It has been suggested that market structure will have an impact on within-industry differentials in efficiency, or cost disadvantages of small firms. To test this hypothesis, this paper examines the effects of market structure on the productivity (relative to industry productivity) of small manufact
Small-v-large firms in Australian manufacturing
โ Scribed by Winston C. Dunlop
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 969 KB
- Volume
- 4
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0921-898X
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