Subrata Majumder

Bio: Subrata Majumder is an academic researcher from St. Xavier's College-Autonomous, Mumbai. The author has contributed to research in topics: Total factor productivity & Productivity. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 2 publications receiving 4 citations.

Performance Evaluation Techniques: An Application to Indian Garments Industry

Abstract: One plausible way to assess empirically the impact of reforms in globalization on an industry is by evaluation of its performance under these reforms in the input–output framework.

Productivity Performance of Indian Chemical Sector: Post-Reform Perspective

Abstract: The paper attempts to explain and analyze the dominant role played by the chemical sector in India in both manufacturing as well as in foreign trade in the post-reform period. By using non parametric DEA for four time periods in the post reform era it has been observed that there exists technological heterogeneity across products, indicating meaningful insights in terms of internal characteristics of firms like age and size. Analyzing the performance in the open market we find between 1991 and 2006 a higher export can be explained more by price competitiveness along with a shift from finished and processed chemicals to intermediate goods. To get an idea about product and destination wise outsourcing or subcontracting practices in the sector in the presence of a considerable extent of import of inputs, Intra-Industry Trade analysis is carried out. Finally, an investigation of the performance of the sector through a decomposition of total factor productivity between 2002 and 2006 by using Malmquist Index has been attempted.

Efficiency measurement of fertilizer-manufacturing organizations using Fuzzy data envelopment analysis

Abstract: The aim of the paper is to benchmark the performance of the Indian fertilizer-manufacturing organizations based on the ranking of efficiencies using a fuzzy data envelopment analysis (FDEA). FDEA has been used to find the relative efficiency and ranking of the fertilizer-manufacturing organizations. The last few years’ data have been converted into the fuzzy inputs and outputs as minimum, mean, and maximum values, respectively. The performance of the fertilizer manufacturing organizations is based on the output maximization model of DEA. The frontier organizations set the benchmark for the lagging organizations for further improvement in the performance. This method can also be used to incorporate the data of the several years for multiple inputs and outputs instead of consideration of data of only one year. The proposed approach in this study may help organizations to improve its efficiency to fulfill its goal.

Improving Production Efficiency through Subcontracting and Unorganized Indian Textile and Garment Enterprises: An Impact Evaluation

Abstract: Recent withdrawal of important protective measures and the announcement of the Textile Policy 2000 have marked a shift away from government support and policyguided improvement in the performance of the unorganized Indian Textile and Garment enterprises. The new policy regime has laid greater emphasis on marketdriven linkages between large and small firms in enhancing the latter's performance through various preand post-production supports from the large unit. In this context the paper seeks to assess the new policy orientation critically by examining its effectiveness in supporting the intrinsically heterogeneous unorganized section. Motivated by the findings from a previous work which highlighted that different segments of these enterprises that represent diverse organizational types and operate under varied demand conditions face different structural constraints in accessing such market-driven linkages as subcontracting, the paper attempted to assess the precise impact of participation in these contract jobs on the participants even when there is no participation constraint. With the help of a propensity-score matching analysis we identified the comparable groups to estimate the average marginal effect of subcontracting on selected outcome variables and observed that the contractagreement was not an effective treatment for most segments of the unorganized subcontracting firms. It rather worsened the performance in several cases. The findings suggest the need for designing more effective intervention strategies by incorporating unobserved heterogeneity explicitly in the framework of policy formulation.