Productivity Growth in the Malaysian Mobile Telecommunications Industry (2004)

This paper analyzes the changes in productivity of Malaysian mobile telecommunications industry from 1996 to 2001. The data consist of a panel of five mobile service providers in Malaysia, namely Celcom, DiGi, Maxis, TimeCel and TM Cellular. Productivity is measured by the Malmquist index, using a...

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Main Author:	Mohamad, Noorihsan
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	International Islamic University 2004
Subjects:	HA29 Theory and method of social science statistics HB131 Methodology.Mathematical economics. Quantitative methods HD2321 Industry HE7601 Telecommunication and industry. Telegraph
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/9028/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/9028/1/Productivity_Growth_in_the_Malaysian_Mobile_Telecommunications_Industry.pdf

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spelling	iium-90282013-07-06T04:32:22Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/9028/ Productivity Growth in the Malaysian Mobile Telecommunications Industry (2004) Mohamad, Noorihsan HA29 Theory and method of social science statistics HB131 Methodology.Mathematical economics. Quantitative methods HD2321 Industry HE7601 Telecommunication and industry. Telegraph This paper analyzes the changes in productivity of Malaysian mobile telecommunications industry from 1996 to 2001. The data consist of a panel of five mobile service providers in Malaysia, namely Celcom, DiGi, Maxis, TimeCel and TM Cellular. Productivity is measured by the Malmquist index, using a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) technique. The Malmquist productivity measures are decomposed into two components: efficiency change and technical change index. The results showed that Total Factor Productivity(TFP) has increased significantly for the whole industry in which technical change has been the most important source of productivity growth to the mobile telecommunications industry. A low level of efficiency change in the industry indicates a great potential for the industry to increase its productivity through higher utilization of technology as well as technological knowledge dissemination. Continuous training programs to familiarize and improve technical expertise appear to offer better prospects for the mobile telecommunications industry to achieve greater productivity growth. International Islamic University 2004 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/9028/1/Productivity_Growth_in_the_Malaysian_Mobile_Telecommunications_Industry.pdf Mohamad, Noorihsan (2004) Productivity Growth in the Malaysian Mobile Telecommunications Industry (2004). IIUM Journal of Economics and Management Sciences, 12 (2). pp. 165-191. ISSN 1394-7680
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description	This paper analyzes the changes in productivity of Malaysian mobile telecommunications industry from 1996 to 2001. The data consist of a panel of five mobile service providers in Malaysia, namely Celcom, DiGi, Maxis, TimeCel and TM Cellular. Productivity is measured by the Malmquist index, using a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) technique. The Malmquist productivity measures are decomposed into two components: efficiency change and technical change index. The results showed that Total Factor Productivity(TFP) has increased significantly for the whole industry in which technical change has been the most important source of productivity growth to the mobile telecommunications industry. A low level of efficiency change in the industry indicates a great potential for the industry to increase its productivity through higher utilization of technology as well as technological knowledge dissemination. Continuous training programs to familiarize and improve technical expertise appear to offer better prospects for the mobile telecommunications industry to achieve greater productivity growth.
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title	Productivity Growth in the Malaysian Mobile Telecommunications Industry (2004)
title_short	Productivity Growth in the Malaysian Mobile Telecommunications Industry (2004)
title_full	Productivity Growth in the Malaysian Mobile Telecommunications Industry (2004)
title_fullStr	Productivity Growth in the Malaysian Mobile Telecommunications Industry (2004)
title_full_unstemmed	Productivity Growth in the Malaysian Mobile Telecommunications Industry (2004)
title_sort	productivity growth in the malaysian mobile telecommunications industry (2004)
publisher	International Islamic University
publishDate	2004
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/9028/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/9028/1/Productivity_Growth_in_the_Malaysian_Mobile_Telecommunications_Industry.pdf
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Productivity Growth in the Malaysian Mobile Telecommunications Industry (2004)

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