In recent years there has been an exponential growth in the number of publications related
to theory and applications of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Charnes, Cooper, and …

China has gained the reputation of “global factory” due to its phenomenal industrial growth
over the past decades. At the same time, its industrial energy consumption has resulted in …

Using firm‐level data from the Italian manufacturing sector, we investigate the relationship
between small and medium‐sized firms technical efficiency and trade credit. Our …

This paper investigates the effect of participation in global value chains (GVCs) on firms'
efficiency and explores heterogeneity in this impact across different firms, according to GVC …

This article investigates the “virtuous circle” between innovative inputs, outputs, and
economic performance with a three-equation model highlighting feedback loops and …

abstract This paper analyzes the changes in productivity of small and large firms operating
in the automotive industry in France, Italy and Spain, occurred during the pre-crisis (2001 …

Linking the theoretical predictions of the research on lending relationships with those of the
literature on managerial incentives, we investigate whether the duration of credit …

This work investigates to what extent the relevance of close bank-firm ties is affected by the
endowment of social capital characterising the environment in which enterprises operate. By …

How has the Japanese manufacturing sector fared in productivity and technological learning
in recent years? To answer this, we summarized the manufacturing industry into 3-digit sub …

Critics of the Resource-Based View (RBV) consider that the analyzes supported in the
performance of the operational capabilities are, in general, very aggregated, which harms …