scholarly journals Total Factor Productivity in South African Manufacturing Firms

2018 ◽  
Vol 86 ◽  
pp. 40-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl Friedrich Kreuser ◽  
Carol Newman
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Total Factor Productivity ◽  
Manufacturing Firms ◽  
Factor Productivity

scholarly journals A liberalised South African airline industry: Measuring airline total-factor productivity

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anton Brits
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Total Factor Productivity ◽  
Airline Industry ◽  
Performance Indicator ◽  
Air Transport ◽  
Factor Productivity ◽  
Efficient Management ◽  
Index Approach ◽  
Proportional Change ◽  
Operational Information

The liberalisation of the South African airline industry through economic deregulation established competitive domestic and international markets. Sustainability of air transport, subject to these liberalisation effects, depends on efficient management information such as total-factor productivity, which necessitates comprehensive financial and operational information. Total-factor productivity in general, however, is not utilised by airlines as a key performance indicator since the measuring thereof is complex and regarded as tedious. Changes in air transport total-factor productivity can be measured in two ways. First, an index approach can be adopted that shows the proportional change in the inputs in relation to a proportional change in output. Secondly, a production function can be determined (econometric approach) that shows a change of productivity as a shift in the production curve. The research on which the article is based, exploited the theory, selection and application of an appropriate approach to determine changes of total-factor productivity of an individual airline to assist/support efficient decisionmaking by management.

scholarly journals Misallocation and Productivity: The Case of Vietnamese Manufacturing

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 94-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doan Thi Thanh Ha ◽  
Kozo Kiyota ◽  
Kenta Yamanouchi
Keyword(s):  
Size Distribution ◽  
Total Factor Productivity ◽  
Substantial Improvement ◽  
Manufacturing Firms ◽  
Viet Nam ◽  
Factor Productivity ◽  
Potential Productivity ◽  
Resource Misallocation ◽  
Productivity Gains ◽  
Actual Size

This paper attempts to measure the effect of resource misallocation on aggregate manufacturing total factor productivity, focusing on Vietnamese manufacturing firms during the period 2000–2009. One of the major findings of this paper is that there would have been substantial improvement in aggregate total factor productivity in Viet Nam in the absence of distortions. The results imply that potential productivity gains from removing distortions in Vietnamese manufacturing are large. We also find that smaller firms tend to face advantageous distortions, while larger firms tend to face disadvantageous ones. Moreover, the efficient size distribution is more dispersed than the actual size distribution. These results suggest that Viet Nam's policies may constrain its largest and most efficient producers, and coddle its smallest and least efficient ones.

scholarly journals Tariffs and Total Factor Productivity: The Case of Ghanaian Manufacturing Firms

2012 ◽  
Vol 03 (03) ◽  
pp. 275-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Ackah ◽  
Ernest Ernest Aryeetey ◽  
Oliver Morrissey
Keyword(s):  
Total Factor Productivity ◽  
Manufacturing Firms ◽  
Factor Productivity

scholarly journals The Quality of Regional Government and Firm Performance

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Fernanda Ricotta
Keyword(s):  
Firm Performance ◽  
Total Factor Productivity ◽  
Manufacturing Firms ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Regional Government ◽  
Factor Productivity ◽  
Regional Institutions ◽  
Institutional Differences ◽  
Cross Country

This paper examines the effect of the quality of regional government (QoG) on firm Total Factor Productivity (TFP) in a multi-country context. The analysis is based on comparable cross-country data of manufacturing firms operating in seven European countries. To disentangle internal from external productivity drivers, the multilevel approach is employed. Results show that firms’ characteristics are important but external factors also play a role. As regards the specific scope of this paper, the results provide evidence that institutional differences within countries do matter for firm performance. The attempts made to address endogeneity problems confirm the positive and significant impact of the quality of regional institutions on firm performance.

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