companies. Return to scale (RTS) and scale efficiency, labour and capital productivity and some other indicators are examined …Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study winemaking efficiency with the help of international performance … envelopment analysis (DEA) and other tools of international performance benchmarking are used to analyse the efficiency of wine …

data from manufacturing plants were collected from through a global research project. Regression analysis was used to test … hypotheses. Findings – The influence of process design on efficiency and innovation performance is not dependent on competitive … intensity; however, the impact of process improvement and process control on efficiency and innovation performance is in some …

The objective of this paper is to assess the potential of Portuguese manufacturing firms with respect to two … crisis periods. (2) Technical efficiency: Independently from the job creation potential, it is important to evaluate whether … small firms use economic resources in an efficient manner. To assess the efficiency of small businesses relative to large …

‐country productivity. Design/methodology/approach – A panel data set for 15 Taiwanese manufacturing industries over the period between 1991 … and 2007 is employed for a model in which productivity is regressed on a measure of O‐FDI. Findings – The study finds no … significant positive or negative effect of O‐FDI on productivity. Breaking down the data by location of the investment, however …

and manufacturing. Across these applications highly different productivity‐related challenges, productivity strategies …Purpose – The paper aims to present an approach to improve the organisation's productivity which is applicable in every … industrial sector. The nucleus of the approach is to develop an optimal productivity strategy in an organization by the …

-based brassware manufacturing units. Research limitations/implications – The meaning and interpretations of quality, productivity and … manufacturing units. The systems approach has been applied to understand productivity. Originality/value – This paper creates …Purpose – This paper examines the ways in which the concepts of “quality”, “productivity” and “business performance …

The 1980s have seen the emergence of a new perception of productivity and its relationship to quality, cost and … quality and high productivity and profitability are mutually exclusive has been seriously challenged by academics and managers … alike. While most company studies point to a positive relationship between quality and productivity, the results of the …

The key to increasing productivity in the manufacturing sector does not lie solely in high technology, but also in an …, prediction and control are indispensable; thus statistical tools have become a prerequisite to any productivity drive, those of …

design of productivity measurement systems. The responses of 114 chief executives, drawn from a wide range of New Zealand …‐based manufacturing companies, to a mailed survey have been analysed using Friedman two‐way ANOVA tests. The results suggest significant … associated with management’s preference for the type of productivity measurement systems.  …

Separating functional areas, especially in the product design and manufacturing process, is a historical problem in … least maximum two‐way communication between each pair of functional areas, is necessary for product‐manufacturing firms to …