Are small firms less efficient?

CH Yang, KH Chen - Small Business Economics, 2009 - Springer
This paper compares the technical efficiency of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
with that of large firms and studies the factors influencing technical efficiency for Taiwan's …

Are small firms really less productive?

E Taymaz - Small Business Economics, 2005 - Springer
Small and medium-sized establishments (SMEs) account for a large proportion of industrial
employment and production in almost all countries. Moreover, the recent literature …

Regional total-factor energy efficiency and electricity saving potential of manufacturing industry in Turkey

Y Özkara, M Atak - Energy, 2015 - Elsevier
Regional energy and environmental efficiency measurement is a noteworthy research topic
regarding regional development. Data Envelopment Analysis is a suitable technique in the …

Türkiye özel sektör imalât sanayiinde etkinlik ve toplam faktör verimliliği analizi

E Deliktaş - 2002 - open.metu.edu.tr
Bu çalışmada özel sektör imalât sanayiinin 1990-2000 dönemi performans düzeyi
ölçülmektedir. Performans ölçümünde, illerin sektörel bazda teknik etkinlik ve toplam faktör …

The relationship between firm size and efficiency: why does default on bank loans matter?

A Rapposelli, G Birindelli, M Modina - Quality & Quantity, 2024 - Springer
This paper presents an investigation of the interconnection between firm size and efficiency
under the financial constraints lens. Specifically, we used the Data Envelopment Analysis …

Investigating technical efficiency and its determinants by data envelopment analysis: An application in the Greek food and beverages manufacturing industry

AN Rezitis, MA Kalantzi - Agribusiness, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, a two‐step procedure is applied in order to investigate technical efficiency and
its determinants in the Greek food and beverages manufacturing industry for the period 1984 …

The effects of economic reforms on manufacturing dualism: Evidence from India

V Kathuria, SNR Raj, K Sen - Journal of Comparative Economics, 2013 - Elsevier
Dualism is a pervasive feature of the manufacturing sectors of less-developed countries,
with large differences in productivity between the informal and the formal sectors. Policy …

Impact of ICT on the productivity of the firm: evidence from Turkish manufacturing

Y Kılıçaslan, RC Sickles, A Atay Kayış… - Journal of Productivity …, 2017 - Springer
This paper aims to explore the impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
on labor productivity growth in Turkish manufacturing. This is the first attempt at exploring the …

Technical efficiency, technological progress and productivity growth of large and medium manufacturing industries in Ethiopia: A data envelopment analysis

OT Erena, MM Kalko, SA Debele - Cogent Economics & Finance, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The purpose of this study is to assess empirically how the technical efficiency scores for 43
sub-sectors and their determinants over the period 2010 to 2017 show significant variation …

[PDF][PDF] Modeling technical inefficiencies effects in a stochastic frontier production function for panel data

MA Baten, AA Kamil, MA Haque - African Journal of Agricultural Research, 2009 - Citeseer
A stochastic frontier production function is defined for panel data on tea industries, in which
the nonnegative technical inefficiency effects are assumed to be a function of industry …