Social capital is an important network based intangible asset with a potential for maximizing individual and team productivity in a social setting like software development. It is important to investigate intervening factors that challenge software development productivity. In this paper, the authors mixed method approach harnesses a structural equation model (SEM) for its quantitative part to ...

......................................................................................................................................... iii Executive Summary.........................................................................................................................v I. Literature Review of Studies on Productivity in the Coal Mining Industry ........................1 A. Anton (198...

this study analyses the relationship of intellectual capital with financial performance measures of indian textile sector for a period of 10 years ranging from 2002 to 2012. for the study, corporate annual reports, especially the profit and loss accounts and balance sheets of the selected companies for the relevant years have been used from cmie prowess database. value added intellectual coeffi...

Three features of China’s trade patterns suggest that elements beyond factor abundance explain its export performance. The high penetration in world markets of labourintensive products has been accompanied by: (i) a high share in exports of productivityadvanced foreign-owned enterprises (FIEs), (ii) a high penetration of FIEs in labourintensive sectors, and (iii) a relative high sophistication ...

The paper presents a theory of the industrial transformation amongst sectors along the balanced growth path equilibrium, using endogenous growth theory. Allowing only a slight upward trend in the productivity of the human capital sector, combined with ascending degrees of human capital shares of sectoral output, in say, agriculture, manufacturing and services, output gradually shifts relatively...

The paper investigates the role of wealth distributions and financial institutions of an economy on within-industry firm heterogeneity in productivity. If there is no financial imperfection so that entrepreneurs are not constrained in borrowing, all of them make the same, optimal, productivity-enhancing investment. As a result, the industry will be composed of many homogeneous firms. If there e...

Social programs can reduce productivity and growth as they inadvertently generate perverse incentives for workers and firms. The core hypothesis is that these programs segment the labor market, tax formal salaried employment and subsidize informal salaried and non-salaried employment. Larger than optimal self-employment and employment by informal firms lowers aggregate labor productivity. In tu...

In this research we model and estimate the effects on productivity downstream from information technology (IT) investments made upstream. Specifically, we examine how one industry’s productivity is affected by the IT capital stock of its suppliers. These supplier-driven IT spillovers occur because, due to competition in the supplying industry, quality benefits from suppliers’ IT investments can...