Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a methodology to study profit vs non-profit seeking firms usefully to compare corporate performance. It aims to apply the methodology to measure if state vs non-state firms with different objectives are comparable in performance. If relevant,...

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to estimate wheat productivity in Bangladesh and forecast the future expected population and food requirements in the country by 2010. Design/methodology/approach – This paper reaches the objectives using total factors productivity approach, Box Jenkins...

Purpose – To explain the sources of jobless growth in Poland, the country undergoing economic system transition and integration with the European Union (EU). Design/methodology/approach – The research used the Harrod-Domar model together with an interpretation proposed by Barro and...

In their utilization of R&D (information) output, different sectors of a heterogeneous industry display different reaction times. This paper analyzes the effects of this temporal heterogeniety on output and productivity for an extended version of the Baumol-Wolff model. Results include...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to investigate the driving forces of China's recent rapid economic growth and its sustainability in the future. Design/methodology/approach – A stochastic production frontier approach is employed in order to investigate regional productivity...

Purpose – Most investors' retirement portfolios have inter-period cash inflows. The standard time-weighted mean return (or geometric mean return) is generally used to report returns on investors' retirement portfolios. The purpose of this paper is to examine the standard time-weighted mean...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the total factor productivity (TFP) change in the Greek cooperative banking industry over the period 2000-2005. Design/methodology/approach – The paper employs the Malmquist index and estimate two models, one based on the intermediation...

Purpose – South Africa is a developing country, and within this context, it is essential to be economically competitive and proactive. Various sources reveal that the national productivity has been traditionally low, and continues to remain low. Within the context of the international arena,...

Purpose – The aim of this study is to empirically investigate the effect of real wages on labour productivity in Malaysia's manufacturing sector using annual data from 1980 to 2009. Design/methodology/approach – This study uses the Johansen cointegration test to examine the presence of...