the effectiveness of the European railway deregulation process in enhancing efficiency and productivity in the European … regulatory conditions on efficiency and productivity. The first paper, ‘Testing for Economies of Scope in European Railways: An …. We find that for a majority of European railways economies of scope exist. The second paper, ‘Productivity Growth in …

economic development through its impact on productivity, fertility and human capital investment.In the second chapter of this … dissertation, I model the impact on labor productivity of a change in disease susceptibility that results from intellectual …

behighly productive. Hence measurement of productivity of software developmentprojects has become an aspect of high interest to … management.The purpose of the research was to explore the perceptions of andmeasurements of productivity of software development … projects among professionals and thepractical ways in which productivity is measured.A qualitative research methodology was …

“You can see the computer age everywhere except in the productivity statistics”. Thisoffhand remark by Robert Solow … of informationtechnology on productivity.The research presented in this dissertation has been conducted on a … anddemonstrated an improvement of over 50% in the productivity of the data collectionprocess, and its integrity. An important aspect …

teams. Blaming was found tonegatively correlate with productivity improvement (r = -.59), whereas strategizing wasfound to … positively correlate with productivity improvement (r = .33). Study 2 was a labstudy conducted to addresses several of the …

between infrastructure and private productivity. The second subject is the determinants of regional infrastructure investment … infrastructure to private production; the essays three to five study besides the productivity effects also the determinants of …

rigidity. The third essay analyses how different unionisation structures affect firm productivity and firm performance in a … among heterogeneous producers and increases average productivity and profit levels, firm-level bargaining allows less … productive entrants to remain in the market. The positive effect of centralised bargaining on average productivity can, however …