Competitive pressures and demanding business environments emphasise the importance of a firm's technological capabilities as a source of sustainable competitive advantage. Firms are increasingly looking at better ways of managing their technological resources over the long-term through the...

This paper develops a new grouping approach in using data envelopment analysis as a framework to identify management groups and group performance leaders. The management group relies on the fact that branches grouped together present similar managerial preferences over performance goals and...

Natural gas hydrates (NGH) can only exist under low temperature (generally below 10 °C) and high pressure (generally above 3.8 MPa). The prerequisite for investigations of NGH sediments is a sampling technique that prevents its volatiles during recovery. In this paper, some pressure and...

The banking industry has been the object of DEA analyses by a significant number of researchers and probably is the most heavily studied of all business sectors. Various DEA models have been applied in performance assessing problems, and the banks' complex production processes have further...

There are two key motivations for this paper: (1) the need to respond to the often observed rejections of efficiency studies' results by management as they claim that a single-perspective evaluation cannot fully reflect the operating units' multi-function nature; and (2) a detailed bank branch...

Purpose: This paper aims to identify current challenges that hinder university–industry (U-I) collaboration in Pakistan and presents future opportunities for promoting such collaborations in developing countries. Design/methodology/approach: This exploratory study presents new empirical...

One of the major challenges inside firms is how to effectively manage their knowledge assets in the context of managing the transfer of technological knowledge across the firm’s organizational boundaries. This paper explores technological knowledge flows and the coordination of knowledge...