Production Inefficiency In Small And Medium Industries: A Study Of Bakery Firms In Malaysia

Contemporary empirical works on efficiency have focused considerably on the overall effects of productivity. Few have attempted decomposing efficiency effects of productivity. While aggregate studies are useful, efforts to unbundle efficiency effects can offer important insights into the sources of...

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Main Authors: Shazali Abu, Mansor, Alias, Radam
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS) 2000
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description Contemporary empirical works on efficiency have focused considerably on the overall effects of productivity. Few have attempted decomposing efficiency effects of productivity. While aggregate studies are useful, efforts to unbundle efficiency effects can offer important insights into the sources of productivity. This not only assists in allowing a better understanding of the role of economic agents, but also in policy making. Using prevailing models of technical and scale-based efficiencies, this paper attempts to examine the dynamics of productivity growth in small and medium scale industries (SMIs). It also compares the composition as well as the overall efficiency of SMIs and large scale industries (LIs). A case study was conducted on the bakery industry in Malaysia.
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spelling unimas-92352021-07-14T16:53:50Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/9235/ Production Inefficiency In Small And Medium Industries: A Study Of Bakery Firms In Malaysia Shazali Abu, Mansor Alias, Radam H Social Sciences (General) Contemporary empirical works on efficiency have focused considerably on the overall effects of productivity. Few have attempted decomposing efficiency effects of productivity. While aggregate studies are useful, efforts to unbundle efficiency effects can offer important insights into the sources of productivity. This not only assists in allowing a better understanding of the role of economic agents, but also in policy making. Using prevailing models of technical and scale-based efficiencies, this paper attempts to examine the dynamics of productivity growth in small and medium scale industries (SMIs). It also compares the composition as well as the overall efficiency of SMIs and large scale industries (LIs). A case study was conducted on the bakery industry in Malaysia. Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS) 2000 Article NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/9235/1/Shazali.pdf Shazali Abu, Mansor and Alias, Radam (2000) Production Inefficiency In Small And Medium Industries: A Study Of Bakery Firms In Malaysia. International Journal of Business and Society, 1 (1). pp. 95-102. ISSN 1511-6670 http://www.ijbs.unimas.my
spellingShingle H Social Sciences (General)
Shazali Abu, Mansor
Alias, Radam
Production Inefficiency In Small And Medium Industries: A Study Of Bakery Firms In Malaysia
title Production Inefficiency In Small And Medium Industries: A Study Of Bakery Firms In Malaysia
title_full Production Inefficiency In Small And Medium Industries: A Study Of Bakery Firms In Malaysia
title_fullStr Production Inefficiency In Small And Medium Industries: A Study Of Bakery Firms In Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Production Inefficiency In Small And Medium Industries: A Study Of Bakery Firms In Malaysia
title_short Production Inefficiency In Small And Medium Industries: A Study Of Bakery Firms In Malaysia
title_sort production inefficiency in small and medium industries: a study of bakery firms in malaysia
topic H Social Sciences (General)
url http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/9235/
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http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/9235/1/Shazali.pdf