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eprints-105
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| recordtype |
eprints
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| institution |
SOAS, University of London
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| collection |
SOAS Research Online
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| language |
English
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| language_search |
English
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| description |
Since the mid-1990s, China’s state leadership has adopted a policy of nurturing the competitiveness of large state-owned industrial enterprises. The implications of this policy have been a matter of debate in the literature. This paper seeks to provide some useful input into the debate. With a view of investigating into the potential of long-term development of large enterprises, we estimate the “sequential production technology” in computing the Malmquist productivity index for various size-groups of enterprises in Chinese industry. Our findings indicate that large enterprises did register the fastest productivity growth and improvement in technical efficiency in the 1994-97 period. It thus appears that large-scale, mainly state-owned Chinese enterprises have exhibited the potential of making noticeable improvements and the relevant state policy does have its justification.
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| format |
Monographs and Working Papers
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| author |
Cheng, Yuk-Shing
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| author_facet |
Cheng, Yuk-Shing
Lo, Dic
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| authorStr |
Cheng, Yuk-Shing
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| author_letter |
Cheng, Yuk-Shing
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| author2 |
Lo, Dic
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| author2Str |
Lo, Dic
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| title |
Firm Size, Technical Efficiency and Productivity Growth in Chinese Industry
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| publisher |
SOAS Department of Economics Working Paper Series; No. 144
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| publishDate |
2004
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| url |
https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/105/
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