There is a global trend toward more production, use, and sale of services by manufacturing firms. This phenomenon is known as the servicification of manufacturing. Services inputs as well as services activities within manufacturing firms account for over half of the value of manufacturing...

This paper examines the technical efficiency of the Spanish textile industry for the period 1995-2005, by estimating a stochastic production function. The empirical findings show that in the first half of the period most of the textile groups displayed high levels of efficiency, which can be...