Organizational Form and Efficiency: Evidence from Indian Sugar Manufacturing

Frontier cost and production functions are used to examine the effects of ownership on intrafirm differences in technical, cost, and allocative efficiency in the Indian sugar processing industry. Cooperatives are found to be as or more efficient than their counterparts. The results suggest that tech...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Journal of Comparative Economics 1995-08, Vol.21 (1), p.29-53
Hauptverfasser:	Ferrantino, Michael J., Ferrier, Gary D., Linvill, Carl B.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Co-operatives Economic conditions Economic efficiency India Manufacturing Production functions Seasonality Sugar Sugar industry Vertical integration
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