Abstract
The productivity of the apparel manufacturing industry varies drastically across the globe. Though apparel manufacturing productivity is not so critical for Western industry any more, it can play a significant role in improving competitiveness of apparel manufacturers in developing countries. This paper attempts to share the results of a study aimed at comparing the business practices of apparel manufacturers with high, medium and low levels of productivity performance and to establish the factors associated with higher apparel productivity in India. The findings establish that the higher productivity group, belonging to the fourth quartile of the sample, had about 45% higher productivity performance than the mean of the total sample. The business characteristics of the factories belonging to low, medium and high productivity performance manufacturers were significantly different. These variables also showed association with productivity during correlation and ANOVA for the total sample. The paper presents a brief profile of high productivity factories and provides a list of factors associated with productivity in the Indian apparel industry.
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