Technical efficiency, market share and profitability of manufacturing firms in Cote d'Ivoire: the technology trap
研究了科特迪瓦制造业企业效率低下的原因，发现多数企业技术效率低下且规模不足，效率提升和规模扩大能改善竞争地位和盈利能力，但增长障碍和不完全市场阻碍了技术追赶。
This paper investigates the sources of inefficiency of firms in Côte d'Ivoire and examines to what extent these effects translate into poor performance. A large majority of firms is technically inefficient, producing far below the maximum attainable output level. Major cost savings can also be realised through enlarging the scale of activities of firms. Efficiency gains and scale advantages translate into a better competitive position and via their impact on market share into higher profitability. However, severe growth barriers and imperfect markets keep firms from realising these gains and prevent firms from catching up in technology with respect to their larger, older and often foreign-owned competitors. Copyright 2003, Oxford University Press.