The paper addresses the relevancy of networking activities and R&D as main drivers of productivity performance and … performance. The complementarity with networking is a consequential step. Networking by itself cannot thus play a role in … networking are to be sustained and favoured. our evidence suggests that R&D may be a single main driver of performance. Since R …

shares and the relation to their respective relative technological performance and to their or innovative performance are … investigated with productivity levels as a proxy for technological performance and productivity changes as proxy for innovative … performance. …

performance of an emerging new technology, digital mobile telecommunication (2G). Our empirical exploration provides a more …

status. Indeed, people increase their effort when they are simply informed about their relative performance, and people pay … both to sabotage others' output and to artificially increase their own relative performance. In addition, stronger group …

This paper investigates to which extent tough competition impacts on the macroeconomic performance of countries. The … competition to macroeconomic performance. We then added these competition indicators to an equation relating macro performance to …

been ignored by temporary work agencies (TWAs), they can improve their performance by training temporary workers …