Manufacturing firms increasingly focus on services. This trend is evident in their composition of input, in …. Overall, the study provides new firm-level evidence of the role of services as inputs in manufacturing. …-house production and seemingly also in total sale. Firms' services intensity may affect their productivity, and thereby competitiveness …

Manufacturing firms increasingly focus on services. This trend is evident in their composition of input, in …. Overall, the study provides new firm-level evidence of the role of services as inputs in manufacturing. …-house production and seemingly also in total sale. Firms’ services intensity may affect their productivity, and thereby competitiveness …

This study reports results of a nationwide survey on overall working capital policy of small manufacturing firms. The … survey instrument used was a modified version of the 1980 Smith and Sell study [18] on large firms. A detailed 36-question … form queried firms on their overall working capital policies as well as on the management of the components of working …

This paper employs a sample of 3,525 manufacturing firms in Italy to estimate the impact of investments in Information … & Communication Technology (ICT) on firms' productivity. The results, which are confirmed by separate estimations for individual … paradigm. This is because, like with electricity, they influence the productivity of firms in many industries, including …