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Industry Productivity Growth: A Network Perspective

Industry Productivity Growth: A Network Perspective Abstract Background: This study investigates the determinants of industrial productivity growth from a network perspective. Objectives: The research focuses on the influence on a focal industry’s productivity growth by its partner industries’ productivity growth, and the impact of the focal industry’s position in the supply chain network. Method/Approach: The paper models the economy as a customer-supplier industry network and empirically investigates how a focal industry’s multifactor productivity is influenced by the productivities of industries that are connected to it, and how this influence is moderated by its position in the network. Results: Based on a balanced panel dataset of 55 industries from the United States Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) input-output accounts, the results indicate that a focal industry’s productivity growth is positively associated with its partner industries’ productivity growth, and that industries with higher centrality in the network tend to have higher productivity growth. Conclusions: The study concludes with a discussion on the implications of the findings and the contribution to the productivity literature. Several directions for further research were identified. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Business Systems Research Journal de Gruyter

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Publisher
de Gruyter
Copyright
Copyright © 2015 by the
ISSN
1847-9375
eISSN
1847-9375
DOI
10.1515/bsrj-2015-0010
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Abstract

Abstract Background: This study investigates the determinants of industrial productivity growth from a network perspective. Objectives: The research focuses on the influence on a focal industry’s productivity growth by its partner industries’ productivity growth, and the impact of the focal industry’s position in the supply chain network. Method/Approach: The paper models the economy as a customer-supplier industry network and empirically investigates how a focal industry’s multifactor productivity is influenced by the productivities of industries that are connected to it, and how this influence is moderated by its position in the network. Results: Based on a balanced panel dataset of 55 industries from the United States Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) input-output accounts, the results indicate that a focal industry’s productivity growth is positively associated with its partner industries’ productivity growth, and that industries with higher centrality in the network tend to have higher productivity growth. Conclusions: The study concludes with a discussion on the implications of the findings and the contribution to the productivity literature. Several directions for further research were identified.

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Business Systems Research Journalde Gruyter

Published: Sep 1, 2015

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