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Does the Business Environment Affect Corporate Investment in India?
Tokuoka, Kiichi - 2012
Since the global financial crisis, corporate investment has been weak in India. Sluggish corporate investment would not only moderate growth from the demand side but also constrain growth from the supply side over time. Against this background, this paper analyzes the reasons for the slowdown...
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Capital Structure of Indian Steel Companies : Its Determinants
Panda, Brahmadev - 2018
This paper is an attempt to study the capital structure of Indian Steel Industry and its determinants. The 66 sample steel companies are bearing an average debt portion of 68% in their capital structure means highly debt driven. Hence we tried to figure out which are the factors significantly...
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Using Social Connections and Financial Incentives to Solve Coordination Failure : A Quasi-Field Experiment in India's Manufacturing Sector
Afridi, Farzana - 2018
and financial incentives affect productivity in tasks that require coordination among workers. We simulate assembly line … effect of social connections. Our results are driven by men whose average productivity is significantly lower than that of …
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Using social connections and financial incentives to solve coordination failure : a quasi-field experiment in India's manufacturing sector
Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita; Li, Sherry Xin; … - 2018
and financial incentives affect productivity in tasks that require coordination among workers. We simulate assembly line … effect of social connections. Our results are driven by men whose average productivity is significantly lower than that of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011859500
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Green Foundry Development Through Casting Simulation and QFD
Chahal, Amrinder Singh; Thareja, Priyavrat - 2011
The context of providing right value to the customer begins with a holistic objective and a broad vision. The issue of broad vision appears as being devoid of the point focus, but it is a blessing in disguise especially when this asymptotic phenomenon results because of inclusion of...
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Credit Constraints and Increased Firm-level Production Fragmentation – Evidence from India
Ghosh, Debarati; Dutta, Meghna - 2022
Previous studies have underlined various rationales for production fragmentation from wage differentials, decreased trade costs, access to specialized skills and resources, access to new markets, and benevolent government policies, to technological advancement. However, the idea that a firm’s...
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What explains the productivity decline in manufacturing in the nineties in India?
Ray, Saon - 2014
This paper uses the data envelopment analysis (DEA) based Malmquist productivity index to estimate total factor … productivity growth (TFPG), technical change, and efficiency change for a panel of firms during the period 1991 to 2001 in 26 … Indian manufacturing industries. The paper then analyses the factors explaining productivity growth, technical change and …
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Trade liberalization and industry level productivity in Indian iron-steel and cement industries : evidences from post-reform period
Mangla, Sanjay Kumar - In: Thailand and the world economy 41 (2023) 1, pp. 1-34
The productivity growth has an important linkage with economic growth and standard of living. It not only increases … therefore public policies aim at improving productivity. This paper focusses on estimating productivity in iron-steel and cement … industries in India and examines the impact of trade liberalization on productivity. The period of the study is from 1991-92 to …
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Aggregate productivity growth in Indian manufacturing : an application of domar aggregation
Das, Deb Kusum; Kalita, Gunajit - 2009
Productivity growth in Indian manufacturing is an important driver of overall growth, yet the issues related to its … measurement have still not been resolved. The issue of how to compute an aggregate productivity measure holds significance for two … reasons: one, the productivity of a firm should reflect the productivity of the lower levels, which comprise the aggregate …
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Production efficiency of firms with mergers and acquisitions in India
Saraswathy, Beena - 2015
Most often, the competition authorities approve combinations based on the tradeoff between the expected efficiency gains and the likely effect on market power creation. However, the realities may be different from the expected synergy creation since merger regulations are ex ante in nature. The...
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