As adopting information and communications technology to deliver instruction and facilitate learning, course management systems (CMSs) offer an alternative capability to enhance management practices. Based on innovation diffusion theory, this study explores CMS effectiveness (EF) and reliability...

This study explores the positive effects of environmental commitments and green intangible assets on green competitive advantages of companies in Taiwan. The results show that environmental commitments and green intangible assets are positively associated with green competitive advantages....

The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between work values and career orientation for employees in high-tech production. The importance of the high technology industry, acknowledged to be at the most advanced stage of highly developed technology presently available, and is...

Law 68 of March 12, 1999, whose aim is to regulate and promote the employment of disabled people, has contributed significantly to the employment of persons with disabilities, and consequently to their social inclusion. In particular, article 13 of this law offers exemption from national...

China’s economic boom has brought about environmental dark sides, i.e., serious air, water, and solid waste pollutions. As the largest developing countries in the world, China’s road toward economic-environmental balance is even complicated since there are various regions of diversified...

Measuring the performance of Non-Profit Organizations (NPOs) is a complicated issue: data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a popular quantitative tool in the past literature. However, the subjective opinions of NPOs could disturb their actual performance, and this problem is seldom considered. In...

Performance evaluation is more than a quantitative concept but should also take industrial characteristics into account in order to form an accurate evaluation. In the past, evaluations of the operational performance of knowledge-based industries have missed out a significant factor, which is...

This paper presents a hybrid model to conducting performance measurements for Internet banking by using data envelopment analysis (DEA) and axiomatic fuzzy set (AFS) clustering. For each bank, DEA is applied to select a best combination by computing an aggregated efficiency score based on...

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has become an established tool in comparative analyses of efficiency strategies in both the public and the private sector. The aim of this paper is to present and apply a newly developed, adjusted DEA model – emerging from a blend of a Distance Friction...