neutral with respect to labour productivity, and hence that no evidence of welfare gain or welfare drain of foreign ownership …

investment, R&D, productivity and profit. Estimating relationships for 5,289 observations on Swedish manufacturing firms with 50 … between knowledge investments and ordinary investments can be established. Third, R&D has a strong effect on productivity and … productivity is bidirectional, while increased profit leads to more capital but not the vice versa. …

performance from R&D and innovation. A comparison is made between the innovation and productivity of foreign owned enterprises, of … productivity. …

-2000. We find that foreign privatized firms have realized larger productivity gains than all types of domestic firms and that …-specific knowledge. Foreign greenfields have the highest average labour productivity, while foreign privatizations show the largest … productivity increase. …

transformation pressure generalizes the idea that productivity growth in firms is promoted by intense competition, cost pushes and … or the stimulation of individual creativity when firms are put under real pressure. But productivity growth is not always …