This paper uses Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) data to examine changes in labour productivity, real gross domestic product (GDP), real gross domestic income (GDI), economic aggregates and relative economic growth over time. Real GDI combines changes in production...

This paper asks whether synergies or managerial discipline operates in different ways across small versus large plants to affect the likelihood of mergers. Our findings indicate that those characteristics which provide the type of synergies upon which ownership changes rely are important factors...

Le present article porte sur les caracteristiques du secteur canadien des services specialises de design.

Rapid technological change and an emerging global marketplace underscore the need for firms to innovate in order to succeed. The 1997 Survey of Innovation was the first to look at innovation in selected knowledge-based and information-intensive services industries. This article presents...

Les progres technologiques et les modifications ayant touche le contexte de reglementation ont entraine une convergence des secteurs des telecommunications, de la radiodiffusion et des services informatiques. L'autoroute de l'information offre diverses options a partir du domicile, entre autre,...

Leasing, rather than buying, is ingreasingly becoming an attractive option for both consumers and businesses. This article looks at the industries that rent or lease: automobiles and trucks; and machinery and equipment. In some instances, the focus turns to the sub-industries comprising these...

Parmi les nombreux changements qui ont marque le commerce de detail au cours du dernier siecle, il convient de souligner l'arrivee et l'expansion relativement recente des magasins a grande surface. L'etude presentee ici determine l apart de marche que les magasins a grande surface , par rapport...