‐country productivity. Design/methodology/approach – A panel data set for 15 Taiwanese manufacturing industries over the period between 1991 … and 2007 is employed for a model in which productivity is regressed on a measure of O‐FDI. Findings – The study finds no … significant positive or negative effect of O‐FDI on productivity. Breaking down the data by location of the investment, however …

States that companies are under increased pressure in today′s economic climate to boost the productivity of their … managing marketing for productivity entails the management of four key areas: strategy management, cost management, asset … management and organization management. Concludes that marketers must be more concerned with productivity in order to sustain …

improvements in worker productivity have driven companies to seek ways to enhance worker productivity. The limiting factor, however …

production. Estimates the contribution of changes in Ireland’s sectoral employment structure to labour productivity convergence … time as a significant source of labour productivity convergence. Ireland’s labour productivity convergence was 0.3 per cent …

growth determinant. Public capital, it is argued, has a positive effect on private sector output, productivity and capital … government investment on private sector productivity. Second, uses modern time‐series techniques to test the hypothesis. Employs …

New evidence is presented on the degree of aggregate and sectoral labour productivity convergence among 11 EU countries … than sectoral convergence. Aggregate productivity converged at 0.9 percent per annum, with agriculture and manufacturing … percent and 66 percent of the overall rate of aggregate productivity convergence among the EU countries over the period …

Examines the causality issue, in a Granger‐temporal causal sense, between price level and productivity in a bivariate … (VECM). The empirical results suggest that a bivariate relationship between inflation and productivity is spurious, as the … unit root pre‐tests that account for oil shock episodes show that inflation and productivity are integrated of a different …

manufacturing productivity using a panel data at the disaggregated industry level from 1998 to 2008. The results indicate that … foreign workers do make productive contribution to manufacturing productivity, but it is much lower as compared to local …. Findings – The results indicate that foreign workers do make productive contribution to manufacturing productivity; but it is …

productivity and efficiency of small-scale and marginal wheat farmers can be improved so that their households may benefit from … the productivity and efficiency of wheat farmers in the Punjab, Pakistan to increase the health and well-being of the …