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Businesses are crucial to solving
the UK’s productivity problems.

Research

Organisational Capital

Organisational Capital

Stagnant long-term productivity growth in UK firms has been linked to low levels of investment, failures in technology diffusion, short termism, and a general decline in business dynamism. As the UK seeks to develop a more activist industrial strategy, key questions arise on barriers to entry, obstacles to innovation in SMEs, and the resilience of supply chains.

Theme lead

Professor Nigel Driffield

Co-Investigators

Professor Stephen Roper
Dr Irina Surdu
Professor Christopher Warhurst
Professor Elvira Uyarra
Professor Mark Hart

Theme Paper

Understanding Productivity: Organisational Capital perspectives

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Of chickens and eggs: Exporting, innovation novelty and productivity

Why are exporting firms more productive? Are productive firms export or is it exporting that leads to higher productivity?

Is there a link between Small Business Leadership and Productivity?

Leadership quality has been proposed as an important explanation for differences in the productivity performance between so-called ‘frontier’ and ‘laggard’ firms.

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The UK’s Foreign Investment Position Post Brexit And Covid: Briefing 1

Tracking the changing patterns of inward investment in the UK as we emerge from Covid-19, and as trading relations with the rest of the world become more certain.