This paper analyzes research efficiency at the industry level in manufacturing for 13 European member and four … highest efficiency scores on average in total manufacturing. The main industries that are at the technology frontier are those …

This paper investigates to what extent the R&D behavior of manufacturing companies was influenced by the 2008/09 crisis …. Based on a broad official data set for German manufacturing companies, only a few companies that engaged in R&D during 2008 …

This paper addresses the relationship between the utilization of temporary agency workers by firms and their … competitiveness measured by unit labor costs, using a rich, newly built, data set of German manufacturing enterprises. The analysis is … the competitiveness of firms. …

IT investment in any sectors, it does significantly improve labor productivity for firms in manufacturing and in …The advent of cloud computing promises to improve the way firms utilize IT solutions. Firms are expected to replace …, cloud usage is expected to increase the productivity of firms, as it allows them to quickly customize the IT they require to …

shows that firms that increased material inputs relative to internal labor costs performed better in terms of gross … operating surplus than other firms. However, firms that increased external services relative to internal labor costs, thus … firms tend to overestimate the benefits accruing from outsourcing of services previously provided internally. …