Productivity Growth, Efficiency and Outsourcing in Manufacturing and Service Industries

By Almas Heshmati. 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management Science and Operations Research

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Technological regimes and sectoral differences in productivity growth (2007, methodology): “…discussion of different methods of productivity measurements and the underlying theoretical views, see Bartelsman and Doms (2000), Hulten (2000) and Heshmati (2003). sources of opportunities are high (e.g. USERS with COMPET, SCIENCE with PATDISCL), suggesting that some of these variables may…”
Do Technological Improvements in the Manufacturing Sector Raise or Lower Employment (2005, background): “(See Almas Heshmati (2003) for a survey on outsourcing’s effect on the measurement of productivity.)”
Productivity change in European banking: A comparison of parametric and non-parametric approaches (2004, background): “With the introduction of flexible functional forms (e.g., translog and Fourier Flexible) the simple time trend representation of technical change has been modified to include time squared, and interactions between time and other explanatory variables (Heshmati, 2001).”
Multinationals Productivity Advantage: Scale or Technology? (2007, unknown): “See also Heshmati (2003), for a review.”
Productivity Effects of Outsourcing - New evidence on the strategic importance of vertical integration decisions (2009, background): “The significant and strongly negative impact of the percentage of personnel costs at turnover on labour productivity is no surprise and is in line with existing empirical findings (e.g. Heshmati, 2003; Kossbiel, 2000) and our expectations (H 2a).”
Are small firms less efficient? (2009, background): “A few studies have found that the impact of subcontracting on the firm’s technical efficiency is significantly positive (see Heshmati 2003 for an overview).”
Outsourcing and Firm-level Performance (2002, background): “A few studies have analysed the impact of outsourcing on firm efficiency (for an overview see Heshmati, 2002).”
Does Outsourcing Increase Profitability? (2004, unknown): “While Heshmati (2003) in his recent survey points out that there is no general definition or measurement of outsourcing, he broadly describes it as " different kinds of corporate action related to all subcontracting relationships between firms and the hiring of workers in nontraditional jobs " (p.…”