The Role of Innovation and Management Practices in Determining Firm Productivity

Wiebke Bartz-Zuccala (), Pierre Mohnen and Helena Schweiger
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Comparative Economic Studies, 2018, vol. 60, issue 4, No 2, 502-530

Abstract: Abstract In this paper, we compare the impacts of management practices and innovation on productivity, using data from a unique firm-level survey covering 30 countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia in the period 2011–2014. We estimate a structural model linking productivity to innovation activities and management practices. Results suggest that both returns to innovation and returns to management practices are important drivers of productivity. However, productivity in lower-income economies is affected to a larger extent by management practices than by innovation, while the opposite holds in higher-income economies. These results imply that firms operating in less favourable business environments can reap large productivity gains by improving the quality of management practices, before engaging in innovation through imitating and adapting foreign technologies.

Keywords: Innovation; Management practices; Productivity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M2 O1 O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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