<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><bold>Background:</bold> This study investigates the determinants of industrial productivity growth from a network perspective.<bold>Objectives:</bold> The research focuses on the influence on a focal industry’s productivity growth by its partner industries’ productivity growth, and the impact of the focal industry’s position in the supply chain network.<bold>Method/Approach:</bold> The paper models the economy as a customer-supplier industry network and empirically investigates how a focal industry’s multifactor productivity is influenced by the productivities of industries that are connected to it, and how this influence is moderated by its position in the network.<bold>Results:</bold> Based on a balanced panel dataset of 55 industries from the United States Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) input-output accounts, the results indicate that a focal industry’s productivity growth is positively associated with its partner industries’ productivity growth, and that industries with higher centrality in the network tend to have higher productivity growth.<bold>Conclusions:</bold> The study concludes with a discussion on the implications of the findings and the contribution to the productivity literature. Several directions for further research were identified.</abstract>

Background: This study investigates the determinants of industrial productivity growth from a network perspective.Objectives: The research focuses on the influence on a focal industry’s productivity growth by its partner industries’ productivity growth, and the impact of the focal industry’s position in the supply chain network.Method/Approach: The paper models the economy as a customer-supplier industry network and empirically investigates how a focal industry’s multifactor productivity is influenced by the productivities of industries that are connected to it, and how this influence is moderated by its position in the network.Results: Based on a balanced panel dataset of 55 industries from the United States Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) input-output accounts, the results indicate that a focal industry’s productivity growth is positively associated with its partner industries’ productivity growth, and that industries with higher centrality in the network tend to have higher productivity growth.Conclusions: The study concludes with a discussion on the implications of the findings and the contribution to the productivity literature. Several directions for further research were identified.

Industry Productivity Growth: A Network Perspective

Business Systems Research Journal

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Background: This study investigates the determinants of industrial productivity growth from a network perspective.Objectives: The research focuses on the...

Industry Productivity Growth: A Network Perspective

Published Online: Oct 20, 2015

Page range: 41 - 51

Received: Aug 11, 2015

Accepted: Sep 13, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/bsrj-2015-0010

Keywords
industry network, multi-productivity, network centrality, network perspective, customer-supplier industry network

© 2015 Joe Teng et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This chapter is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Public License.

Industry Productivity Growth: A Network Perspective

Published Online: Oct 20, 2015

Page range: 41 - 51

Received: Aug 11, 2015

Accepted: Sep 13, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/bsrj-2015-0010

Keywordsindustry network, multi-productivity, network centrality, network perspective, customer-supplier industry network

© 2015 Joe Teng et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This chapter is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Public License.

Keywords
industry network, multi-productivity, network centrality, network perspective, customer-supplier industry network