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Happiness and productivity [PDF]
Some firms say they care about the happiness and ‘well-being’ of their employees. But are such claims hype? Or might they be scientific good sense? This study provides evidence that happiness makes people more productive.
Oswald, Andrew J.+2 more
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Service Products and Productization [PDF]
Abstract Many services are difficult to understand and communicate, and as a result, difficult to position, differentiate, and sell. While important, understanding services as well-defined products has hardly received research attention although doing so offers a host of potential benefits.
Wirtz, Jochen+4 more
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RESOURCE PRODUCTIVITIES AND PRODUCTION FUNCTIONS [PDF]
This paper is mainly intended to provide a vehicle for discussion of recent research in measuring resource productivity using what has come to be known in agricultural economics as the Cobb-Douglas approach. I have attempted to draw together most of the points that have been raised by others together with some comments.
Frank G. Jarrett
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Aggregate Productivity and the Productivity of Aggregates [PDF]
Explanations of procyclical productivity play a key role in a variety of business-cycle models. Most of these models, however, explain this procyclicality within a representative-firm paradigm. This procedure is misleading.
John G. Fernald, Susanto Basu
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Products and Productivity* [PDF]
AbstractWhen firms make decisions about which product to manufacture at a more disaggregated level than observed in the data, measured firm productivity reflects both characteristics of the firm and attributes of the products that are non‐randomly chosen by the firm.
Stephen J. Redding+6 more
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The formation of databases of digitized vegetation relevés and the publication of content about them promote cooperation between researchers in solving problems of biodiversity analysis, the exchange of the used data, and, thus, the increase in research ...
T.Yu. Braslavskaya+3 more
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QUALITY OF TREE LITTER AS AN INFORMATIVE INDICATOR OF FUNCTIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF FORESTS
Relevance and goals. In the context of global climate change, the climate-regulating function of forests deserves special attention. There is still no functional classification of forests according to the effectiveness of carbon accumulation function ...
E. V. Basova+9 more
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Current and historical fire regimes of the Pechora-ilych nature reserve and its surroundings [PDF]
Recurring fires have a significant impact on the dynamics and functioning of forest ecosystems. The fire regime determines conditions of occurrence, spread and long-term consequences of forest fires. A significant change in the fire regime in the natural
A.O. Kharitonova+2 more
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IV All-Russian scientific conference with international participation “SCIENTIFIC BASIS FOR SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT” [PDF]
The work of the IV All-Russian scientific conference with international participation “Scientific foundations for sustainable forest management” is analyzed. Plenary and sectional reports were presented at five thematic sections and meetings of two round
A.V. Gornov+2 more
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Product Complementarity in Production: The By-product Case [PDF]
The product-product relationship has been a traditional subject of most production economics and farm management courses for the past two decades. Although the traditional examples of product-product optimization have come primarily from the agricultural production sector (e.g., legume-corn rotations and crop-livestock combinations), the concept is ...
Beattie, Bruce R.+2 more
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