This paper estimates productivity performance of India’s energy intensive industries in terms of total factor productivity growth for the entire period, 1979-80 to 2003-04. The productivity performance has been judged in view of translog indices under three input framework-material, labour and...

This analytical paper attempts to assess and analyse trend growth in the rate of capacity utilisation (CU) in India's glass sector at aggregate level over a period from 1979-1980 to 2003-2004. In this study, optimal output is defined as the minimum point on the firm's short-run average total...

Working capital management is a vital issue in financial decision making since it is a part of investment in asset and it directly affects the liquidity and profitability of the company. The study tries to investigate the relationship between working capital management components and the...

Abstract: This study seeks to measure and analyze econometrically the performance of energy intensive industries in India in view of economic capacity utilization and total factor productivity growth as well as partial factor productivity growth at aggregate level from 1979-80 to 2003-04.The...

This paper investigates Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and efficiency growth pattern for India's chemical industry for the period, 1992-1993 to 2007-2008 at subsector level. Malmquist Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has been used to estimate different performance measures, viz. productivity...

This study attempts to examine the influence of six determinants on capital structure - asset collateral, life of firm, business risk, growth rate, profitability, non-tax shield - of listed aluminium companies of India for the 17 years from 1991-1992 to 2007-2008. The result reveals that the...

The purpose of this study is to develop a methodology in measuring productivity growth by decomposing it into technical change and technical efficiency change in India's paper industry. The prime objective of this article is to assess the impact of liberalization on productivity growth of...