Notes that, over the past decade, a number of computer programs have been designed to assist researchers in the analysis of qualitative data. Acknowledges that all programs will help to take some of the tedium out of the clerical tasks associated with qualitative data analysis and some programs...

In 1988, Byrnes, Färe, Grosskopf and Lovell define a decomposition of inefficiency differentials into scale and congestion components. This note shows that the decomposition may be sensitive to the order in which the two components are calculated, and, consequently, use of the decomposition may...

Date Envelopment Analysis (DEA) employs mathematical programming to measure the relative efficiency of Decision Making Units (DMUs). This paper is concerned with development of indicators to determine whether or not the specification of the input and output space is supported by data in the...

This article discusses whether the Japanese government should break up NTT (Nippon Telegraph & Telephone) in 1995, as the U.S. federal government compelled AT&T (American Telephone & Telegram) to break itself into toll and local telephone companies in 1984. The divestiture of NTT has long been a...