Purpose Most articles in the field of management evidence that knowledge transfer enhances firms’ innovation …, productivity and employment. Despite of the amount of studies a systematization of dimensions of knowledge transfer and its effects … firms’ competitiveness. Findings The paper provides a conceptual paper on the role of innovation for sustainability …

framework and primary research from Hungary, Estonia, and Azerbaijan, challenges to Eastern European development are identified … size businesses, for innovation and creative learning by doing, for financial intermediation, for better inter …

Purpose – Excavator productivity calculations embrace myriad variables, which in turn, can be modelled in several ways …. A key productivity variable is operator competence ( O c ) because this can impact on so many of the other variables …. Earlier research has studied excavator productivity, but little has attempted to simultaneously model productivity variables …

approach for public sector productivity might be the disaggregated approach. Such an approach, focusing on the output … components at a tactical level, could alleviate the problems related to public service productivity measurement (i.e. the problem … for the productivity and performance management discipline and worthy of greater examination. Research limitations …

The importance of productivity measures in monitoring the performance of manufacturing firms is well documented though …

maintenance (TPM) is a relatively recent development. Outlines improving maintenance productivity through structural audit and …

Presents an elementary version of the Malmquist productivity change index. This index measures productivity change …

This paper provides statistical evidence of the effects of overtime hours on worker productivity using aggregate panel …‐augmented production function model, with possible effects of overtime on productivity incorporated through the specification of factor … effort functions. The empirical results suggest that use of overtime hours lowers average productivity, measured as output …

general training as well and that this has a positive effect on labour productivity. So far empirical research does not …. This paper presents a sector model that measures the effect of training on productivity. The sector model developed in this …