Productivity differences across firms and countries are surprisingly large and persistent. Recent research reveals that the country-level distributions of productivity and quality of management are strikingly similar, suggesting that management practices may play a key role in the determination...

The goal of this paper is to present a formal model of firm innovation that simultaneously analyzes innovation factors characteristic to the Schumpeterian strand of industrial organization literature and the know-how strand. Corporate R&D intensity serves here as an input measure of firm...

This paper deals with the first results of some research into the field of Business-to-Business, involving some processes of subcontracting implemented at an international level by SMEs operating in a high tech sector (PCBs). Particular attention has been placed on the prospects for development...