This paper investigates the impact of foreign acquisition on domestic firm productivity. In contrast to previous … changes. It finds evidence of significant positive productivity effects following acquisition by US and European … multinationals, at least in technology importing industries. Higher productivity gains are achieved the more competitive the industry …

This paper examines the convergence process of industrial productivity between Chinese regions. Both σ- and β …- and β-convergence methods fail to detect productivity convergence over the whole sample period, although they suggest … to scale constraint, show that productivity gaps between Chinese regions declined during 1985-1999 with a rate of …

Current research focuses on assessing productivity, cost, and delays for concrete batch plant (CBP) operations using …, productivity, and price/m3 for the CBP. Two ANN models were designated to represent the CBP process considering many CBP variables … cycle time, cost of delays, delivery cost, productivity, and price/m3. The ANN outputs have been validated to show the ANN …

mitigating these potential negative outcomes of lower labour productivity rates and higher project costs. This paper explores the … impacts of planned and unplanned schedule compression on labour productivity. Additional impacts of schedule compression …

Poor productivity of construction workers is one of the major causes of cost overruns and schedule slippages in … construction projects. Anecdotal evidence suggests that workers' attitudes towards higher productivity may not be limited to purely … compared to each other to ascertain the factors that influence productivity. The factors and their relative importance …