the greatest limitations to agricultural development and production in iran are scarcity of water resources, ineffective irrigation scheduling and wasteful water usage. avenues discussed for optimum water use include improving water productivity by improving irrigation scheduling, farm water management and water profitability. the present study evaluated current water use and ways to improve wi...

*This paper is the result of work being undertaken as part of a collaborative research program entitled 'The Performance of Australian Enterprises: Innovation, Productivity and Profitability'. The project is generously supported by the Australian Research Council and the following collaborative partners: Australia Tax Office, Commonwealth Office of Small Business, IBIS Business Information Pty ...

In this work we investigate two crucial dimensions of firms’ structure and dynamics, that is profitability and productivity performance. The empirical distributions and the associated persistence over time are explored through a set of parametric and non parametric exercises performed on an large panel of Italian firms active in both Manufacturing and Services during the period 1998-2003. The m...

We undertake a study where we examine changes in the profitability, productivity and price recovery of firms in the U.S. telecommunications industry over a sixteen-year period. We assess the performance of thirty-three major companies in the local-exchange sector over six time periods 1975, 1978, 1981, 1984, 1987 and 1990, using a performance analysis model which disaggregates the profitability...

*This paper is the result of work being undertaken as part of a collaborative research program entitled The Performance of Australian Enterprises: Innovation, Productivity and Profitability. The project is generously supported by the Australian Research Council and the following collaborative partners: Australia Tax Office, Commonwealth Office of Small Business, IBIS Business Information Pty Lt...

This study examines the technical efficiency and productivity of domestic and foreign commercial banks in Malaysia 1994-2000. We find that foreign banks have a higher efficiency level than domestic banks, and that efficient banks are characterised by size but not profitability or loan quality. The main source of productivity growth is technical change rather than improvement in efficiency. The ...

Productivity is an important component of profitability, and therefore an important variable for monitoring and benchmarking exercises. This paper discusses the necessary accounting model as well as the various measurement problems one gets involved in. By virtue of its structural features, this model is applicable to individual firms and aggregates such as industries or economies. Though the m...

We make the case that ERP-related profitability improvements first manifest themselves in gross margin. Using regression discontinuity analysis, we compared “SAP Successes” with their matched competitors before and after their SAP implementation periods and found that the gross margin of SAP successes improved significantly but not their operating margin. These results proved robust across two ...