Corporate Staff Identity as a Factor of Increasing Labor Productivity

Corporate identity, corporate branding and corporate marketing

Abstract Outlines 15 explanations for the fog which has enveloped the nascent domains of corporate identity and corporate marketing. However, the fog surrounding the area has a silver lining. This is because the fog has, unwittingly, led to the emergence of rich disciplinary, philosophical as well as `̀ national’’, schools of thought. In their composite, these approaches have the potential to fo...

Trends in hospital labor and total factor productivity, 1981-86

The per-case payment rates of Medicare's prospective payment system are annually updated. As one element of the update factor, Congress required consideration of changes in hospital productivity. In this article, calculations of annual changes in labor and total factor productivity during 1981-86 of hospitals eligible for prospective payment are presented using several output and input variants...

Capital, Labor, and Productivity

IN A PREVIOUS PAPER I explored two suggestions about how to understand time-series and cross-country variations in measured total factor productivity growth: increases in the labor force might slow technological change and increases in capital might speed it up. 1 Neither suggestion was new. The conjecture about the effect of labor dates back, at least, to attempts to explain the divergence in ...

The Corporate Secret Identity

A Framework for Estimating Labor Productivity Frontiers

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