The empirical evaluation of productivity growth and efficiency of LSEs in the Malaysian food processing industry

• Main Authors: Yodfiatfinda,, Shamsudin, Mad Nasir, Mohamed, Zainal Abidin, Hussein, Md. Ariff, Yusop, Zulkornain, Radam, Alias
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Faculty of Food Science and Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia 2012
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/41056/1/The%20empirical%20evaluation%20of%20productivity%20growth%20and%20efficiency%20of%20LSEs%20in%20the%20Malaysian%20food%20processing%20industry.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/41056/; http://www.ifrj.upm.edu.my/19%20%2801%29%202011/%2838%29IFRJ-2011-122%20Yodfiatfinda.pdf

This study investigates productivity growth and efficiency of Large Scale Enterprises (LSEs) in the Malaysian food processing industry. Malmquist productivity index of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) was employed to five-digit panel data for the period of 2000-2006. The findings suggest that average...