Productivity Measurement at the Firm Level

Gabriel R. Bitran and Li Chang
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Gabriel R. Bitran: Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
Li Chang: Department of Management, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712

Interfaces, 1984, vol. 14, issue 3, 29-40

Abstract: Many managers are reluctant to measure the productivity of their firms because the concept of productivity remains elusive and it is not clear to them how to measure it. This paper discusses the concept and addresses the critical issues of measurement at the firm level: index numbers, conversion factors, and various measurement problems of inputs and outputs.

Keywords: economics: input-output analysis; inventory/production: measures of effectiveness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1984
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