this paper is concerned with the estimation of frontier production function to measure the technical efficiency for iranian textile companies during 1995. the objective of this estimation is to investigate if there are any differences in the technical efficiency between the private and public firms as well as the relationship between technical efficiency and size of textile companies in iran. a...

the importance of concerning happiness and happiness- making items in organizations and enterprises comes from the fact that it can positively affect productivity through increasing personnel positive emotions and decreasing their negative emotions. as such, the current research has been developed in order to evaluate the status of happiness in one of the research-oriented enterprises. in the c...

As the environmental changing violently, almost all enterprises can’t survive without other enterprises’ cooperation. Many firms have tied with each other and formed an industrial chain structure relationship aggressively called as ‘Supply Chain Relationship’. Therefore, many enterprises had striving for industrial stream integration. With these integration processes, may go through some method...

In 2003, the French government advised manufacturing enterprises to associate service to the product they manufacture in order to keep competitive and profitable. This service orientation represents a huge challenge that impacts organisation, management, and control of industrial firms but also people’s focus and skills which must be less technology oriented but rather customer oriented. Here w...

Human capital attainment among workers plays an important role in determining firm’s output and labor productivity, hence enhances firm’s competitiveness. More educated workers are believed to be more efficient and productive, reduce cost of production and raise the capability of firms to compete especially in the global market.. The intention of the Malaysian government to create the Bumiputer...

This paper quantifies the aggregate impact of various subsidies enjoyed by China's exporting firms in the electronics and communications equipment manufacturing sectors, which nearly makes up the majority of China's exports. Using firm level data from China’s National Bureau of Statistics for 2007, the peak year for China’s trade surplus, we find that although within some narrowly defined indus...

The paper deals with the policies for an idealized transition of a National System of Innovation (NSI) from a system reflecting a relatively closed industrializing economy to an NSI which reflects the conditions of a well-developed "Information Society" and "Learning Economy". The analysis of the transition process analyse the NSI from the viewpoint of the needs of the existing firms of the bus...

Current research considers business model innovation as a series of responses to technological change and market environment change. However, in practice, it is often that leads subversion then promotes new round iterative product renewal. This because value creation activity based on demand, rather than technology-oriented behavior. Moreover, since the degree demand manifestation varies, its i...

Abstract This work sheds light on how firm- and entrepreneur-specific attributes covariate with Chinese private firms’ growth rates before during the global financial crisis. In order to do so, we exploit exceptional presence of data regarding sales over previous three years in 2010 China Private Enterprises Survey. Firms run by entrepreneurs a high level education positive subjective perceptio...