of actual to desired level of employment. Productivity growth is defined in terms of a shift in the labor requirement …

. The catch-up factor is defined as the ratio of actual to desired level of employment. Productivity growth is then defined …

analysis. Third, stochastic frontier production function and factor productivity analysis are used to estimate the efficiency … relationships between corporate competitiveness strategy, innovation, efficiency, productivity growth and outsourcing to be … and factor productivity growth at the firm level. Fourth, the causal relationships between the five variables of interest …

, efficiency and productivity growth in manufacturing and services. The objective is to provide a thorough and up-to-date survey … that provides a significant discussion on data, as well as on the core methods of measuring efficiency and productivity …. Finally, to promote useful research, a number of factors important to the analysis of outsourcing, efficiency and productivity …