Technical efficiency in transport manufacturing firms: evidence from Malaysia

• Main Authors: Abdullah, Mohd Fahmy, Ismail, Rahmah, Sulaiman, Noorasiah, Abdul Talib, Basri
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia, 2017
• Subjects: TS155-194 Production management. Operations management
• Online Access: http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/4587/1/AJ%202017%20%28208%29%20Technical%20efficiency%20in%20transport%20manufacturing%20firms.pdf; http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/4587/; https://doi.org/10.21315/aamj2017.22.1.3

This study aims to identify the level of technical efficiency and the determinants of technical inefficiency for transport manufacturing firms in Malaysia for 2010 using cross-sectional data of 130 firms acquired from the Department of Statistics (DOS). Based on the stochastic frontier analysis (SFA...