The measurement of interspatial productivity differences (for example between countries), also called the comparison of productivity levels, is usually based on models that make use of strong assumptions such as competitive behaviour and constant returns to scale. This paper develops a blueprint for interspatial comparative productivity measurement. It will be shown that all the usual, neoclass...

Selection of high producing cell lines to produce maximum product concentration is a challenging and time consuming task for the biopharmaceutical industry. The identification of early markers to predict high productivity will significantly reduce the time required for new cell line development. This study identifies candidate determinants of high productivity by profiling the molecular and mor...

Much attention has been placed on measuring performance of activity completion in Lean literature, using techniques such as Percentage of Planned Activities Completed (PPC). Originally intended as one component of measuring plan execution, along with measures of Planned Productivity, PPC has been extensively researched but Planned Productivity has been neglected. Using a lean methodology based ...

This report reviews the concept and measurement of agricultural productivity with special references to USDA multifactor productivity statistics. An American Agricultural Economics Association task force has examined the sources and procedures used in constructing the existing statistics and recommends that USDA: (1) place greater emphasis on improving methodology; (2) move further toward a com...

Current approaches to retail productivity measurement have long been controversial because of difficulties in identifying the level of retail services. Data Envelopment Analysis, an operations research-based performance evaluation methodology, is introduced as one solution for resolving this problem and assessing managerially useful measure of storelevel retail productivity. Data Envelopment An...

Measuring the productivity of employees has been one of the concerns of IT organisations globally. It is indispensable to calculate the cost of the project vis-a-vis the time estimate. While calculating the lines of coding (Loc) has generally been the common criteria for programmers, it is not always considered an effective measure of the actual work done. The time spent on activities like atte...

Until now, there exists no universal approach for measuring the productivity of services. Various factors have different impacts on service productivity, ranging from the relationship between service providers and customers to service quality. So far, only some of these factors have been investigated in detail. The purpose of this paper is to describe, synthesize, evaluate, and integrate the re...

A prominent theoretical controversy in the compensating differentials literature concerns unobservable individual productivity. Competing models yield opposite predictions depending on whether the unobservable productivity is safety-related skill or productivity generally. Using five panel waves and several new measures of worker fatality risks, first-difference estimates imply that omitting in...

Using two panels of U.S. manufacturing industries, this paper estimates capital adjustment costs from 1961 to 1996. I find that from 1974-83 adjustment costs rose sharply—they more than doubled from about 3% of output to around 7%. Moreover, this increase is specifically associated with a shift to investment in information technology. But such large adoption costs imply that the Solow residual ...