Patterns of plant adjustment

Article Abstract:

A description of the dynamic choices of manufacturing plants when they undertake rapid adjustment in output is provided. The observed patterns of productivity during the adjustment episodes are described. The level of Total Factor Productivity (TFP) drops after spikes in investment or bursts in job destruction and recovers slowly.

Strategy & planning, Facilities & equipment, Planning, Buildings and facilities, Manufacturing processes, Manufacturing, Company business planning, Production planning

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Is there a managerial life cycle? Evidence from the NFL

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A study examines whether the age of executives is related to their productivity in business enterprises. Performance of the coaches of the National Football League is taken up in the study.

Product quality, Quality management, Managers

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On-the-job leisure as a cause of asymmetric observed-effort distributions

Article Abstract:

The effects of workers' on-the-job leisure on their productivity and work efforts are analyzed.

Workers

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