... Productivity 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...

... banking Canada United States of America Labour productivity Financial innovation Velocity of money Banking Economic growth That situation has changed since 1980 as the Shadow Banking system increases the velocity of money in an economy in a meaningful way by the “originate to distribute...

... 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 identify sources of improvement. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Performance management Business practices Small to medium‐sized enterprises Performance management systems Working practices Canada Economic value added The paper is organized as follows. The second section...

... 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...