Essays on Scale Economies and Efficiency in Public Education

We advocate a nonparametric multi-output framework to estimate outputspecific economies of scale and we apply this model to male prisons in England and Wales over the sample period 2009-2012. To estimate output-specific returns to scale in prisons, we consider not only the cost-per-place, but also qualitative outputs such as purposeful out-of-cell activity and successful reintegration. Furtherm...

As an organizational form, franchising has evolved to the point where it now accounts for 38% of all retail sales in the U.S. This unqualified success of the franchise form can be attributed to its inherent strategic advantages. The most central of these strategic advantages is economies of scale. But scale, and the ensuing spatial preemption, are only attained through the acquisition of extern...

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With increasing international competition it is imperative that the South African sugar industry improves cane yields and quality, and curtails production costs. It is thus likely that increasing domestic labour costs will result in the long-run substitution of capital for labour (i.e. increased mechanisation). Given the high cost and indivisible (or lumpy) nature of mechanical inputs, it is im...

Abstract In a widely acclaimed contribution to Management International Review, Hennart (2007) challenged one of the mainstream theories Business, S-curve relationship between multinationality and performance, by arguing that there is no positive impact on performance aside from scale enhancing effect resulting increasing multinationality. We examine his arguments analyzing 3876 firms Canada, G...