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Firm size, age and efficiency: Evidence from Kenyan manufacturing firms

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  1. Neil Dias Karunaratne, 2007. "Microeconomic Reform and Technical Efficiency in Australian Manufacturing," Discussion Papers Series 345, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
  2. Enver H. KRASNIQI & Esat A. DURGUTI & Dea E. KRASNIQI, 2020. "The Innovations and Entrepreneurship – Evidence from Kosovo’s SME Sector," Economics and Applied Informatics, "Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, issue 1, pages 22-27.
  3. Dinesh Jaisinghani & Mahesh Joshi & Jatin Goyal & Sharad Sharma, 2023. "Persistence of financial efficiency in indian hospitality and tourism industry: a dynamic panel Approach," Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, Springer, vol. 57(2), pages 1845-1863, April.
  4. Lopamudra D. Satpathy & Bani Chatterjee & Jitendra Mahakud, 2017. "Firm Characteristics and Total Factor Productivity: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing Firms," Margin: The Journal of Applied Economic Research, National Council of Applied Economic Research, vol. 11(1), pages 77-98, February.
  5. Margono, Heru & Sharma, Subhash C., 2006. "Efficiency and productivity analyses of Indonesian manufacturing industries," Journal of Asian Economics, Elsevier, vol. 17(6), pages 979-995, December.
  6. Vu Hoang Duong, 2016. "Technical efficiency of FDI firms in the Vietnamese manufacturing sector," Review of Economic Perspectives, Sciendo, vol. 16(3), pages 205-230, September.
  7. Chia-Lin Chang & Stéphane Robin, 2012. "Knowledge sourcing and firm performance in an industrializing economy: the case of Taiwan (1992–2003)," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 42(3), pages 947-986, June.
  8. Her-Jiun Sheu & Chi-Yih Yang, 2005. "Insider ownership and firm performance in Taiwan's electronics industry: a technical efficiency perspective," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 26(5), pages 307-318.
  9. Teerawat Charoenrat & Charles Harvie, 2012. "Technical Efficiency of Thai Manufacturing SMEs: a Comparative Study of North-eastern Provinces," Economics Working Papers wp12-03, School of Economics, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia.
  10. Segun Thompson Bolarinwa & Olawale Akinyele & Xuan Vinh Vo, 2021. "Determinants of nonperforming loans after recapitalization in the Nigerian banking industry: Does efficiency matter?," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 42(6), pages 1509-1524, September.
  11. Francis Teal & Måns Söderbom, 2002. "Size and Efficiency in African Manufacturing Firms: Evidence from Firm-Level Panel Data," Economics Series Working Papers WPS/2002-07, University of Oxford, Department of Economics.
  12. Rey-Martí, Andrea & Ribeiro-Soriano, Domingo & Sánchez-García, José Luis, 2016. "Giving back to society: Job creation through social entrepreneurship," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 69(6), pages 2067-2072.
  13. Wei, Chu & Löschel, Andreas & Liu, Bing, 2015. "Energy-saving and emission-abatement potential of Chinese coal-fired power enterprise: A non-parametric analysis," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 49(C), pages 33-43.
  14. Awa Sanou & Lenis S. O. Liverpool‐Tasie & John M. Kerr, 2020. "Threshold investment and firm viability: Evidence from commercial poultry farms in Nigeria," Agribusiness, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 36(3), pages 422-439, June.
  15. Etim, Nsikak-Abasi A. & Udoh, Edet J., 2014. "Identifying Sources Of Efficiency Among Resource Poor Indigenous Vegetable Farmers In Uyo, Nigeria," International Journal of Food and Agricultural Economics (IJFAEC), Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University, Department of Economics and Finance, vol. 2(1), pages 1-7, January.
  16. Peiyuan Xu, 2020. "Do SME Policy Improve Firm Productivity? Empirical Evidence from Latin America and China," International Business Research, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 13(3), pages 1-47, March.
  17. Gachino, Geoffrey, 2007. "Technological spillovers from multinational presence - Towards a conceptual framework," MERIT Working Papers 2007-017, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT).
  18. Soderbom, Mans & Teal, Francis, 2004. "Size and efficiency in African manufacturing firms: evidence from firm-level panel data," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 73(1), pages 369-394, February.
