This paper investigates into the determinants of capital structure for the small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in British manufacturing industry and the effects of product category on the determinants of capital structure. 220 SMEs from British manufacturing industry are selected for testing the six hypothesized relationships regarding the determinants of capital structure. Results sugges...

This paper investigates the impact of new firms’ quality on the magnitude of their employment effects. Our results clearly show that the quality of start-ups, measured by their affiliation with sectors and innovative industries, strongly influences the direct and the overall employment contribution of new firms. In particular, start-ups in manufacturing industries generate larger direct and ove...

This work has been supported by the " Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia " (FCT), under grant number SFRH/BD/35999/2007.

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Nowadays, manufacturers are faced with severe challenges to response rapidly to changing demands and meet various customers’ needs with respect to production volume and product profile. Reconfigurable manufacturing paradigm was proposed as an advanced manufacturing philosophy to enhance the adaptability and flexibility of manufacturing systems. By physical and logical reconfiguration, Reconfigu...

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Lean manufacturing (LM) evokes images of efficiency and minimizing unnecessary costs, an attractive value for many companies. But other companies are already as lean as they can be. Does LM have practical limits? This paper demonstrates how the Theory of Constraints (TOC) can take the business performance of those organizations currently pursuing lean to the next level.

The mam concern of this paper is with longer term differences among individual manufacturing industries in the growth of labour productivity and how such differences are associated with relative movements in output, labour earnings, unit costs and prices Certain relationships between the movements of these variables m Irish manufacturing industries will be examined and the results compared with...

Piston plays a vital role in almost all types of vehicles. The present study discusses the behavioral study of a piston manufacturing plant. Manufacturing plants are complex repairable systems and therefore, it is difficult to evaluate the performance of a piston manufacturing plant using stochastic models. The stochastic model is an efficient performance evaluator for repairable systems. In...

This study investigates the responsiveness of manufacturing sector performance to major macroeconomic determinants in Nigeria, covering the period between 1981 and 2018. It contributes to attendant literature by examining the asymmetric impact of each of the macroeconomic variables, including GDP per capita, exchange rate, inflation rate, interest rate proxied by prime lending rate, and gross f...