The impact of economic liberalization reforms on the productive performances of manufacturing firms remains a contentious issue in the literature. This paper attempts to contribute to the debate by empirically estimating productivity growth of Bangladesh food manufacturing using firm level data...

In the small-scale enterprises, the entrepreneurs and managers are often one and the same. This paper attempts to estimate the entrepreneurial competence in small-scale enterprises decomposing into entrepreneurial ability and managerial efficiency using the frontier production function. The...

Because many entrepreneurs who launch small-scale enterprises also manage them, it is useful to estimate entrepreneurial competence while differentiating entrepreneurial abilities from managerial skills. An analytical model of entrepreneurship for small-scale industries is presented. Integral to...