Technical efficiency and embodied technical change in the Indonesian pulp and paper industry

Journal of International Development

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 163-178

  van Dijk, Michiel ^a   Szirmai, Adam ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Embodied; Indonesia; Machine index; Paper manufacturing; Stochastic frontier analysis; Technical change; Technical efficiency

Indexed keywords

PULP AND PAPER INDUSTRY; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDONESIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 33645789104     PISSN: 09541748     EISSN: 10991328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jid.1189     Document Type: Article

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