This study is to investigate the short- and long-run causal relationship between agglomeration (localization and urbanization) economies and labor productivity in the manufacturing sector of 28 Iranian provinces over an 11-year period, 2001–2011. Fully Modified Ordinary Least Squares (FMOLS) method was used to estimate our long-run panel data model. The empirical findings suggested that localiz...

We examine factors determining productivity of firms’ information service activities, using most comprehensive data of information service industries in Japan. We focus on the degree of modularization and resulting outsourcing, economies/diseconomies of scale in software development, and firms’ organizational changes. Outsourcing has persistent negative effects on total factor productivity, sug...

The indicators used in economics to calculate the productivity scale are not always positive, therefore, existing models need to be developed to calculate the productivity scale for the semi-negative and semi-positive output index. However, companies with a lack of capacity need to achieve economies of scale and demand for realization simultaneously in the presence of a negative outflow index, ...

M. Claire Horner-Devine*, Mathew A. Leibold, Val H. Smith and Brendan J. M. Bohannan Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 6063, USA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 6604, USA *Correspondence: E-mail: [email protected] Abstract P...

DomansKa, K., T. KijeK and a. nowaK, 2014. agricultural total factor productivity change and its determinants in european Union countries. Bulg. J. Agric. Sci., 20: 1273-1280 The present study concerns the measurement of changes in agricultural total factor productivity in 27 european Union (eU) countries. The analysis included the years 2007--2011. The study was conducted based on malmquist pr...

This paper gives a pictorial view of the relevance of lean thinking, particularly the applicationof muda as a supplement to the sustainable improvement diagnosis technique of existing public office buildings,for a fuller assessment of users’ requirement in Nigeria. The impact of perceived muda was related to the triplebottom line of sustainable development on perceived job productivity and desi...

Background: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between spiritual intelligence, organizational optimism and Kant's moral conscientious view on the productivity of first grade high school teachers in Hamadan in the academic year 2018-2019. Method: The method of this study is descriptive-correlational. The statistical population includes all teachers of the first second...

Fish stocks fluctuate both in abundance and productivity (net population increase), and there are many examples demonstrating that productivity increased or decreased due to changes in abundance caused by fishing and, alternatively, where productivity shifted between low and high regimes, entirely unrelated to abundance. Although shifts in productivity regimes have been described, their frequen...