dual labour market * the relative stagnancy of Europe versus the USA in terms of productivity levels and unemployment …

Kafouros theoretically and empirically examines the impacts of innovation and scientific knowledge on the productivity …'s productivity, and how multinationals build on external inventions, ideas and knowledge. The results confirm that not all firms can … innovation and firm productivity performance, the book also investigates a number of additional issues including the costs of R …

conflict and conflict management, this Handbook provides guidance to improve human interactions at the individual, dyad, team …

The definition and measurement of productivity in services raises important conceptual, methodological and strategic … problems. This book aims to provide a critical review of the main debates on productivity in the domain of services. The first … part examines the theoretical consequences of services specificities on the concept of productivity and reviews the …

1. Introduction : what is the New Economy? / Dennis W. Jansen -- 2. Projecting productivity growth : lessons from the … multifactor productivity in US service industries / Jack E. Triplett and Barry P. Bosworth -- 4. The New Economy and the …

This book explores the relationship between exports and productivity. Whilst a body of research indicates that … exporters have superior productivity to non-exporters, received wisdom suggests that this is because productive firms became …