Technological change and technical efficiency in the Malaysian mobile telecommunications industry

This paper explores and analyzes the change in the productivity of Malaysian mobile telecommunications industry during the period 1996 to 2001. The data consists of a panel of five mobile service providers in Malaysia namely Celcom, DiGi, Maxis, TimeCel and TM Cellular. Productivity has been measure...

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Main Author:	Mohamad, Noorihsan
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English
Published:	2004
Subjects:	HE9713 Cellular telephone services industry. Wireless telephone industry T173.2 Technological change
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/9137/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/9137/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/9137/1/9137.pdf

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spelling	iium-91372015-08-27T06:20:51Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/9137/ Technological change and technical efficiency in the Malaysian mobile telecommunications industry Mohamad, Noorihsan HE9713 Cellular telephone services industry. Wireless telephone industry T173.2 Technological change This paper explores and analyzes the change in the productivity of Malaysian mobile telecommunications industry during the period 1996 to 2001. The data consists of a panel of five mobile service providers in Malaysia namely Celcom, DiGi, Maxis, TimeCel and TM Cellular. Productivity has been 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 Malaysian mobile telecommunications industry. Low level of efficiency change in the industry indicates a great potential for the industry to increase productivity through higher utilization of technology as well as technological knowledge dispersion. Continuous training programs to familiarize and improve technical expertise appear to offer better prospects for Malaysian mobile telecommunications industry to achieve greater productivity growth. 2004-11-13 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/9137/1/9137.pdf Mohamad, Noorihsan (2004) Technological change and technical efficiency in the Malaysian mobile telecommunications industry. In: The Ninth International Convention of the East Asian Economic Association, 13th-14th Nov. 2004, Hong Kong. (Unpublished) http://www.eaeaweb.com/eaea9program.pdf
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description	This paper explores and analyzes the change in the productivity of Malaysian mobile telecommunications industry during the period 1996 to 2001. The data consists of a panel of five mobile service providers in Malaysia namely Celcom, DiGi, Maxis, TimeCel and TM Cellular. Productivity has been 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 Malaysian mobile telecommunications industry. Low level of efficiency change in the industry indicates a great potential for the industry to increase productivity through higher utilization of technology as well as technological knowledge dispersion. Continuous training programs to familiarize and improve technical expertise appear to offer better prospects for Malaysian mobile telecommunications industry to achieve greater productivity growth.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Mohamad, Noorihsan
author_facet	Mohamad, Noorihsan
author_sort	Mohamad, Noorihsan
title	Technological change and technical efficiency in the Malaysian mobile telecommunications industry
title_short	Technological change and technical efficiency in the Malaysian mobile telecommunications industry
title_full	Technological change and technical efficiency in the Malaysian mobile telecommunications industry
title_fullStr	Technological change and technical efficiency in the Malaysian mobile telecommunications industry
title_full_unstemmed	Technological change and technical efficiency in the Malaysian mobile telecommunications industry
title_sort	technological change and technical efficiency in the malaysian mobile telecommunications industry
publishDate	2004
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/9137/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/9137/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/9137/1/9137.pdf
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