At its core, productivity is a fundamental analysis of quantity. In a manufacturing setting, it's most often a calculation of gross values, which suggests efficiency and scales of economy. Because the ...

As a small-business owner, you must continually strive to improve productivity so that you can get more output for the wages you pay your employees. When you introduce incentives and changes for ...

Vol. 20, No. 3, Special Issue on Efficiency Analysis: Proceedings of a Research Workshop on the State-of-the-Art and Future Research in Efficiency Analysis (November, 2003), pp. 273-304 (32 pages) ...

In this article we have adapted productivity analysis to the case of a cost model using a quadratic cost function and discrete data. The main theoretical result is a productivity index that can be ...