Purpose – Based on a sample of foreign‐financed manufacturing firms in southern China, the purpose of this paper is to study the effects of ISO certification on productivity. Design/methodology/approach – The paper employs the stochastic frontier approach to estimate frontier efficiency...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to shed new light on the debate about the appropriateness of the Kaizuka rule, a Samuelson type of efficiency rule for public inputs, for the provision of firm‐augmenting public inputs. Firm‐augmenting public inputs are commonly included in public...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a methodology to study profit vs non‐profit seeking firms usefully to compare corporate performance. It aims to apply the methodology to measure if state vs non‐state firms with different objectives are comparable in performance. If...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate and compare the performance of national R&D organizations in India in terms of their relative efficiencies using a multiple output measurement criteria incorporating the quality of the output measures. Design/methodology/approach – An...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to measure the Malmquist Productivity Index and its different components such as technological change, technical efficiency change and the change in scale efficiency in the Indian food industry during the period spanning 1988‐1989 to 2004‐2005....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the extent of technical efficiency in 27 public sector banks operating in India and to provide strict ranking to these banks. Design/methodology/approach – Two popular data envelopment analysis (DEA) models, namely, CCR model and Andersen...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to investigate technical, scale, allocative and economic efficiencies by data envelopment analysis (DEA) and stochastic frontier methods to provide a decision‐making tool and managerial implications in the measurement of farm business performance and...

When one undertakes a benchmarking study, it is quite typical to collect performance data on a set of business processes from a variety of organizations. While one can compare efficiency on a process-by-process level, how can one compare the overall efficiency of one organization versus another...

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to provide exploratory insights on measurement of efficiency of the hotel and restaurant companies operating in India. Design/methodology/approach – This study will use a linear programming‐based approach, data envelopment analysis (DEA), to...

Biomass has great potential as a clean, renewable feedstock for producing modern energy carriers. This paper focuses on the process of biomass gasification, where the synthesis gas may subsequently be used for the production of electricity, fuels and chemicals. The gasifier is one of the...