the effect of innovation on the well-established productivity-export association in the literature … further, which may facilitate future productivity. We use the micro-data from two waves of Swedish Community Innovation Survey … (CIS) to provide empirical evidences to test our argument concerning this interrelation between innovation, productivity …

's product strategies - market preemption, product diversification, and incremental product innovation - to observe the effect of …. The results were similar in terms of incremental product innovation. This implies that companies did not devote more time … performance caused inertia in product diversification and incremental product innovation strategies. …

Increased productivity is one of the main drivers of economic growth. Considering the increasing importance of the … service sector in many economies studies of productivity in service firms are essential, but still rare. Questions concerning … the underlying reasons for productivity differences in service firms are therefore important. Why is the productivity in …

store specific information to estimate the impact on productivity of space and the specific effects of planning … restrictiveness on the productivity of retailing. It is the first paper to analyse the contribution of space to productivity and to … restrictiveness directly reduces productivity in retailing thereby increasing retail prices. …