Impact of information technology on productivity and efficiency in Iranian manufacturing industries

Abri, A. Gholam; Mahmoudzadeh, Mahmoud

doi:10.1007/s40092-014-0095-1

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“…On the other side, Abri & Mahmoudzadeh, (2015) in the empirical investigations have confirmed the impact of information technologies on the productivity and efficiency of manufacturing industries in Tehran. Based on the penal data findings collected from the 23 Iranian manufacturing industries between the periods of 2002-2006.…”

Section: Empirical Investigations On Current Technologies Impacts On mentioning

confidence: 72%

Disruption in Manufacturing Industry - The Future of Global Workforce

Bambe¹

2019

ASSRJ

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The aim of this research was to evaluate the future of the global workforce aligned with the disruptive technologies in the manufacturing industry. The impacts of 5G, robotics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning were focused on current research. The purpose was to identify the possible safety net, which could be used by the governments and regulatory authorities to deal with the negative effects of technologies on the workers' displacement in the next 5 to 10 years. Through the implementation of the inductive research methodology based on structured survey questionnaire administered with the sample of 100 employees working in the manufacturing sector, effects of disruptive technologies on the employment situation, production activity and overall organisation performance were addressed. Findings of the investigation have confirmed that new technologies have positive impacts on the production activity and overall organisational performance. New technologies are contributing vitally to increasing the production output, production quality, improving the cost of delays, increasing efficient waste management, reliable and consistent growth and enhanced profitability for the manufacturing companies. In contrary, these technologies are also having negative effects on the employment situation such as reduced recruitment, training, compensation, and increased unrest. Lastly, the set of recommendations directing towards introducing governmental regulations and policies for mandatory training, balanced compensation and increased hiring, are expected to have a significant positive contribution for tackling the issue of displacements.

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Section: Empirical Investigations On Current Technologies Impacts On mentioning

confidence: 72%

Disruption in Manufacturing Industry - The Future of Global Workforce

Bambe¹

2019

ASSRJ

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“…In Iranian manufacturing sector, IT had a positive and statistically significant effect on productivity (ABRI & MAHMOUDZADEH, 2015). A more recent corroborating study shows that access to ICT increased the efficiency of maize marketing efforts in Nigeria by 20.035% at 99% confidence interval.…”

Section: Occupational Choice and Agricultural Labour Efficiency In Nimentioning

confidence: 87%

“…It is noteworthy that the extent of the effect of ICTs on labour efficiency varies by country and according to the industry. This is so because ICT led development requires complementary factors such as reorganization of business models, high-quality management, high-level labor and economic competitive environment (ABRI & MAHMOUDZADEH, 2015) which varies from country to countries and from one industry to another. Used the internet to obtain information (1=yes, 0= no) Used the internet to send/receive mails (1=yes, 0= no) Used the internet to send/receive instant messages (1=yes, 0= no) Used the internet to make/receive voice calls (1=yes, 0=no) Used the internet to order for goods or services (1=yes, 0=no) Used the internet for electronic banking (1=yes, 0= No) Used the internet for electronic learning (1=yes, 0= No) Used the internet to read or download newspapers (1=yes, 0 = no) Constant Log likelihood: LR Chi-Squre(12): …”

Section: Occupational Choice and Agricultural Labour Efficiency In Nimentioning

confidence: 99%

Occupational choice and agricultural labour efficiency in Nigeria: Impact of ICTs

Etowa

Adejo

2017

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“…Since its introduction, DEA has been extensively employed in economic analysis to calculate measures of efficiencies in various situations and industries, such as transportation [29,31,32], government and public sector [33][34][35], public utilities [21,22,[36][37][38], healthcare [39][40][41], education [42,43], banking and finance [44,45], energy and environmental studies [46][47][48][49][50][51][52], manufacturing and information technology [53][54][55][56].…”

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Efficiency, Conflicting Goals and Trade-Offs: A Nonparametric Analysis of the Water and Wastewater Service Industry in Italy

Storto

2018

Sustainability

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This paper presents a benchmarking study of the water and wastewater industry in Italy. A three-stage modeling approach was implemented to measure the efficiency of 53 utility operators. This approach is based on the implementation of network and conventional data envelopment analysis (DEA) to model the production process of the water service utility operators. In comparison to the conventional black-box or one-stage production model generally adopted in previous studies, the proposed approach provides information relative to the different efficiency components of the stages and blocks of the water service production process and its overall efficiency. Further, by shifting the efficiency analysis to a two-dimensional performance space, i.e., resource and market-efficiency, it offers a more comprehensive view of the water service industry and allows accounting for different business goals at the same time and for an investigation of industry trade-offs. Results show that the operators' efficiencies in the Italian water service industry are generally variable and low. There are no water service utilities which are 100% efficient from the resource-efficiency perspective, and the maximum efficiency score is 0.545. Efficiency measurements suggest that there is a general orientation of the Italian water industry to not invest in upgrading and improving the infrastructure assets, and achieving an acceptable efficiency in the operations is critical to delivering water services to market in an efficient way. Only one utility operator is 100% efficient from the market-efficiency perspective. The low tariffs adopted by the water service operators do not allow the gaining of satisfactory service remuneration and the achievement of long-term business sustainability. The joint analysis of the resource and market efficiency scores indicates that there is a trade-off between the corresponding business goals.

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Impact of information technology on productivity and efficiency in Iranian manufacturing industries

Cited by 37 publications

References 36 publications

Disruption in Manufacturing Industry - The Future of Global Workforce

Disruption in Manufacturing Industry - The Future of Global Workforce

Occupational choice and agricultural labour efficiency in Nigeria: Impact of ICTs

Efficiency, Conflicting Goals and Trade-Offs: A Nonparametric Analysis of the Water and Wastewater Service Industry in Italy

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