A recent literature has demonstrated that fixed costs at the firm level can lead to strategic complementarities and hence, coordination failure in industrialisation across sectors. The existence of such complementarities appears to hinge critically on the nature of these fixed costs -- that is,...

The introduction of team-based flexible production system substantially enhanced productivity and product quality at some progressive plants which adopted them. Most of these plants adopted a bundle of human resource practices which are designed to encourage workers to acquire broad skills and...