A DEA approach to understanding the productivity growth of Malaysia's manufacturing industries

被引：7

作者：

Mahadevan R. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Department of Economics, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD

来源：

Asia Pacific Journal of Management | 2002年 / 19卷 / 4期

关键词：

Data envelopment analysis; Scale efficiency; Technical change; Technical efficiency; Total factor productivity growth;

D O I：

10.1023/A:1020577811369

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摘要：

This paper seeks to explain the productivity growth performance of Malaysia's manufacturing sector using a panel data of 28 industries from 1981-1996. Here, the data envelopment analysis technique is used to calculate and decompose the Malmquist index of total factor productivity (TFP) growth into technical change, change in technical efficiency and change in scale efficiency. This allows the identification of the sources of productivity growth which is crucial for policy formulation. It was found that the annual TFP growth of the Malaysian manufacturing sector was low at 0.8% and this was driven by small gains in both technical change and technical efficiency, with industries operating close to optimum scale. © 2002 Kluwer Academic Publishers.

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页码：587 / 600

页数：13

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