Using data from the EPA's EGRID and Clean Air Markets databases, we investigate the energy (technical) and emissions (ecological) efficiencies of 437 of the largest U.S. electricity generators. We focus on fossil-fuel based electricity generating plants because of their significant impact on...

Unlike in many other countries, in Bulgaria there are no comprehensive analysis of the state and evolution of the system of knowledge sharing, innovation and digitalization in agriculture (AKIS). The goal of this paper is to fill the gap and analyze the state, efficiency and factors of the...

Este artículo analiza la relación entre la eficiencia productiva y las Redes Sociales Virtuales (RSV) en las empresas de telecomunicaciones en España. En una primera etapa, se aplica el análisis envolvente de datos (DEA) incorporando varios indicadores de actividad “Social Media”. En una...

This paper analyzes the performance implications of interorganizational relationships in the development of technological innovations, focusing on the characteristics of the tasks partitioned between a manufacturer and its suppliers in the development of new products. We identify two critical...

We introduce and test a firm-level innovation-efficiency measure new to the finance literature. The measure, RQ, defined as the firm-specific output elasticity of R&D, was first developed in the management literature. RQ has low correlation with existing innovation input, output and efficiency...

The purpose of the present study is to investigate the economic and social impacts of business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce in the small retail sector of certain commodities in Thailand. A primary sample survey was conducted for the collection of data from the north, northeast, central and...

This study develops a formal theoretical rubric for estimation of the efficiency with which a country progresses on its general equilibrium growth path towards its steady state growth phase. Empirical tests confirm robustness of the metric, and show, contrary to assumptions of growth theory...

This study examines the influence of information constraints on firms' efficiency in using digital technologies, focusing on business websites. Through two natural field experiments in the UK, we provide firms with benchmarked performance information on their websites. The experimental designs...

We study the innovation, efficiency and productivity response to intellectual property (IP) reform vis-à-vis manufacturing industry in India. Studying the response of IP-sensitive industries relative to a control group of IP-insensitive industries, and using the fact that the IP reform was...