Research points to a productivity gap between the UK and some of its majorcompetitors such as France, Germany and the US. To close this gap, it is widelyaccepted that the UK must move towards competing on value and innovation ratherthan on low costs. So how can the UK boost innovation? How can...

A productivity gap has been identified between the UK andits leading international competitors such as the US, France,Germany and Japan. The adoption of leading edge workingpractices, it is argued, can help UK firms close that gap.But the UK currently lags behind its major competitors in this...

Improving the competitiveness of the UK economyis a national priority. Recent studies – the PorterReport1 and the Department of Trade and Industry(DTI) Innovation Review2 show that the UKlags behind its major competitors in terms ofproductivity. There is a growing consensus thatclosing the...

Dieser empirische Beitrag befasst sich mit effizienter Arbeitsorganisation im Verarbeitenden Gewerbe und untersucht schwerpunktmäßig die Produktivitätswirkungen einer Reorganisation. Zum Ausgang werden theoretische Arbeiten der arbeitsökonomischen Reorganisationsforschung genommen.

Vorliegendes Arbeitspapier untersucht die Eignung eines hedonisti-schen Modells zur Bewertung des Nutzens bei Organisationsprojekten.