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Output and Input Efficiency of Manufacturing Firms in India: A Case of the Indian Pharmaceutical Sector

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  • Mainak Mazumdar

    (Institute for Social and Economic Change)

  • Meenakshi Rajeev

    (Institute for Social and Economic Change
    University of Connecticut,)

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This paper examines the competitiveness of Indian pharmaceutical firms by computing their technical efficiency for the period 1991 to 2005 using the non–parametric approach of data envelopment analysis (DEA). The analysis establishes that even though the output efficiency levels of firms reveal a declining trend, firms have been able to make efficient use of labour and raw material inputs. An analysis carried out to identify the determinants of technical efficiency reveals that in contrast to popular belief, neither R&D and export expenditure nor the use of imported technology improve the technical efficiency of firms.

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  • Mainak Mazumdar & Meenakshi Rajeev, 2009. "Output and Input Efficiency of Manufacturing Firms in India: A Case of the Indian Pharmaceutical Sector," Working Papers 219, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore.
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    1. Ahmed, Gulzar & Arshad Khan, Muhammad & Afzal, Muhammad, 2015. "Trade Liberalization and Industrial Productivity: Evidence from Pakistan," MPRA Paper 70744, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 15 Mar 2016.
    2. Padmavathi N, 2019. "Technical efficiency of unorganised food processing industry in India: A stochastic frontier analysis," Working Papers 449, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore.
    3. Varun Mahajan & D. K. Nauriyal & S. P. Singh, 2018. "Efficiency and Its Determinants: Panel Data Evidence from the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry," Margin: The Journal of Applied Economic Research, National Council of Applied Economic Research, vol. 12(1), pages 19-40, February.
    4. Varun Mahajan & D. K. Nauriyal & S. P. Singh, 2020. "Domestic market competitiveness of Indian drug and pharmaceutical industry," Review of Managerial Science, Springer, vol. 14(3), pages 519-559, June.
    5. Ricardo F. Díaz & Blanca Sanchez-Robles, 2020. "Non-Parametric Analysis of Efficiency: An Application to the Pharmaceutical Industry," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 8(9), pages 1-27, September.
    6. Shallu Arora & Meena Sharma & A. K. Vashisht, 2017. "Impact of managerial ability and firm-specific variables on insider’s abnormal returns," DECISION: Official Journal of the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Springer;Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, vol. 44(4), pages 275-286, December.
    7. sethi, Kalyani & mishra, Dr. Bikash Ranjan, 2023. "An assessment of traditional knowledge-based medicine companies and western medicine companies: a comparative study of efficiency," MPRA Paper 116182, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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    Pharmaceutical Industry; Efficiency;

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