Chapter 1 Introduction: Overview of the Faith-Based Entrepreneurship Research -- Part 1: Faith and Women Entrepreneurship -- Chapter 2 Converging Faith and Entrepreneurship: A Study of Auntie Anne's -- Chapter 3 A Marketplace for the Christian Entrepreneurial Spirit: A Case Analysis of Mary Kay...

This paper aims to measure and analyze the efficiency of the US publicly-held insurance industry from 2011 to 2013. The paper uses a two-stage efficiency model: (1) data envelopment analysis (DEA), a non-parametric model for measuring the efficiency of 141 panel data of US publicly-held...

This paper provides new empirical evidences on determinants of cost efficiency and productivity performance of life and property-casualty insurance firms in Indonesia. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) method is used to investigate the cost efficiency and Total Factor Productivity (TFP) among a...

Managing Service Productivity using Data Envelopment Analysis -- Development of Assessment Model for Research Efficiency of Universities -- Incorporating intra- and inter-input/output weight restrictions in piece-wise linear DEA: an application to the assessment of the research activity in...

Banking institutions, nowadays, serve as intermediaries of funds to a variety of clients, including the micro enterprisers. This study analyzes and measures the performance of rural and thrift banks with microfinance operations in the Philippines, using combined measures of data envelopment...

This research attempts to model performance measurement for the firms listed on Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) using the stochastic frontier approach. There are 121 firms analyzed over the period of 2000-05 with 726 pooled observations. We also test whether firm’s age, size, market share,...