Productivity Factors in Measurement Technology

Towards a Productivity Measurement Model for Technology- Mediated Learning Services

Technology-mediated Learning Services (TMLS) increasingly play an important role in the vocational training service industry. However, TMLS success is assessed inconsistently within literature. To assess TMLS success, this study focuses on a TMLS productivity perspective, i.e. a systematic inspection of the input, process and output perspective. Consequently, we will develop a TMLS productivity...

Globalisation , Productivity and Technology

Recent empirical evidences show negative relationship between outsourcing and profitability. This paper provides a theoretical explanation for this phenomenon. In an oligopoly model, we show that firms earn lower profits in the outsourcing equilibrium compared to the situation where neither firm does outsourcing, and it holds irrespective of the intensity of competition. So, outsourcing creates...

Research and development in productivity measurement: An empirical investigation of the high technology industry

The high tech industry has played a critical role in the economic growth of Taiwan over the past two decades. The main success factor in the high tech industry is posited to be improving R&D efficiency and performance. This study utilizes an empirical study to provide valuable managerial insights when measuring the impact of R&D activities and performance representation in the Taiwanese high te...

Toward Accurate HPC Productivity Measurement

One key to improving high-performance computing (HPC) productivity is finding better ways to measure it. We define productivity in terms of mission goals, i.e., greater productivity means that more science is accomplished with less cost and effort. Traditional software productivity metrics and computing benchmarks have proven inadequate for assessing or predicting such end-to-end productivity. ...

Maintenance Productivity and Performance Measurement