International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management: Volume 57 Issue 6

Innovation and enterprise: the foundations of developing productivity

John Heap

This paper aims to examine issues of government policy in creating an infrastructure that supports innovation and expertise.

MPM's productivity improvement project approach in provinces

Nurettin Peşkircioğlu

The aim of this paper is to summarise the characteristics of, and results from, a large‐scale project to promote productivity improvement throughout Turkey's provinces.

High‐involvement innovation practices at Finnish workplaces

Tuomo Alasoini, Asko Heikkilä, Elise Ramstad, Pekka Ylöstalo

This paper seeks to examine the dissemination of high‐involvement innovation practices at Finnish workplaces and to consider how their adoption can be promoted by means of a…

Process performance measurement in manufacturing organizations

Jaroslav Nenadál

The purpose of this paper is to examine the weaknesses which result in the concept of process performance measurement being ineffectively translated into effective measurement and…

Social innovation, the new challenge for Europe

Frank Pot, Fietje Vaas

This study sets out to describe activities within The Netherlands Centre for Social Innovation, one of the earliest national bodies to promote and develop the concept of social…

Competitiveness of Visegrad countries

Anna Kadeřábková

This paper aims to examine issues surrounding the competitiveness of the Visegrad countries that have recently joined the European Union, and in particular, to analyse a set of…

The future of manufacturing industry in Europe

Risto Kuivanen

The purpose of this paper is to examine the challenges facing European manufacturing industry in an age of increasing global competitiveness and to explore models for survival.

Special issue on Interventionist research

Foreword

John Heap