Evaluating scale economics impact of commerce automation on retailtrade in Taiwan

摘要

The economies of scale for the commerce automation adopters andnonadopters are measured from a Taiwanese national survey of retailtrade, respectively. In this paper, the production function is specifiedas an additive nonparametric model for the empirical study. The findingsof this paper show that the impact of altering the contour of economiesof scale through commerce automation drives is significant