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Research:  text only  cep home page  about the cep  contact us  research   -explaining    productivity & growth    in Europe, America    & Asia key research areas:   --management &      organisational      practices.   --economic      growth &      & environment.   --information &      communication      technologies   --innovation.   --globalisation.  publications  events & calendar  staff directory  support & services  news & highlights   Explaining Productivity and Growth in Europe, America and Asia Programme Overview The programme director is Dr. Tobias Kretschmer. Room G509/R4Z9a, Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 6041, Email: t.kretschmer@lse.ac.uk This project is co-funded by the Anglo-German Foundation: This joint programme between the LSE's Centre for Economic Performance and ZEW, Mannheim, will investigate why European productivity growth has been so disappointing over the last decade. This is a key issue for UK and German governments hoping to deliver the growth essential for funding improved public services and increasing employment. Our hypothesis is that management practices, information technologies and innovation play a central role in this given the evidence from analyses of the US "productivity miracle" since 1995. The program will also investigate the environmental impact of this race for productivity growth. Is there an inevitable trade-off between higher productivity and a deteriorating environment, or as we hypothesise, many "win-win" policy scenarios in which environmental efficiency can be combined with productivity improvements? To address these issues we will build an unprecedented international database on management, environmental, and technological practices across firms, industries and countries. Lack of robust data has meant that many of the central questions around sustainable growth have only been addressed - if at all - piecemeal at a national level. With this major new database, and using the latest empirical technology to identify causal relationships, we will uncover the factors driving productivity and environmental practices. This will enable us to identify key policy levers for governments, and highlight central areas for ongoing academic research. Projects Management and Organisational Practices and their Impact on Productivity and Growth Economic Growth and Environmental Consequences Information and Communication Technologies Innovation Globalisation

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