“…Come as it may, on overwhelming evidence concerning both labour productivity and TFP and at all levels of disaggregation suggest widespread differences in production efficiency across firms and across plants which tend to be persistent over time: see, among others, Nelson (1981), Baily et al (1992), Baldwin (1995), Bartelsman and Doms (2000), Jensen and McGuckin (1997), Power (1998), Rumelt (1991).…”