After four consecutive years′ trade surplus, Korea′s climbing foreign trade deficit in 1990 is a clear signal that the … manufacturing management is conducted in Korea and how it might be improved. Too much emphasis has been placed on macro policy … current manufacturing process in order to enhance productivity and competitiveness. Studies the adoption and application of …

The measurement of productivity has been a problem area for many years because of the difficulties inherent in … precisely defining and quantifying all the outputs and inputs which constitute the productivity equation. A productivity … accounting information, so providing an effective system to measure the productivity of an organisation and its departments. The …

performance thus achieved, judged in relation to the plant base used, reflects the productivity of HR. Such a productivity level …

‐capital productivity and productivity of both direct and clerical labour. Success in JIT adoption seem not to be related to certain …

Both the improvement of productivity and the effectiveness of performance measures have been topics of extreme interest … productivity measure, output/input, as a measure of performance at the firm, work‐unit, individual, product, or product‐line level …. Considers the ability of productivity measures to adjust for price changes and to detect factor substitutions. The distortion of …

productivity measures of these firms for resource utilization and product competence are determined. Two groups of patterns with …

number of firms and productivity. Design/methodology/approach – Following Melitz (2003) and Balistreri et al. (2011), the … authors apply CGE simulation to five groups of 140 countries. Findings – The authors find that welfare increases in Korea to … join the TPP regardless the size of the TPP through productivity improvement of participating firms and increases in the …