Various stakeholders are increasingly encouraging companies from the real economy to adopt measures facilitating their transition towards carbon neutrality. In this context, companies are expected to implement forward-looking strategies and climate-related reporting practices using scenario...

In this paper, I introduce new estimates of Anglo-Italian labour productivity levels in manufacturing during the late 1930s. The relatively high level of detail of the industrial censuses of the two countries, allows to retrieve also input data, enabling the use of the more sophisticated double...

This paper investigates the effects of competition laws and regulations on manufacturing firms productivity in Latin American countries (LACs), addressing a gap in existing research. Leveraging firm-level panel data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys across 14 LAC economies and competition...

The transition to a low-carbon economy requires an expansion in the production of clean energy technologies. Recent shifts in the European Union's industrial policy aim to boost local manufacturing and attract clean technology production to Europe. This paper uses a data-driven scenario approach...

The special topic analyses the results of the questions on investment included in the October-November surveys for the manufacturing and services sectors, enquiring about business investment in 2024, as well as plans for 2025. On aggregate in the EU, managers' assessment of the change in...

The overarching objective of the study was to assess the state of play and recent developments in key Net-Zero technology manufacturing industries in the EU Member States and support the Commission's work for the preparation of the European Semester, the Progress Report on Competitiveness of...

The study provides an overview of the state of play and recent developments in selected Net-Zero technology manufacturing industries in the EU Member States. Besides manufacturing, industry and trade data, the study summarises the regulatory framework and supporting policies in the Member...

The study provides an overview of the state of play and recent developments in selected Net-Zero technology manufacturing industries in the EU Member States. Besides manufacturing, industry and trade data, the study summarises the regulatory framework and supporting policies in the Member...

This study examines the impact of agile practices on supply chain performance measurements in manufacturing firms. Following COVID-19, there have been operational and logistics disruptions in manufacturing firms and supply chains worldwide. We study the link between supply chain performance and...

This study examines the relationship between foreign affiliates and labour productivity in the supply chains of construction and manufacturing sectors. Labour productivity is calculated using EUKLEMS & INTANProd database of the Luiss Lab of European Economics, while foreign affiliates abroad...

Technological advancements are forcing firms to innovate quickly to sustain a competitive advantage. However, despite theoretical arguments and empirical findings, the mechanisms that influence the speed of innovation and firms' international performance are surprisingly unexplored in the...

In recent years, the management research has increasingly discussed service transition. However, studies have not used sufficiently granular empirical data for valid quantitative evaluation of service-intensive strategies by, for example, examining the possible effects of resource slack on firm...

Environmental regulations have been extensively studied in the context of advocating green development. As one of the most stringent laws in history, the new Environmental Protection Law (EPL) of 2015 has greatly affected the production and development of enterprises. In this context, and in the...

We study the effect of climate risk on how firms organize their supply chains. We use transaction-level data on U.S. manufacturing imports to construct a novel measure of input sourcing risk based on the historical volatility of ocean shipping times. Our measure isolates the unexpected component...

This study examines the relationship between immigration and firmlevel innovation in the Finnish manufacturing sector. The analysis leverages unique matched data, including employees' immigration status, firm-level patenting, process and product innovation activities, and innovation inputs...

With the growth of the digital economy and environmental concerns, an increasing number of manufacturing firms are leveraging digitalization to advance their green innovation and sustainable development. Although previous studies have examined the impact of digitalization on green innovation,...

This study explores the impact of COVID-19-related supply chain disruptions on manufacturing firms, focusing on external risks: demand, environmental, and supply. Our literature review reveals the general lack of comprehensive disruption plans and exposes the vulnerabilities in manufacturing...

Rising energy and CO2 prices are driving industrial companies to focus increasingly on energy efficiency and flexibility to remain competitive. Besides technical improvements, smart energy services like nonintrusive load monitoring (NILM) are promising approaches to increasing a company's energy...

Building upon a multisectoral framework in light of the Kuznetsian paradigm, this paper analyses the relationship between structural transformation and income inequality. Empirical evidence is drawn using a large census dataset consisting of more than 22 million individuals from Mexico and the...

This study aims to investigate the impact of business intelligence readiness (BIR), innovative supply chain process integration (ISCPI), and agile innovative products (AIPs) on the sustainability of green supply chain performance (SGSCP) in manufacturing companies (MFs) in growing Middle Eastern...

We study the heterogeneous pass-through of monetary policy across firms with different labor shares. The goal is to obtain evidence on a labor-intensity transmission channel that should in fact be operating for other kinds of demand shocks as well. Our basic idea is that labor is special: unlike...