Industrial efficiency in six nations

著者

• Caves, Richard E.
• Bailey, Sheryl D.

書誌事項

Industrial efficiency in six nations

[edited by] Richard E. Caves in association with Sheryl D. Bailey ... [et al.]

MIT Press, c1992

注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

"Industrial Efficiency in Six Nations" continues the research begun in Caves and Barton's "Efficiency in U.S. Manufacturing Industries", extending it to the international sphere and laying the empirical groundwork for a deeper understanding of the sources of inefficiency and their cost in productivity. This extended project applies the stochastic frontier production function routinely, with results that are both meaningful and sophisticated. Of particular interest are substantive results concerning the effects of exposure to competition, both domestic and foreign, and of organizational factors such as corporate diversification and unionization on productive efficiency. Caves and his colleagues investigate the gaps between average and best-practice efficiency of plants in the manufacturing industries of the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, Japan, and Korea. They show that the resulting measures of industrial efficiency can be used to test many hypotheses about how efficiency differs from industry to industry. They confirm the generally favourable effects of competition on efficiency and also test many effects of organizational choices, while controlling for dynamic disturbances and sources of intrinsic diversity. They also explore what happened to the typical industry's efficiency over time, show how much and why the efficiency of large and small units differs, and probe the relation of the gap between an industry's average and best-practice efficiency and its international standing in average productivity.

目次

• Part 1 Introduction and summary: efficiency in national manufacturing sectors
• technical efficiency in Japanese industries, Akio Torii
• technical efficiency in Korea, Seong Min Yoo
• technical efficiency in UK manufacturing industry, David G. Mayes and Alison Green
• technical efficiency in Australia - phase 1, Chris M. Harris
• determinants of technical efficiency in Australia, Richard E. Caves
• industrial efficiency and plant turnover in the Canadian manufacturing sector, John Baldwin. Part 2 Extensions in time and space: technical efficiency over time in Korea, 1978-88 - exploratory analysis, Seon Min Yoo
• the intraindustry dispersion of plant productivity in the British manufacturing sector, 1963-79, Sheryl D. Bailey
• "dual structure" and differences of efficiency between Japanese large and small enterprises, Akio Torii
• technical efficiency in Japanese and US manufacturing industries, Akio Torii and Richard E. Caves
• productivity growth and technical efficiency in OECD industrial activities, Fabienne Fecher and Sergio Perelman.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA1879516X
• ISBN:
  • 0262031930
• LCCN: 92003851
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Cambridge, Mass.
• ページ数/冊数: vi, 492 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : HC79.I52
  • DC20 : 338/.06
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Industrial productivity -- Case studies
  • LCSH : Efficiency, Industrial -- Case studies