Purpose ? This paper aims to contribute to the debate on the drivers of the productivity gap that exists between the UK and its major international competitors. Design/methodology/approach ? From the macro perspective the paper explores the quantitative evidence on the productivity...

This paper contributes to the literature on the intra-firm diffusion of innovations by investigating the factors that affect the firm?s decision to adopt and use sets of complementary innovations. We define complementary innovations those innovations whose joint use generates super additive...

Purpose: Using a sample of US firms more likely to be affected by agency problems, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between corporate value and financial policies and to study whether credit market freedom (CMF) affects this relationship. Design/methodology/approach:...

This paper presents a simple profitability-based decision model to show how synergistic gains generated by the joint adoption of complementary innovations may influence the firm's adoption decision. For this purpose a weighted index of intra-firm diffusion is built to investigate empirically the...

There is no doubt that management practices are linked to the productivity and performance of a company. However, research findings are mixed. This paper provides a multi-disciplinary review of the current evidence of such a relationship and offers suggestions for further exploration...

This paper presents a simple profitability based decision model to show how synergistic gains generated by the joint adoption of complementary innovations may influence the firm’s adoption decision. For this purpose a weighted index of intra-firm diffusion is built to investigate empirically...