To discipline managers, various governance measures are being developed. They include stock options, shareholder lawsuits, hostile takeovers, and outside directors. In the literature, some studies have found evidence supporting the introduction of these measures, but others have found evidence...

This study investigates the efficiency of Japanese credit cooperatives using a stochastic directional distance function approach and compares the results obtained from a slack-based data envelopment analysis model (SBM). Moreover, it focuses on the differences in the four groups classified by a...