manufacturing

The paper analyses micro-level data from the U.S. and European semiconductor manufacturers. In particular, the authors focus on the plants undertaking the wafer manufacturing processes.

The paper analyses micro-level data from the U.S. and European semiconductor manufacturers. In particular, the authors focus on the plants undertaking the wafer manufacturing processes.

In this paper, the author takes a sensible approach to revitalizing American manufacturing by focusing on overcoming inefficiencies in the development of manufacturing. He states that this approach to revitalizing manufacturing can best be implemented through federal efforts to encourage and support state and local economic development policies that help enhance manufacturing productivity.

The objectives of this report are to examine the characteristics of manufacturing in Atlantic Canada and to shed light on the factors behind the productivity gap between Atlantic Canada and Canada in the context of the manufacturing sector. A number of possible factors contributing to the Atlantic Canada-Canada manufacturing productivity gap are examined, including innovative activity, capital intensity, quality of human resources, economies of scale and the seasonality of production.

The purpose of the paper is to revisit the productivity gap in manufacturing between between the United Kingdom and other industrialized countries over the period 1970-1998. The results indicate

The paper identifies and explains patterns of regional specialization and manufacturing concentration in Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Romania and Slovenia. The authors find that
patterns of manufacturing relocation are country-specific.

Building on a model in which aggregate increasing returns is the result of the increase in the number of varieties of composite services, under competitive manufactures, the authors derive a simple and empirically tractable reduced form linking manufacturing productivity growth to the growth of
manufacturing output.

The authors econometric analysis indicates
that localization of demand and comparative advantage factors are the main driving forces of the observed relative manufacturing concentration patterns.

The paper examines if re-investment by foreign-owned plants embeds these plants leading to higher survival time durations. It utilizes project-based inward investment data for the North-East of England over the period 1985-1998, and finds that plant re-investment increases the median survival duration of a start-up plant by about 50 per cent (from about 9 to 14 years), but only by about 20 per cent for large plants, where most job losses occur.

The paper integrates the operations management and the management control literature in order to focus on the issue of strategic alignment of manufacturing processes in a Balanced Scorecard-based compensation plan. The study offers a theoretical foundation for the thesis that alignment of manufacturing processes with business strategy will result in higher organizational performance.