... improvements Productivity measurement Canada Bottom‐up approach Case studies The steady incline in oil prices triggered from the September 11, 2001 attack combined with the recent credit crisis and downturns in financial markets has driven organizations to re‐evaluate their manufacturing processes...

... of just over 4 per cent. From 1973 to 2000 productivity slowed to 1.6 per cent annually. From 2000 to 2009, productivity growth slowed to 0.7 per cent per year (Drummond and Bentley, 2010). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Shadow banking Canada United States of America Labour...

... in Ontario, Canada, over the period 2003‐2006. The MPI was decomposed into efficiency change and technological change. Efficiency change was further decomposed into pure efficiency change and scale efficiency change. A bootstrapping technique was also used to obtain confidence intervals for the output...

...”, and working capital management practices associated with the “current assets” component. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Performance management Business practices Small to medium‐sized enterprises Performance management systems Working practices Canada Economic value added...

... of a nation's living standard or its level of real income over long periods of time, it is important to better understand the sources of productivity growth. In Canada, TFP growth is the major contributing factor (relative to changes in capital intensity) to labour productivity growth, particularly...