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Total factor productivity in South African manufacturing firms
Kreuser, Friedrich; Newman, Carol - 2016
The manufacturing sector is an important source of productivity growth and exports. Manufacturing firms are generally more productive than firms in the agricultural or services sectors and are an important source of job creation. Little is known about the productivity performance of the sector...
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Resource Misallocation Leading to Productivity Gaps in Malaysia's Manufacturing Sector?
Chuah, Lay Lian - 2019
conclude that efficiency gaps (that is, the degree of misallocation) in Malaysia have narrowed by one-fifth. The efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868903
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Firm-Level Evidence on Productivity Differentials, Turnover, and Exports in Taiwanese Manufacturing
Aw, Bee Yan; Chen, Xiaomin; Roberts, Mark J. - 1999
The manufacturing sector in Taiwan has a market structure composed of large numbers of small firms, a heavy focus on less capital-intensive industries, and a dense network of firms specializing in subcontracting and trading services. It has been argued that these features lower the start-up...
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Determinants of Enterprise restructuring in Transition: Description of a Survey in Russian Industry
Moers, Luc - 2000
To achieve sustainable economic growth in transition countries, it is crucial that enterpriseperformance is improved …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324392
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Determinants of enterprise restructuring in transition : description of a survey in Russian industry
Moers, Luc - 2000
To achieve sustainable economic growth in transition countries, it is crucial that enterpriseperformance is improved …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011303312
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Firm Heterogeneity and Export Participation : A New Asian Tiger Perspective
Cole, Matthew A. - 2008
This paper investigates the relationship between firm heterogeneity and a firm's decision to export, using the annual survey of Thai manufacturing firms from 2001 to 2004. A significant contribution of this paper is that we are, for the first time, able to break down FDI by country of origin to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012724778
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Climate protection potentials of digitalized production processes : microeconometric evidence?
Axenbeck, Janna; Niebel, Thomas - 2021
Although information and communication technologies (ICT) consume energy themselves, they are considered to have the potential to reduce overall energy intensity within economic sectors. While previous empirical evidence is based on aggregated data, this is the first large-scale empirical study...
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Is There Evidence of Creative Destruction in the Turkish Manufacturing Sector? Lessons From a Cross-Industry Analysis of Aggregate Productivity Growth
Yasar, Mahmut - 2020
This paper examines the Schumpeterian creative destruction process by decomposing and analysing aggregate industry-level productivity growth in three Turkish manufacturing industries. The results are somewhat supportive of the Schumpeterian hypothesis given that the productivity effects within...
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Do Market Pressures Induce Economic Efficiency : The Case of Slovenian Manufacturing, 1994-2001
Orazem, Peter F.; Vodopivec, Milan - 2021
The Slovenian transition represents a slow but steady liberalization of constraints on competition. Using a unique … longitudinal data set on all manufacturing firms in Slovenia over the period 1994-2001, this study analyzes how firm efficiency … firm efficiency occurs across almost all industries and firm types: large or small; state or private; domestic or foreign …
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Productivity spillovers from foreign MNEs on domestic manufacturing firms: is co-location always a plus?
Mariotti, Sergio; Mutinelli, Marco; Nicolini, Marcella; … - 2011
The paper analyses productivity spillovers from foreign MNEs on domestic manufacturing firms. Using a database on foreign MNEs in Italy, our results reveal that local firms do benefit from the presence of foreign MNEs, and the effect is higher when local and foreign firms in manufacturing...
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