Productivity in Indian Manufacturing
Productivity in Indian Manufacturing

Author: Vinish Kathuria

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-09-25

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1317559789

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This volume comprehensively captures trends in productivity and its determinants in the post-reform period for Indian manufacturing. It provides an up-to-date survey of different methods employed in measuring productivity and their applications across organized and unorganized sectors, including food, beverages, furniture, gems, chemicals, petroleum and rubber, metals and minerals, paper products, publishing, textiles, etc. The essays examine the uneven impact of economic reforms and growth on the performance of the manufacturing sector. This will be especially useful to students and scholars of economics, business and management, policymakers and governmental agencies, particularly those interested in Indian economy and manufacturing.

R and D, Education, and Productivity
R and D, Education, and Productivity

Author: Zvi Griliches

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780674003439

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Griliches was a modern master of empirical economics. Here, he recounts what he and others have learned about the sources of economic growth, and conveys how he tackled research problems. For Griliches, theorizing without measurement produces mere parables, but measurement without theory is blind. Judgment enables one to strike the right balance.

Agricultural Research and Productivity Growth in India
Agricultural Research and Productivity Growth in India

Author: Robert Eugene Evenson

Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 107

ISBN-13: 089629112X

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Investment in productivity: the research system, technology transfer, extension, and infrastructure; The development and spread of modern crop varieties; Total factor productivity in the indian crop sector; Sources for the growth of total factor productivity in indian agriculture; Conclusions and policy implications.

Globalization of Indian Industries
Globalization of Indian Industries

Author: Filip De Beule

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-11-07

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9811000832

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This book focuses on Indian manufacturing industries and analyses the impact of inward foreign direct investment on the domestic sector on the one hand, and exports and outward foreign direct investment by Indian companies on the other. Although the emphasis is mostly general, specific industries, such as the automotive industry or the wind energy sector are also explored. The differences between low and high technology industries are also addressed. In terms of theoretical setting and analysis, the book draws both from international business and industrial organization literature. The various characteristics of Indian industries, such as the determinants and impacts of R&D, the effects of spillovers, the drivers of productivity and technical efficiency are thoroughly researched employing appropriate quantitative methodologies that are relevant to the specific domain and topic under investigation. The book also focuses on the bearing of policy on promoting manufacturing industries in India and is therefore of interest to researchers, industrialists and policy makers alike.

Globalisation of Technology
Globalisation of Technology

Author: N.S. Siddharthan

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-09-20

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 981105424X

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This book examines the globalisation of technology and innovation in the modern world. Enterprises globalise in several ways, e.g. by exporting, sourcing components and materials from other countries (B2B commerce), outsourcing, licensing their technologies and production, and foreign direct investments (FDI). Transaction costs and location advantages play a crucial role in selecting the best mode of globalisation. A number of important questions – like what are the pull and push factors contributing to FDI, does outward FDI from a developing country like India contribute to participation in international production networks, and does FDI mitigate business cycle co-movements – keep cropping up in the growing body of knowledge on the globalisation of technology. This book addresses these issues, as well as the consequences of FDI – in particular, with regard to technology, productivity, and R&D spillovers. Issues related to innovations, R&D, intra-industry trade, and knowledge management are also discussed.

Technology, Market Structure and Internationalization
Technology, Market Structure and Internationalization

Author: Nagesh Kumar

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 1134688172

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Technology, Market Structure and Internationalization discusses the domestic and external factors that impinge upon the process of technological capability building in developing countries and draws policy implications. Specifically, it examines the interaction between technological effort in developing countries. Providing fresh insights, this volume will be of interest to researchers in development economics as well as to those involved with the creation of policy in developing countries.

The Allocation of Limited Entrepreneurial Attention
The Allocation of Limited Entrepreneurial Attention

Author: Sharon Gifford

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 1461556058

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The Allocation of Limited Entrepreneurial Attention examines the implications of allocating limited entrepreneurial attention among activities or projects. This book maintains that attention is simultaneously limited in that a decision maker can pay attention to only one thing at a time, and entrepreneurial in that it may be allocated to evaluating a potential new project for possible adoption. However, since the outcome of the allocation of attention is not certain, the number of projects among which attention can be allocated is stochastic and the maximum number of projects is endogenously determined by the optimal allocation of limited entrepreneurial attention and describes the implications of this analysis for a number of economic problems.