  19. Amal Farag, 2016. "Empirical Study on the Spillover Effect of FDI in the Egyptian and Polish Manufacturing Sector," International Journal of Business and Management, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 11(8), pages 1-97, July.
  20. Cristina Bernini & Andrea Guizzardi, 2010. "Internal and Locational Factors Affecting Hotel Industry Efficiency: Evidence from Italian Business Corporations," Tourism Economics, , vol. 16(4), pages 883-913, December.
  21. Szirmai, Adam & Van Dijk, Michiel, 2007. "The Micro-Dynamics of Catch Up in Indonesian Paper Manufacturing: An International Comparison of Plant-Level Performance," MERIT Working Papers 2007-010, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT).
  22. Lozano-Vivas, Ana & Pasiouras, Fotios, 2010. "The impact of non-traditional activities on the estimation of bank efficiency: International evidence," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 34(7), pages 1436-1449, July.
  23. Álvarez, Antonio & Arias, Carlos, 2001. "The Relationship Between Technical Efficiency and Farm Size," Efficiency Series Papers 2001/05, University of Oviedo, Department of Economics, Oviedo Efficiency Group (OEG).
  24. Stavros Kourtzidis & Nickolaos G. Tzeremes, 2019. "Investigating the determinants of firm performance," European Journal of Management and Business Economics, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 29(1), pages 3-22, June.
  25. Nolwenn Roudaut & Anne Vanhems, 2012. "Explaining firms efficiency in the Ivorian manufacturing sector: a robust nonparametric approach," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 37(2), pages 155-169, April.
  26. Kiplangat Josea Cheruiyot, 2017. "Determinants of Technical Efficiency in Kenyan Manufacturing Sector," African Development Review, African Development Bank, vol. 29(1), pages 44-55, March.
  27. Ali Ugur, 2004. "Technical Efficiency in Irish Manufacturing Industry, 1991-1999," Trinity Economics Papers 20044, Trinity College Dublin, Department of Economics.
  28. David Adeabah & Charles Andoh, 2020. "Cost efficiency and welfare performance of banks: evidence from an emerging economy," International Journal of Managerial Finance, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 16(5), pages 549-574, July.
  29. Anup Kumar Bhandari & Pradip Maiti, 2007. "Efficiency of Indian Manufacturing Firms: Textile Industry as a Case Study," International Journal of Business and Economics, School of Management Development, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan, vol. 6(1), pages 71-88, April.
  30. Hery Purnomo Tunggal & Tati Suhartati Joesron, 2019. "Technical Efficiency Analysis Of Indonesian Small And Micro Industries: A Stochastic Frontier Approach," Working Papers in Economics and Development Studies (WoPEDS) 201903, Department of Economics, Padjadjaran University, revised Nov 2019.
  31. Francisco J. Más & Ricardo Sellers, 2006. "Technical Efficiency In The Retail Food Industry: The Influence Of Inventory Investment, Wage Levels, And Age Of The Firm," Working Papers. Serie EC 2006-15, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie).
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  33. Robert Lensink & Aljar Meesters, 2014. "Institutions and Bank Performance: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis," Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Department of Economics, University of Oxford, vol. 76(1), pages 67-92, February.
  34. Gachino, Geoffrey, 2006. "Foreign Direct Investment, Firm-Level Capabilities and Human Capital Development: Evidence from Kenyan Manufacturing Industry," MERIT Working Papers 2006-014, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT).
  35. Edward Oczkowski & Kishor Sharma, 2005. "Determinants of Efficiency in Least Developed Countries: Further Evidence from Nepalese Manufacturing Firms," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 41(4), pages 617-630.
  36. Måns Söderbom & Francis Teal, 2001. "Are African Manufacturing Firms Really Inefficient? Evidence from Firm-Level Panel Data," Economics Series Working Papers WPS/2001-14, University of Oxford, Department of Economics.
  37. Kien Ngoc Do & Huong Nguyen Giang & Le Huy & Nguyen Kim Phuong Thuy, 2023. "Does Global Value Chain Participation Improve Technical Efficiency Of Smes? Evidence From Vietnam," Post-Print hal-04528712, HAL.
