The recent drop in oil prices has challenged public sector financing in Kuwait. Technical and scale efficiency scores for fifteen public hospitals in Kuwait from 2010 to 2014 were estimated using a two-stage data envelopment analysis (DEA). Technical efficiency scores were regressed against...

Purpose of the study: To critically analyse the financial growth pattern and the overall performance efficiency of industrial machinery companies in India.Design/Methodology/Approach: The data collected from the financial statement of the companies for 10 years from 2007-2008 to 2016-17 were...

Purpose of the study: To critically analyse the financial growth pattern and the overall performance efficiency of industrial machinery companies in India.Design/Methodology/Approach: The data collected from the financial statement of the companies for 10 years from 2007-2008 to 2016-17 were...

An obvious measure of efficiency or productivity is the ratio of output to input. When there are multiple outputs and/or inputs one approach is to take weighted combinations before calculating the ratio. How should these weights be chosen? In comparing the efficiency of organizational units data...

This study includes three major sections, first one is efficiency and the latter one is productivity. The terms efficiency and productivity headlines are composed of subsections; according to their definitions, importance and specific properties. Subsections are provided to explain the topic...

The connection between inventory leanness and various dimensions of financial return has been explored in many previous research studies. However, there is still a void in the literature regarding the mechanism that is responsible for the consequences of inventory leanness on the firm’s...

This study documents a strong inverse relationship between accident rates and production in a sample of eleven firms in the same narrowly defined industry classification. Given the detailed set of input controls and controls for plant-specific and time-specific factors used in the analysis, the...

Antebellum critics of slavery argued that it was responsible for the relative inefficiency of free southern farms. We examine this issue, employing a stochastic production function, which allows us to distinguish between technological superiority and technical inefficiency, and controlling for...

The paper investigates whether the poor productivity performance of the European business services industry is related to scale effects, market structure, and regulatory impacts. We apply parametric and nonparametric methods to estimate the productivity frontier and so obtain the distance of...

Public service spending is an important issue with great economic, social and political ramifications. Consequently, correct measurements with respect to productivity evaluation of such expenditures is of paramount significance. Motivated by evaluating public services from a non-parametric...