Explaining productivity in a poor productivity region
通过对旅游主导的低生产率农村地区餐厅经理的访谈，发现他们追求产品质量和生活质量而非高生产率，定价策略、管理目标和市场特征显著影响该地区的生产率价值。
Productivity is the preferred measure of firm-level efficiency and perceived to reflect resource use rates. Semi-structured interviews with restaurant managers in a tourism-dominated low productivity rural area reveal that they are motivated to supply products that they believe in and to sustain a quality of life that meets their needs rather than striving to achieve higher productivity. Pricing strategies, managerial objectives and local market characteristics are found to radically influence the area’s productivity value. An area’s productivity value might not be an indicator of resource use rates or productive efficiency, and could instead reflect resident managers’ motivations towards money and the presence of opportunities to achieve scale economies.