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| Author: | Rochina-Barrachina, M.E. Manez, J.A. Sanchis-Llopis, J.A. |
| Title: | Process innovations and firm productivity growth |
| Journal: | Small business economics
2010 : FEB, VOL. 34:2, p. 147-166 |
| Index terms: | companies by size productivity growth innovation surveys manufacturing companies Spain |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This article explores the effect of process innovations (herein as: prc-inns.) on firm total factor productivity growth (henceforth as: p-g.), dealing explicitly with the impact of firm size on the nature of this relationship. It is especially analyzed whether firm size affects the life span of the impact of prc-inns. on p-g. Using data from a Spanish survey of manufacturing firms from 1991 to 1998, a fully non-parametric methodology is used, based on the concept of stochastic dominance. The results show that the implementation of prc-inns. produces an extra p-g. both for large and small firms. However, the p-g. is more persistent for large than for small firms. |
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