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Presenting a Productivity Pattern Based on Social Capital Using the Meta-Synthesis Approach

Ali Heydarnezhad, Seyed Mohammadbagher Jafari, Jafar Rahmani, Hassan Zare Matin • مدیریت بهره وری (2023)

The Asian Productivity Organization (APO) reports a one percent increase in Iran's Total Factor Productivity (TFP) index when compared to the majority of Asian countries and some reference countries in the long-term horizon of 50 years. In ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.30495/qjopm.2022.1962985.3407

Total factor productivity growth and spatial–temporal evolution of China’s health system: a three-stage DEA-Malmquist approach

Yutong Yan, Pengcheng Wang, Yurui Guo • Frontiers in Public Health (2026)

In recent years, the deepening of healthcare reform in China has raised high demands for the accurate measurement of hospital total factor productivity (TFP), where existing systems often overstate performance by neglecting social welfare. ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2026.1818765

Estimation of China’s Green Investment Efficiency in Belt and Road Countries -Based on SBM-Undesirable Model and Malmquist Index Model

Qingxin Lan, Wan Tang, Qiao Hu • Frontiers in Energy Research (2022)

Green and low-carbon development is an important element of the Belt and Road Initiative, and a reasonable and objective evaluation of China’s green investment efficiency in B&R countries is of great significance to promote the sustaina...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fenrg.2021.802946

The Digital Maturity Paradox: The Divergent Impact of Network Readiness and FDI Across Development Tiers

Pahlaj Moolio, Md Jamirul Haque, Kazi Md. Nasir Uddin, Kim Geok Tan et al. • Economies (2026)

Contemporary economic growth trajectories are characterized by accelerating digital integration. However, the digital infrastructure required to accelerate growth remains unevenly distributed across development tiers. This study examines a ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/economies14080320

Do China State-Level Economic and Technological Development Zones Have a Positive Effect on Regional Total Factor Productivity? A Perspective Based on the Moderating Effect of Transportation Infrastructure

Mengshang Liang, Changxin Xu, Mingxian Li, Yang Lu • Systems (2025)

With the deceleration of China’s economic growth, the crude economic model will progressively diminish in its competitive edge, thereby posing challenges for state-level economic and technological development zones (ETDZs) in terms of trans...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/systems13080620

The impact of the consistency evaluation policy of generic drugs on the integration of innovation chain and industrial chain in the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry

Yanqing Xie, Wenjing Zhang • Frontiers in Public Health (2026)

IntroductionThe Consistency Evaluation Policy of Generic Drugs is a major quality-oriented regulatory reform in China’s pharmaceutical manufacturing industry. Whether and how this policy facilitates the integration of the innovation chain a...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2026.1791110

Robots and Firms

Michael Koch, Ilya Manuylov, Marcel Smolka • The Economic Journal (2021)

Abstract We study the microeconomic implications of robot adoption using a rich panel data set of Spanish manufacturing firms over a 27-year period (1990–2016). We provide causal evidence on two central questions: (1) Which firm characteris...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueab009

Robots at Work

Georg Graetz, Guy Michaels • The Review of Economics and Statistics (2018)

We analyze for the first time the economic contributions of modern industrial robots, which are flexible, versatile, and autonomous machines. We use novel panel data on robot adoption within industries in seventeen countries from 1993 to 20...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_00754