<title>Abstract</title> This paper evaluates the productivity changes in Taiwan's port industry for the period 2003--2007. Based on a ‘three-year-window’ data envelopment analysis method, Luenberger productivity indicators are employed to estimate the productivity changes that account for the success of...

For many countries, the best way to counter an influenza pandemic is to provide citizens with a pandemic vaccine. However, since the global supply of the vaccines is far smaller than the quantity demanded, how to allocate the limited vaccines can be a very challenging task for them. In this...

Purpose – Constructing a fuzzy control chart with interval-valued fuzzy data is an important topic in the fields of medical, sociological, economics, service and management. In particular, when the data illustrates uncertainty, inconsistency and is incomplete which is often the. case of real...

This work develops a theory of countercyclical bank mergers and finds supported empirical evidence in Taiwan. Procyclical (countercyclical) mergers tend to involve higher (lower) measures of merger activities during economic booms than downturns. Several previous studies suggest that bank...

This article characterizes the production process of commercial banks as three components: service activities, investment-related activities, and risk management activities, and assesses performance for these components, including service efficiency, investment efficiency, and risk management...

The deployment of statistical process control in the service process is a prominent global phenomenon in recent years. In this paper, we proposed the optimal variable sample size and sampling interval (VSSI) mean square error (MSE) control chart to monitor the difference between the process mean...