Measurement of input-specific productivity growth with an application to the construction industry in Spain and Portugal

Kapelko, Magdalena; Horta, Isabel M.; Camanho, Ana S.

doi:10.1016/j.ijpe.2015.03.030

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“…(), Skevas and Oude Lansink (), Mahlberg and Luptacik () and Kapelko et al . (). Yet another approach to measuring an input‐specific Luenberger indicator is based on the Principle of Least Action that is related to the notion of least distance and the determination of closest strongly efficient targets (Aparicio et al ., ).…”

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Input‐Specific Dynamic Productivity Change: Measurement and Application to European Dairy Manufacturing Firms

Kapelko¹,

Stefanou²

2016

J Agricultural Economics

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We propose a new method for measuring and decomposing input‐specific productivity change in a dynamic context. The resulting input‐specific dynamic Luenberger productivity change indicator is decomposed to identify the contributions of input‐specific dynamic technical, technical inefficiency and scale inefficiency changes. The empirical application of the paper focuses on panel data of large firms in the European dairy processing industry over the period 2005–2012. The results show similar patterns for dynamic input‐specific productivity change and its components for labour across European regions (Eastern, Western and Southern), while differences between regions are found regarding materials and investments.

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Input‐Specific Dynamic Productivity Change: Measurement and Application to European Dairy Manufacturing Firms

Kapelko¹,

Stefanou²

2016

J Agricultural Economics

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“…Hence, effective financial management can reduce them and improve project success [64]. Construction firms should improve capital use by reducing the size of fixed costs in relation to the variable costs [14]. Planning and control measures are important in the carrying out of the project, as the financial performance of the contractor is linked to the achievement of the cost objectives [103].…”

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“…Furthermore, this sector has a huge capacity to generate both direct and indirect employment [8][9][10]12]. During the previous economic recession, the Spanish construction sector became the epicentre of the crisis, suffering a strong downturn [14]. Despite this critical situation, the influence of construction on the Spanish economy remained higher than in other European countries [11,15].…”

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Competitive Capabilities for the Innovation and Performance of Spanish Construction Companies

2019

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This research analyses the influence of internal capabilities, identified as strategic by the literature, on the performance and innovation of Spanish construction companies during a recessionary period. Based on this, we studied whether innovative, marketing, financial, managerial, and human capabilities affect competitive success in terms of fostering innovation and the performance of firms. Empirical evidence is provided by performing survey research with a sample of 94 Spanish construction firms. The results show that firm innovation is fostered by innovative, financial, and human capabilities, and that performance is promoted by innovation, and financial and human capabilities. Human capabilities have the most important effect on both innovation and the performance of the company.

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“…To do that, we followed Kapelko et al (2015). By analogy with their aproach, we first define a term that measures efficiency change under Variable Returns to Scale (VRS), denoted as ECVRS.…”

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Changes in productivity in the virgin olive oil sector: An application to Protected Designations of Origin in Spain

Aparicio

Monge

Ortíz

et al. 2016

Span. j. agric. res.

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to the population´s growing concerns related to healthy aspects of food, there is also a growing interest taken in the origin or provenance of products as a source of information and significance in the sale of products and brands (Brugarolas et al., 2010). Without a doubt, one of the most successful formulas that agri-food operators have when it comes to competing in increasingly global markets, consists of emphasising all those aspects related to origin or provenance of products through different figures of protection. These figures are the Protected Designations of Origin (PDOs) and the Protected Geographical Indications (PGIs), both RESEARCH ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS AbstractVirgin olive oil is a key ingredient of the renowned Mediterranean diet. In this context, the main objective of this study was to estimate and decompose productivity change for Protected Designations of Origin (PDOs) in the Spanish virgin olive oil sector for the period 2008-2013. To this end, we introduced a Luenberger-type indicator based on a specific weighted additive model in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), which, in contrast to previous studies, captured all sources of inefficiency and avoided infeasibilities. Regarding the results, we found a reduction in productivity, in average terms, in the first periods analyzed (-0.12 and -1.65), followed by an improvement (0.79 and 0.54), that in the last period analyzed (2012)(2013), however, returned to adverse figures (-0.47). In Spain, where foreign competition is weak, the most productive PDOs were those with an important number of oil mills and packaging/marketing companies such as "Montes de Toledo" and "Siurana"; productivity changes were mainly the consequence of downwards and upwards of the frontier of the technology over time. These changes were explained, to a certain extent, by the evolution of the economic crisis; and the productivity of the sector declined, in general, from 2008 to 2010, improving thereafter except for the last registered period, 2012-2013, where expectations for market recovery exceeded actual sales.

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Measurement of input-specific productivity growth with an application to the construction industry in Spain and Portugal

Cited by 62 publications

References 29 publications

Input‐Specific Dynamic Productivity Change: Measurement and Application to European Dairy Manufacturing Firms

Input‐Specific Dynamic Productivity Change: Measurement and Application to European Dairy Manufacturing Firms

Competitive Capabilities for the Innovation and Performance of Spanish Construction Companies

Changes in productivity in the virgin olive oil sector: An application to Protected Designations of Origin in Spain

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