Although the empirical pattern of industry shakeout has been documented for many manufacturing industries, we know little about the processes by which market structure evolves in non-manufacturing service industries. This paper establishes detailed empirical observations about the consolidation of a single non-manufacturing industry, the wholesale distribution of pharmaceuticals. These observat...

In this study, results of the research into competitive manufacturing strategies of companies in four different sector studies covering 82 companies from the electronics, cement, automotive manufacturers, and appliances part and component suppliers in Turkey are presented. The data used in the study are gathered by conducting four sector surveys in 1997 and 1998 using a questionnaire supported ...

Crude Palm Oil (CPO) is the mainstay of Indonesian agricultural products which largest CPO producing country in world. The high market share exports reflects competitiveness global market. purpose this study to determine CPO, concentration industry, and analyze factors that are suspected affect industry Indonesia. data used secondary with a five-digit ISIC (10432) using time series for 2001-202...

Development economists argue that trade protection reduces industrial sector efficiency, mainly through the distortion in relative prices, increased market power, x-inefficiency and inefficient scales of production. Nevertheless there is no convincing evidence on the link between trade reforms and improvement in economic performance. This work examines the case of Uruguay, an economy that intro...

Industries are one of the main sources of pollution in the world. Besides, the levels of energy resources consumption including water, electricity, and fossil fuel are very different among industries. On the other hand, Iranian government pays a large amount of energy subsidy to manufacturing units. Because of it, the government wants to know which of manufacturing industries are efficient, pro...

This paper investigates the impact of new firms’ quality on the magnitude of their employment effects. Our results clearly show that the quality of start-ups, measured by their affiliation with sectors and innovative industries, strongly influences the direct and the overall employment contribution of new firms. In particular, start-ups in manufacturing industries generate larger direct and ove...

This study investigates the organizational value of IT-enabled strategic capabilities in specific industry settings. We propose a theory-based model of positive relationships among IT resources, strategic-level agility, and firm performance. The model also proposes the relative values of the strategic-level agility in service and manufacturing industries. Survey data of medium to large-size ent...

This study examines the influence of factors responsible for work stress among the employees in the manufacturing industries in Kerala, India. The sample size of the subjects selected for the study consists of 75 Engineers, 110 Supervisors and 675 Workers in the selected manufacturing industries in Kerala ,India. Seven factors were identified with the existing literatures, and in consultation w...

An increasingly influential “technological-discontinuity” paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view in the U.S. manufacturing sector. In contrast to this view and our expectations, we find little differential productivity growth in IT-intensive manufacturing industries. ...

The changes in manufacturing systems and industrial structure brought about by the development of new, computer-based flexible technologies has been a subject of growing debate during the last decade. There is a lack of solid empirical support for almost all hypotheses developed in this debate since data on the relative use of various manufacturing systems are not available for an econometric a...