Abstract:
In this paper, the efficiency of manufacturing companies of China, one of the countries (BRIC: Brazil, Russia, India, China) that are expected to dominate the world economy in 2050's, and Turkey, that is an attracting emerging market1 with great potential, will be compared. Namely it will be determined the relative performance of Turkish and Chinese manufacturing firms using weight restricted Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Weights of inputs and outputs are estimated by canonical correlation analysis. Mean efficiency of the firms of the two countries are compared by t-test. The result of DEA and statistical analyses indicate that Chinese manufacturing firms are highly efficient than Turkish manufacturing firms on average.
