Productivity and business performance: apprasail of SME in Côte d’Ivoire

Hugues Kouadio

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Abstract: This paper proposes a nonparametric analysis of the performance of companies in Côte d’Ivoire. The study focuses, initially, on the determination of technical efficiency scores using the Data Envelopment Analysis method (DEA), and econometric modeling the type tobit to determine the factors associated with technical efficiency companies. Our results do not support the conclusion of the technical efficiency of enterprises. Only 12 companies of 727 or 1.67% of our sample companies have reached their production frontier. Among the explanations of business productivity business characteristics (size, nature of business), financial factors (debt burden) and environmental factors (labor movement, strikes and social unrest) predict the level of productivity of firms.

Keywords: Enterprize; Productivity; performance; DEA; nonparametric (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D22 O12 O17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-02-28
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