The research study presents, discusses and offers understanding on outsourcing, the most important benefits (advantages) and potential risks (disadvantages) associated with-in. It emphasizes the outsourcing specialized maintenance activities and its role in business success. In this research, a hypothesis were develop whether the benefits of outsourcing maintenance in manufacturing companies ar...

As more and more industries experience the globalisation of business activities, measuring productivity performance has become an area of concern for companies and policy makers in Europe, the United States and Japan. This paper provides a non-technical synthesis of the productivity measurement methods used in a series of comparative industry studies. Such studies try to reach beyond standard a...

Does trade liberalization foster total factor productivity (TFP) growth in the manufacturing sector? Does sectoral trade orientation determine sectoral TFP levels and growth rates? These questions are addressed using pooled pre-and post-liberalization panel data from Cameroonian firms of eight manufacturing industries. A single production function for the whole manufacturing sector is estimated...

Due to the rise in environmental awareness, green technologies and practices have become the conscientious imperative expected from all manufacturing industries. Consequently, environmental initiatives are becoming an essential part of the strategic planning in organizations, including the small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Thus, the objectives of this study were to determine the extent of im...

How does contract manufacturing /outsourcing affect productivity? Existing studies have conflicting empirical findings regarding this issue. This paper aims to reconcile these in the literature by viewing research question through lens of property rights theory. The authors develop a moderated moderation model empirically examine how productivity is influenced interactions among manufacturing, ...