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Productivity Accounting offers in-depth analysis of variation in business performance, providing an analytical framework which accounts for causes and consequences.
List of contents
1. Introduction; 2. Profitability change: its generation and distribution; 3. Decomposing the productivity-change and price-recovery-change components of profitability change; 4. Profit change: its generation and distribution; 5. Decomposing the quantity-change and price-change components of profit change; 6. Decomposing the productivity-change component of profit change; 7. Productivity and cost; 8. Productivity, capacity utilization, and return on assets.
About the author
Emili Grifell-Tatjé is currently Professor of Management and Business Economics in the Department of Business at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and former head of department and academic director of the doctoral programme in Economics, Management and Organization. He has received research grants from academic and private institutions, and has been awarded visiting appointments by various universities around the world. Professor Grifell-Tatjé has published in a wide range of academic journals.C. A. Knox Lovell is Honorary Professor with the Centre for Efficiency and Productivity Analysis in the School of Economics at the University of Queensland. He served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Productivity Analysis for a decade. He has authored several books, including Production Frontiers (with Färe and Grosskopf) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (with Kumbhakhar) for Cambridge University Press.
