›› 2019, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (4): 70-82.

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Study on Technical Efficiency and Its Antecedents of Civilian-Military Integrated Firms

Wang Pingping1,2, Chen Bo1,2   

  1. 1. Institute of Defense Economics and Management, Central University of Financeand Economics, Beijing 100081;
    2. Center for Global Economics and Sustainable Development, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing 100081
  • Received:2018-08-08 Online:2019-04-28 Published:2019-04-26

Abstract:

Defense firms are the main actors in the implementation of civilian-military integration strategy. Thus, the estimation and analysis on civilian-military integrated firms' technical efficiency is vital. Based on classical economic theory, this study explains the emergence of civilian-military integrated firms and their attributes, proposes explanatory factors of technical efficiency, and constructs a stochastic frontier model which includes technical inefficiency. Estimation based on 66 firms over the period of 2008~2016 indicates that functional diversity of top management team and equity concentration have an inverted U-shaped effect on technical efficiency respectively, innovation input has significantly positive effect on technical efficiency, and the proportion of state-owned shares has no significant effect on technical efficiency. Furthermore, the technical efficiency is low for most of the 66 firms but improves slowly during the observation period, and firms vary a lot at the value as well as the growth rate of technical efficiency.

Key words: civilian-military integrated firms, technical efficiency, stochastic frontier analysis