| Research (year) | Period | Primary Data Source)/Scale | Objectives | Major Findings |
| Goldar [7] | 1951-1979 | Industry level Data (ASI)/ 8 manufacturing industries | Determine productivity growth for manufacturing industry | Results indicate that productivity fluctuates across industries |
| Krishna and Mitra [16] | 1986-1993 | Firm level panel data (CMIE)/ 4 manufacturing industries | Investigates the effects on competition and productivity | Found strong evidence of an increase in competition and some evidence of an increase in productivity growth |
| Kulshreshtha and Parikh [10] | 1985-1997 | Industry level Data (ASI)/ Coal Industry | Study efficiency and productivity of coal sector | Declining of productivity has been reported in most of the cases |
| Goldar and Kumari [9] | 1981-1998 | Industry level Data (ASI)/ 17 manufacturing industries | Compare growth rate of TFP in the 1990s, with that in the 1980s | Estimated productivity growth in the 1990s is found to be about the same as in the 1980s. |
| Unel [17] | 1979-1988 | Industry level Data (ASI)/ 13 manufacturing industries | Investigates productivity trends during 1980s and 1990s | Labor and TFP growth since 1980s were markedly higher than those of preceding two decades |
| Goldar [8] | 1981-1998 | Industry level Data (ASI)/ 8 manufacturing industries | Compare pre-reforms period (before 1992) with post reforms | No difference in productivity growth between pre-reform and post reform periods |
| Kathuria et al. [14] | 1994-2006 | Firm level data (NSSO and ASI)/ for 15 industries | Analyzed productivity performance of formal and informal sectors | Labor productivity increased in organized sector over time. Labor productivity and capital intensity growth slowed down for unorganized sector |
| Kathuria et al. [1] | 1994-95, 2000-01 and 2005-06 | Firm level Data (ASI)/Formal and informal sectors across 15 major states | Paper computes TFP using SPF, production function and growth accounting | TFP growth of formal and informal sector differed greatly during this period and that the estimates are sensitive to the technique used |
| Mitra et al. [12] | 1994-2008 | Firm level Data (CMIE)/ 8 manufacturing industries | Assess, the role of export and import, R&D, technology transfer, and infrastructure | Results suggest that infrastructure is a crucial determinant of manufacturing performance in India |
| Deshpande and Weisskopf [11] | 1980-2002 | Sector level data (Indian Railway)/ Indian railways | Asses relation between members of marginalized communities and TFP | No evidence for such an effect is found that reservation to marginalized community impacts productivity in fact the opposite is true. |
| Sharma and Mishra [13] | 1994-2006 | Firm level panel data (Prowess)/ 4 manufacturing industries | Explores linkages between trade and productivity performance | Exporters, importers are more productive. Reported positive effect of R&D on labor productivity |
| Mitra et al. [15] | 1994-2010 | Firm level panel data (Prowess)/ 8 manufacturing industries | Find Links among TFP, ICT and infrastructure | The impact of infrastructure and ICT (information and communication technology) is strong on TFP |
| Singh [2] and Singh [18] | 2001-2012 | Firm level panel data (Prowess)/ 3 manufacturing industries | Find the relationship between TFP and technology spillovers | Technology spillovers, productivity gain and internationalization of firms are closely linked |