Assessing the Productivity of the UK Retail Sector
Assessing the Productivity of the UK Retail Sector
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评估英国零售业的生产力
DOI：
10.1080/09593960500119416
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发表时间：
2005
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P. Ormerod
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作者：
Jonathan Reynolds;E. Howard;D. Dragun;B. Rosewell;P. Ormerod
最近的几项比较研究表明，英国零售业与其他国家，特别是法国和美国相比，存在劳动生产率差距。本文旨在通过对现有数据和相关研究的概述，确定英国零售生产率与全球竞争对手相比的程度，并试图就决定零售生产率的因素达成共识，同时强调零售商和政府在衡量未来生产率趋势时使用的共同绩效指标。所采用的方法包括审查已发表的研究;在英国和少数领先的零售商在美国的行业参与者的采访;和一个专门创建的数据库的性能超过200美国，英国和法国的零售公司的分析。作者发现，这是不明智的，得出明确的结论，从总体国际经济分析的部门，各种各样的效率指标，该部门在实践中采用，并有显着差异的结构，经营和监管环境的零售业在英国施加的成本，不一定在其他国家的零售商。
Several recent comparative studies have shown a labour productivity gap in respect of UK retailing when compared with other countries, notably France and the USA. This article seeks to identify, through an overview of existing data and related research, the extent to which retail productivity in the UK compares to global competitors and attempts to reach a consensus on the factors that determine retail productivity, while highlighting common performance measures for retailers and Government to use in measuring future productivity trends. Methods employed include a review of published studies; interviews with industry participants in the UK and a small number of leading retailers in the USA; and an analysis of a specially created database of the performance of over 200 US, UK and French retail companies. The authors find that it is unwise to draw definitive conclusions from aggregate international economic analyses of the sector; that a wide variety of efficiency indicators are employed by the sector in practice; and that there are significant differences in the structure, operating and regulatory environment for retailing in the UK which impose costs on retailers that are not necessarily incurred in other countries.