The Science of Management and the Art of Flexibility: Assessing the Impact of JIT Using CES-Translog Toral Cost Function.
This paper combines ideas that are well founded in the production inventory management literature with analytical approaches that have ben long established in the economic theory literature, to reveal and explore production function characteristic differences between JIT producers and non-JIT producers among electronic firms in Ontario, Canada. Yhe methodology employed is the estimation of CES-TL total cost system.
L10 - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance. General ; L11 - Production, Pricing, and Market Structure Size; Size Distribution of Firms