Host: The Japan Society for Management Information
While global competition becomes intensified, the lower productivity of the domestic commercial industry is frequently pointed out. However the ex post evaluation on productivity of individual firm has been rarely done regardless of manufacturing or non-manufacturing. Thereupon, the production function, in which ordinary profit is brought by machinery investment, information investment and personnl expense, is applied to analyze financial data of securities report on the the productivity of major commercial firms and to compare with the similar evaluation by the author on manufacturing industry.
