This paper analyzes productivity with a directional distance function model by investigating convexity and non …-convexity in the Chinese banking sector. Two primary findings are summarized. First, there is a distinct change in productivity … experience local versus global technological change is small, indicating that productivity changes are driven by national rather …

This study presents evidence that structured management practices and their relationship to productivity can vary with … practices. We test these propositions in a representative sample of 390 manufacturing firms in China, where state linkages …, proxied by controlling ownership, stabilize operating conditions for a subset of government-owned firms in the country …