Productivity growth accounting studies generally focus on productivity growth or decline in more developed countries such as the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) members. In this paper, we develop a generalized efficiency index for a much larger set of 57 national...

A gap has always existed between affluent countries with access to modern Information Technology (IT) adopted in areas of business management and less technologically developed countries living with more outdated technologies used in business and management areas. Although it is commonly...