By using the stochastic frontier methodology, this study investigates the technical efficiency and total factor productivity (TFP) growth in Indonesian provincial economies during the period from 1993 to 2000. In addition to the estimation of provincial technical efficiency, factors that contribute to technical inefficiency are also examined and the TFP growth is decomposed into technological p...

nowadays, technological development and the appearance of new informational and communicational devices have been lead to new methods for communication and generating and storing of data. the growth of using of these methods in commercial and daily connection has caused a new version of evidence called electronic evidence. although the nature of electronic and paper evidence are different, the ...

This study examines the impact of participation in short supply chains (SSCs) on technical efficiency (TE) and technological change (TC) cucumber production China, using data for period 2011–2016. The meta-frontier model two-stage residual inclusion approach are utilized to examine association between SSC participation, comparable TE, TC. Accounting selection bias, we show that significantly de...

The traditional approach to modeling productive efficiency assumes that technology is constant across the sample. However, farms in different regions may face production opportunities, and technologies they employ differ due environmental factors. Therefore, rather than using a stochastic frontier model such cases, meta-frontier (SMF) analysis recommended account for factors between regions. It...

1 Department of Quality Control, Chemical Technical Operations Unit-1, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Pvt. Ltd, Bollaram, Jinnaram, Medak (Dist) -502325, India 2 Department of Chemistry, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Anantapur, College of Engineering, Anantapur-515002, Andhrapradesh, India 3 Oil Technological Research Institute, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Anantapur, Anantap...

This paper traces the development of technology as a discourse and as a way of understanding human activity. In our everyday activity, the notion of technology is often consumed by its purely practical, equipmental, interpretation. Such an interpretation assumes the cultural neutrality of technical things, fully justifying the equivocation of the technical with the technological. Since the 1950...