Explaining productivity differences in North Carolina factories
基于北卡罗来纳州95家大型工厂的调查数据，研究识别出高生产率工厂共有的五个主题：简化物料流程、重视员工、关注质量、投资硬件以及考虑行业生产率增长。
Abstract Using detailed survey data collected from 95 large factories in North Carolina, this article examines the reasons why some factories are more productive than others. Six distinct measures of productivity are used as independent variables in the regression analyses reported. The results suggest five major themes that are shared by the most productive plants: simpler flow of materials through the process, valuing people, attending to quality, investing in hardware, and accounting for the industry's productivity growth. Several factors such as size and unionization are of no apparent importance to an explanation of cross‐factory productivity differences.