productivity and efficiency. For the United States in the nineteenth century, it is shown that factories were more efficient than … artisanal shops, and the hypothesis that regional efficiency differences were responsible for different industrial development … paths cannot be confirmed.It is also shown that the american civil war had rather less influence on manufacturing efficiency …

This paper analyzes efficiency and total factor productivity (TFP) change of large agriculturalenterprises during their … efficiency, which is found to be remarkably significant. At the sametime there is a high variation among individual enterprises … performance.The Tobit regression analysis is conducted where the efficiency scores are related tofactors such as farm type, farm …

The first chapter investigates the factors that explain the level of technical efficiency of a firm. In an empirical …-2004 is used. The technical efficiency of the firms is estimated using distribution free assumption and then it is relates to … for another 25 percent and the headquarter's location explains ten percent of the variation in efficiency. Most other firm …

Despite the necessity of close integration between marketing and sales, managers report less than satisfactory results … behaviour to examine the different sub-cultural mental frames that characterize the two functions. A total of 44 salespeople and … between marketing and sales are driven by differences in beliefs about the valid scope and focus of activity, time focus …

(DEA) methodology is used as a benchmarking tool to locate a frontier which is then used to evaluate the efficiency of each …Productivity and efficiency are the tools used in managing performance. This study researches and implements best … practices that lead to best performance. A customer quality defined standard has to be created by benchmarking the Information …

measuredairport efficiency and recreated it by applying the new benchmarking methodologyin two new component benchmarks:• A benchmark … all oftheir stakeholders. Comparative benchmarking is used for evaluating the relativeperformance of airports.An analysis …. Furthermore, benchmarks of airport performance use data ofmultiple dimensions, and such benchmarking without knowledge of utility …

The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA) established a National Recreational Trails Funding … Program and the National Recreational Trails Trust Fund. ISTEA requires that tax revenue generated from the sales of motor …

of impact the increased manufacturing costs caused by higher efficiency requirements will have on appliance sales. We …

In this report we calculate the change in final consumer prices due to minimum efficiency standards, focusing on a … do not increase the amount of labor needed to distribute equipment the same employees needed to sell lower efficiency … equipment can sell high efficiency equipment. Labor is a large component of the total marginal cost to distribute and sell air …