TY - JOUR ID - 57429 TI - Assessment of the Technology Contribution to industry Value Added; Case study Chemical Industries Value Chain in Fars Province JO - Industrial Management Journal JA - IMJ LA - en SN - 2008-5885 AU - Mohamadi, Ali AU - Mowla, Darioush AU - Abbasi, Abbas AU - Askarifar, Kazem AD - Associate Prof., Faculty of Economics, Mamagement and Social Sciences, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran AD - Prof., Faculty of Chemical, Oil & Gas Engineering, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran AD - Assistant Prof., Faculty of Economics, Mamagement and Social Sciences, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran AD - Ph.D. student in System Management, Faculty of Economics, Mamagement and Social Sciences, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran Y1 - 2015 PY - 2015 VL - 7 IS - 4 SP - 861 EP - 879 KW - Chemical Industry KW - Economic Value Added KW - Labor Contribution KW - Technology Contribution KW - value chain DO - 10.22059/imj.2015.57429 N2 - This study is done to define the technological contribution in the value chain of chemical industries and assess the effects of this on industrial’s value added. The value network contains 581 active firms in 5 stages and 21 groups, and date gathered with 141 questionnaires by snowball method. Then the technology contribution and economic value added are defined for each stage and group. Besides the descriptive analysis, the role of technology contribution in value creation is evaluated with correlation analysis. The findings show that value added has a positive correlation to the technology contributionand a reduction of technology share in each firm leads to decreasing operating profit decline and increasing non-technological capital cost, and finally the reduction of value added. Assessment of the groups shows that intermediate, petrochemical, coating, insulation and detergents groups have more impression with technology contribution. With respect to the low relative technology contribution of these groups in Fars province, technology reconstruction and modernization investment in these firms could upgrade value chain. UR - https://imj.ut.ac.ir/article_57429.html L1 - https://imj.ut.ac.ir/article_57429_d95b9dcf8029cfa77d8976944dd054cf.pdf ER -