After an introductory chapter, chapter 2 reviews and assesses the existing theoretical and empirical literature on TFP growth. A detailed review of the economic and historical literature on productivity growth in Indonesian manufacturing follows. This allows constructing a new m…
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This dissertation investigates the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) and international trade on firm level decisions and examines the effect of policy changes on aggregate productivity and welfare in open economies. The first two chapters build an open economy model of …
The purpose of this phenomenological qualitative study was to explore the factors that hindered government-owned organizations in Nigeria from achieving operational efficiency, effectiveness, accountability, and productivity. The purpose of the study was to explore whether priva…
The purpose of this dissertation is to estimate technical efficiencies and its determinants among Indonesian manufacturing firms, banks, as well as provincial economies over the period 1993 to 2000. Stochastic frontier analysis is used to achieve these aims. The technical effici…
This study examined the concept of quality to improve the overall performance of the small and medium-sized enterprises in the manufacturing industry in South Africa. The study focused on the issues faced by the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in South Africa, due to t…
Agile methods are being adopted in the software development industry increasingly and even beyond this sector. Outsourcing software development from developing countries in the Global South is increasing in the industry. With Lebanon being the hub for outsourcing software for th…
Understanding the spatial and temporal dynamics of soil water and crop water stress within a field is critical for effective Variable Rate Irrigation (VRI) management. Proper VRI can result in improved protection of the crop from early onset of crop water stress while minimizing…
Site specific farming systems have the potential to increase farmers' net income by reducing the use of agro-chemicals and applying variable rate technology for areas showing stable yield patterns. This study was designed to: (1) study yield patterns in given fields using variog…
This thesis evaluates the use of work sampling in predicting construction labor productivity. It also considers the effect of complexity level, crew size, and skill level on the relationship between productivity and work sampling categories. This study tests three hypotheses: pr…
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between individual factors, reinforcement factor, departmental factors, and institutional factors, to the research and publication productivity levels of LIS faculty members in Saudi Arabian universities. Personal intervi…
The assessment of organizational effectiveness represents a crucial step in the improvement process of the firm. Most existing methods of assessing organizational effectiveness in the context of the construction firm tend to be organization-specific. Most utilize a project-depen…
This dissertation utilizes the latest econometric techniques to address three economic growth issues based on the experiences of selected Middle East and North Africa (MENA) economies. First, in chapter two we use the perpetual inventory method to construct series of physical ca…
This study investigates and studies many construction productivity related issues in Saudi Arabia including productivity awareness among construction contractors, applicability of different productivity measurement methods, hindrances of productivity improvement programs, areas …
My dissertation explores the effect of ethnic conflict, or regulations meant to avoid ethnic strife, on firm employment and productivity in developing countries. The first chapter investigates the impact of the conflict in Cote d'Ivoire that began in 2000, using a census of all …
Trenchless Technology (TT) offers methods to install utilities through the ground without damaging the surface. Box Jacking is a trenchless method for installation of prefabricated box and drainage structures without digging a trench. The concept of box jacking is similar to pip…
Essay 1: Most of studies on developing countries have found evidence that international linkages, such as foreign ownership, exporting, or importing, affect productivity growth, but since these variables are correlated, it is hard to distinguish among their effects. This paper t…
This study explores the research productivity of Addis Ababa University (AAU) faculty. AAU was established in 1950 and is the oldest modern higher educational institution in Ethiopia. Recently AAU took steps to transform itself to become a pre-eminent African research university…
This study examines seven deverbal nominalizing suffixes through theoretical framework and previous research. They include the morphological aspects, productivity of suffixes, base-driven approach and phonological neutral and nonneutral suffixes. Learners participated in an inst…
Jacking is a trenchless construction technique used for installing underground pipeline system. Jacking method is more widely used for upgrading under capacity culverts and drainage structures under roads and railroad tracks. Also, this method is used for installing underground …