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Technological change and technical efficiency in the Malaysian mobile telecommunications industry

This paper explores and analyzes the change in the productivity of Malaysian mobile telecommunications industry during the period 1996 to 2001. The data consists of a panel of five mobile service providers in Malaysia namely Celcom, DiGi, Maxis, TimeCel and TM Cellular. Productivity has been measure...

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Main Author: Mohamad, Noorihsan
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2004
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HE9713 Cellular telephone services industry. Wireless telephone industry
T173.2 Technological change
Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/9137/1/9137.pdf
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spelling my.iium.irep.91372015-08-27T06:20:51Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/9137/ Technological change and technical efficiency in the Malaysian mobile telecommunications industry Mohamad, Noorihsan HE9713 Cellular telephone services industry. Wireless telephone industry T173.2 Technological change This paper explores and analyzes the change in the productivity of Malaysian mobile telecommunications industry during the period 1996 to 2001. The data consists of a panel of five mobile service providers in Malaysia namely Celcom, DiGi, Maxis, TimeCel and TM Cellular. Productivity has been measured by the Malmquist index, using a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) technique. The Malmquist productivity measures are decomposed into two components:efficiency change and technical change index. The results showed that Total Factor Productivity (TFP) has increased significantly for the whole industry in which technical change has been the most important source of productivity growth to Malaysian mobile telecommunications industry. Low level of efficiency change in the industry indicates a great potential for the industry to increase productivity through higher utilization of technology as well as technological knowledge dispersion. Continuous training programs to familiarize and improve technical expertise appear to offer better prospects for Malaysian mobile telecommunications industry to achieve greater productivity growth. 2004-11-13 Conference or Workshop Item REM application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/9137/1/9137.pdf Mohamad, Noorihsan (2004) Technological change and technical efficiency in the Malaysian mobile telecommunications industry. In: The Ninth International Convention of the East Asian Economic Association, 13th-14th Nov. 2004, Hong Kong. (Unpublished) http://www.eaeaweb.com/eaea9program.pdf
institution Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia
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topic HE9713 Cellular telephone services industry. Wireless telephone industry
T173.2 Technological change
spellingShingle HE9713 Cellular telephone services industry. Wireless telephone industry
T173.2 Technological change
Mohamad, Noorihsan
Technological change and technical efficiency in the Malaysian mobile telecommunications industry
description This paper explores and analyzes the change in the productivity of Malaysian mobile telecommunications industry during the period 1996 to 2001. The data consists of a panel of five mobile service providers in Malaysia namely Celcom, DiGi, Maxis, TimeCel and TM Cellular. Productivity has been measured by the Malmquist index, using a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) technique. The Malmquist productivity measures are decomposed into two components:efficiency change and technical change index. The results showed that Total Factor Productivity (TFP) has increased significantly for the whole industry in which technical change has been the most important source of productivity growth to Malaysian mobile telecommunications industry. Low level of efficiency change in the industry indicates a great potential for the industry to increase productivity through higher utilization of technology as well as technological knowledge dispersion. Continuous training programs to familiarize and improve technical expertise appear to offer better prospects for Malaysian mobile telecommunications industry to achieve greater productivity growth.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Mohamad, Noorihsan
author_facet Mohamad, Noorihsan
author_sort Mohamad, Noorihsan
title Technological change and technical efficiency in the Malaysian mobile telecommunications industry
title_short Technological change and technical efficiency in the Malaysian mobile telecommunications industry
title_full Technological change and technical efficiency in the Malaysian mobile telecommunications industry
title_fullStr Technological change and technical efficiency in the Malaysian mobile telecommunications industry
title_full_unstemmed Technological change and technical efficiency in the Malaysian mobile telecommunications industry
title_sort technological change and technical efficiency in the malaysian mobile telecommunications industry
publishDate 2004
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/9137/1/9137.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/9137/
http://www.eaeaweb.com/eaea9program.pdf
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