Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine managerial efficiency of the whole population of petrochemical firms in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). It also identifies the root causes of inefficiencies and proposes measures to overcome these. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses the...

The literature on EPZs shows that these are a second-best solution compared with generalised countrywide reforms, but that, where countrywide reforms are difficult to implement, they can be a useful weapon in the development arsenal [World Bank (2001)]. EPZs have been instrumental not only in...

The emergence of a fast-paced dynamic environment in the business world in general, and in the financial services sector in particular, has highlighted the significance of competition and efficiency. The need for deregulation has become a touchstone of success in fostering both competition and...

This article is an attempt to calculate the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)efficiency scores and productivity indices of banks in Saudi Arabia. Our DEA results indicate that technical inefficiency emerges from both scale as well as pure technical inefficiencies. The results on Malmquist...