  38. Vincent Mok & Godfrey Yeung & Zhaozhou Han & Zongzhang Li, 2010. "Export orientation and technical efficiency: clothing firms in China," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 31(7), pages 453-463.
  39. Ku-Hsieh Chen & Pei-Hwa Chen & Julie Ann Elston & Yingchao Zhang, 2023. "Are family firms more efficient? Revisiting the U-shaped curve of scale and efficiency," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 61(3), pages 983-1008, October.
  40. Anup Bhandari & Pradip Maiti, 2012. "Efficiency of the Indian leather firms: some results obtained using the two conventional methods," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 37(1), pages 73-93, February.
  41. Sabuj Kumar Mandal & S Madheswaran, 2009. "Energy Use Efficiency in Indian Cement Industry: Application of Data Envelopment Analysis and Directional Distance Function," Working Papers 230, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore.
  42. Arpita Ghose & Chandrima Chakraborti, 2013. "The Relative Role of Imports and Exports in Explaining Productivity of Indian Bio-Pharmaceutical Firms: Evidence from Non Parametric Data Envelopment Analysis," Foreign Trade Review, , vol. 48(2), pages 165-201, May.
  43. Musemwa, L. & Mushunje, Abbyssinia & Muchenje, V. & Aghdasi, F. & Zhou, L., 2013. "Factors affecting efficiency of field crop production among resettled farmers in Zimbabwe," 2013 Fourth International Conference, September 22-25, 2013, Hammamet, Tunisia 161443, African Association of Agricultural Economists (AAAE).
  44. Hailu, Kidanemariam Berhe & Tanaka, Makoto, 2015. "A “true” random effects stochastic frontier analysis for technical efficiency and heterogeneity: Evidence from manufacturing firms in Ethiopia," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 50(C), pages 179-192.
  45. Musau, Andrew & Kumbhakar, Subal C. & Mydland, Ørjan & Lien, Gudbrand, 2021. "Determinants of allocative and technical inefficiency in stochastic frontier models: An analysis of Norwegian electricity distribution firms," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 288(3), pages 983-991.
  46. Wu, Zai Bin & Yeung, Godfrey & Mok, Vincent & Han, Zhaozhou, 2007. "Firm-specific knowledge and technical efficiency of watch and clock manufacturing firms in China," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 107(2), pages 317-332, June.
  47. Padmavathi N, 2019. "Technical efficiency of unorganised food processing industry in India: A stochastic frontier analysis," Working Papers 449, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore.
  48. Maximilian Koppenberg & Stefan Hirsch, 2022. "Output market power and firm characteristics in dairy processing: Evidence from three EU countries," Journal of Agricultural Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 73(2), pages 490-517, June.
  49. Yang, Anhyuk & Lee, Daeho & Hwang, Junseok & Shin, Jungwoo, 2013. "The influence of regulations on the efficiency of telecommunications operators: A meta-frontier analysis," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 37(11), pages 1071-1082.
  50. Min Bai & Samir Harith, 2023. "Measuring SMEs Risk – Evidence from Malaysia," SN Business & Economics, Springer, vol. 3(7), pages 1-32, July.
  51. Lamees Al-Durgham & Mohammad Adeinat, 2020. "Efficiency of Listed Manufacturing Firms in Jordan: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis," International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, Econjournals, vol. 10(6), pages 5-9.
  52. Eleftherios Giovanis & Oznur Ozdamar, 2018. "Productivity and Resource Misallocation: Evidence from Firms in Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region Countries," Working Papers 1266, Economic Research Forum, revised 10 Dec 2018.
  53. Mariarosaria Agostino & Ercan Enzo Comert & Federica Demaria & Sabrina Ruberto, 2024. "What kinds of subsidies affect technical efficiency? The case of Italian dairy farms," Agribusiness, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 40(1), pages 116-138, January.
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  56. Sebastian Lakner & Thelma Brenes‐Muñoz & Bernhard Brümmer, 2017. "Technical Efficiency in Chilean Agribusiness Industry: A Metafrontier Approach," Agribusiness, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 33(3), pages 302-323, June.
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