The impacts of country characteristics upon the value of information technology as measured by productive efficiency

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 13-33

  Lin, Winston T ^a   Chiang, Chung Yean ^a  

^a 160 Jacobs Management Center   (United States)

Author keywords

CD, BC, and BT frontier productions; Country characteristics; Domestic investment; Information technology; Productive (technical) (in)efficiency; Return on assets; Theory of production; Time varying stochastic frontier approach; Vertical integration

Indexed keywords

COUNTRY CHARACTERISTICS; DOMESTIC INVESTMENT; FRONTIER PRODUCTION; PRODUCTIVE (TECHNICAL) (IN)EFFICIENCY; RETURN ON ASSETS; THEORY OF PRODUCTION; TIME-VARYING STOCHASTIC FRONTIER APPROACH; VERTICAL INTEGRATION;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECONOMICS; EFFICIENCY; INVESTMENTS; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; PRODUCTIVITY; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 79955481519     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2011.02.013     Document Type: Article

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