relationships between corporate competitiveness strategy, innovation, efficiency, productivity growth and outsourcing to be …This paper presents a generalized production model based on the knowledge production function. The model allows the … analysis. Third, stochastic frontier production function and factor productivity analysis are used to estimate the efficiency …

This paper serves as another complementary link in a chain of a rather limited number of investigations in the R&D-innovation-productivity … relationship within service industries. Innovation has been found to be a major contributor to productivity growth in manufacturing … evidence that the reported weak rate of productivity growth in knowledge intensive services can be explained by a low …

productivity. The relationship is further shaped by the sector environment as well as intrinsic characteristics of the goods and …

estimates for an extended production function framework reveal significant productivity effects of ICT in the German service … productivity differentials between firms …

servitization on firm productivity. This paper concludes with policy implications for servitization …

The rise of knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) may be considered as one of the decisive trends of economic … subsystem approach to input-output matrix analysis to study the vertical integration of knowledge-based business services into … manufacturing sectors. To date, companies increasingly rely on outside innovation for new products and processes and have become …

The slower productivity growth in Canada relative to that experienced in the United States in the second half of the … development. A key issue is whether this slower productivity growth is broadly-based, which would imply a societal … productivity growth in Canada and the United States in the 1990s. They find that the productivity growth gap in the 1990s at both …

innovation experience, the results further highlight the important role of knowledge provided by skilled employees and unobserved …This paper investigates whether firms innovate persistently or discontinuously over time using an innovation panel data … set on German manufacturing and service firms for the period 1994-2002. We find that innovation behaviour is permanent at …

innovation by using a sample of 108 Tunisian service firms. Specifically, we are interested in the domestic outsourcing of … innovation. This suggests that outsourcing allows Tunisian service firms to create value, increase flexibility and improve the …