large number of low‐efficiency, small‐scale farms, and productivity inequality between small and large farms keeps … between backyard, small‐scale, medium‐scale and large‐scale dairy farms in China over the period between 2004 and 2008 … in productivity, and the productivity difference is explained by technology and technical efficiency. Practical …

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to investigate the driving forces of China's recent rapid economic growth and … order to investigate regional productivity performances of Chinese provinces over the period 1994‐2006. Findings – Despite … the general concern of widening regional inequalities in China, the findings show a striking trend of convergence among …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the technical efficiency of wheat and paddy rice processing in China … efficiency. Studies on China's technical efficiency of flour and rice processing are scarce. This paper fills this gap. Design …/methodology/approach – With a unique set of firm‐level survey data collected by China's State Statistical Bureau, this study adopts a stochastic …

farm production in a province of China. Design/methodology/approach – The analysis uses panel data for the years 2004 … force is 45, after which efficiency declines. Practical implications – Aging of China's rural labor force may affect … efficiency and productivity in crop production. Agricultural policies may need to pay more attention to the aging of the …

Purpose – At the center of apple production province in China, how to increase apple per unit yield and to improve …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to estimate the China’s outward FDI efficiency and it determinants in 69 countries … FDI analysis, and then constructing a frontier regression model to assess the China’s outward FDI efficiency and it … determinants in countries along the Belt and Road. Findings Regarding the core gravity parameter estimates, China’s outward FDI was …

Uses a model of technical change embodied in capital equipment to analyse average labour productivity growth …. Determinants of productivity growth identified in this analysis are: (1) the rate of labour‐saving technical change; (2) the … average labour productivity growth in a cross‐section of Australian manufacturing industries.  …

This paper provides an empirical test of the available evidence concerning firms’ productivity structure and the … employed the growth rate of productivity as a measure of innovative activity in empirical tests. However, the innovative … productivity (TFP) can be decomposed into the technical change and the scale economies terms, this study demonstrates the shift in …