Production efficiency and productivity growth in Norwegian sawmilling

Forest Science

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 89-97

  Nyrud, Anders Q ^a   Baardsen, Sjur ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Catching up effect; Distance function; Frontier shift effect; Scale efficiency; Technical efficiency

Indexed keywords

PRODUCTION; SAWMILLS; PRODUCTION EFFICIENCY; SAWING; WOOD PRODUCTS;

EXTENSIVE DATA PANEL SET;

FORESTRY; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS;

CATCHING-UP; CATCHING-UP EFFECT; DISTANCE FUNCTIONS; FRONTIER-SHIFT EFFECT; PANEL DATA; PRODUCTION EFFICIENCY; PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH; SAWMILLING; SCALE EFFICIENCY; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY;

DATA; EFFICIENCY; GROWTH; NORWEGIAN; PRODUCTION; PRODUCTIVITY; SAWING; WOOD PRODUCTS;

EID: 0037314294     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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