presently, emerging economies are acquiring singular positions all over the world. the complexities of nowadays economy have caused international companies and investors to be of a tendency towards emerging markets for more profitability and growth. this study aims to find the relationships between firm's profitability and growth in iranian manufacturing industry consisting of tehran stock...

Knowledge of Production technology and information communication technology covers many aspects of the knowledge process in firm. Digital Manufacturing is one of the core strategies of the European Manufacture vision and strategic agenda towards the knowledge based production. It is driven by the application and standardization of information and communication technologies and the increasing de...

How should the performance of a manufacturing company be assessed, relative to firms making similar products, at home and abroad? This paper shows how company-level productivity measures can be developed from public financial data to provide a more comprehensive gauge of firm performance than profit rates alone. As a specific example, we focus on the Korean steelmaker, POSCO. Founded four decad...

The phrase by Feigenbaum (1951) that quality is never an accident; it is the result of intelligent efforts is rightly indicating the fruitful effects and outcomes for quality management systems like TQM and clearly depicting that right and intelligent efforts in the right direction will produce quality results which in turn creates value of organization in the market. While examining this indep...

Out of all the inputs required to build up a profitable enterprise, one essential elements, if not most crucial element, is human resources. They are ones who ultimately drive business goals, and this true for banking sector, but very few studies have been done try gauge impact resource element on profitability enterprise. This study an attempt address gap, especially in Banking sector. paper h...

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...

There has been much debate on whether or not the investment in Information Technology (IT) provides improvements in productivity and business efficiency. Several studies both at the industry-level and at the firm-level have contributed differing understandings of this phenomenon. Of late, however, firm-level studies, primarily in the manufacturing sector, have shown that there are significant p...