management practices in recent years. Inspite of such efforts, employees indiscipline, politicised labor unions, low individual … productivity, and unsatisfactory enterprise performance are some of the commonly observed realities in most of the organizations … argue for developing a systemic rather than piecemeal approach to the study of human resource management (HRM) practices …

economic or productivity growth between the US and other advanced countries has remained even in the early 2000s. Since then …, many economists have paid attention to the complementary role in intangible assets in productivity growth, that is, they … started to believe that without intangible assets, the IT assets does not contribute to productivity growth at the firm and …

This paper analyses the technical efficiency problem in Gansu Province, West China, using firm-level cross … technical efficiency; third, there is no evidence that ownership affects the technical efficiency of firms in Gansu province …; and fourth, bigger firms tend to operate with more technical efficiency than smaller firms. …

This paper examines the efficiency of the large scale manufacturing sector of Pakistan using the stochastic production …-digit PSIC. The results show that there has been some improvement in the efficiency of the large scale manufacturing sector … industrial groups have gained in terms of technical efficiency, some industries have shown deterioration in their efficiency …

to study how improvements can be made in the productivity of this sector. This study attempts to estimate the technical … efficiency a measure of how well inputs are being used towards producing output of about 250 Indian districts in 1990-91. It … followed by fertilizer; (ii) the mean efficiency of raising agricultural output is 79 per cent and therefore there is a scope …

The efficiency of 119 electric cooperatives in the Philippines from 1990-2002 is analyzed using a stochastic frontier … model augmented with spatial-temporal terms, addressing the underestimation of technical efficiency usually encountered … included in the inefficiency equation provided that the spatial distance measure substantially captures the efficiency …

, low productivity, lack of credit at reasonable rates, natural calamities and unavailability of proper extension services … could be possible by increasing input growth, technical progress and improvement in technical efficiency. In order to … function model. Results of the study indicate that the efficiency has declined over time for all the states and the average …

The stochastic frontier model with heterogeneous technical efficiency explained by exogenous variables is augmented … simultaneous maximum likelihood estimation of all parameters is exhibited. The technical efficiency estimates are comparable to … improve estimates of technical efficiency in a production frontier that is usually biased downwards. …

In this study, we attempt to quantify the effect of improved population health on technical efficiency in agricultural … district infant mortality rate) as a determinant of (in) efficiency in a second stage, controlling for a range of other … irrigation, are associated with significant increases in overall technical efficiency, and that a good portion of healths effect …

about the next technological phase and the efficiency parameters during the current phase. Growing population as well as …