Search Results - subject:"Benchmarking"

Daraio, Cinzia; Simar, Léopold; Wilson, Paul W. - 2019

The issue of quality and its relationship with efficiency and performance is a crucial operational issue in many fields of study including production economics, operations research, engineering and business management. In this paper we provide a methodology for identifying latent quality...

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Methodological notes on composite indicators for monitoring working conditions

Tanguiane, Andranick S. - 2018

Several devices in designing composite indicators for policy monitoring and benchmarking are discussed: weighting and …

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Does happiness matter to health system efficiency? : a performance analysis

See, Kok Fong; Yen, Siew Hwa - In: Health economics review 8 (2018) 33, pp. 1-10

Background The main objective of this study is to assess the performance of the global health system, emphasising the contribution of people’s happiness to health system efficiency across countries. Technical efficiency (TE) scores are estimated using the output-oriented variable returns to...

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Rationale for the use of benchmarking in territorial development

N. G., Kuznetsov; P. A., Golota - 2018

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Executives' short-term and long-term incentives - a distributional analysis

Haylock, Michael - 2020

Executives are often paid for short-term changes in shareholder wealth, but rational shareholders want executives to maximize long-term shareholder wealth. Incentives for short-term and long-term oriented behavior may depend on an executive's level of pay in the distribution, holding other...

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Taking education to the next level : what can be learned from benchmarking education across economies?

Chun, Natalie; Gentile, Elisabetta - 2020

Benchmarking is intended to help gauge where economies rank relative to others. However, historically educational … benchmarking has often elected to use indicators based on their ease of availability, rather than a clear and defined link between … inputs and learning outcomes. In this paper, we present a new approach to benchmarking. Developing and undertaking a …

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