Productivity is a major concern in the airline and air transport industry. For airlines themselves a lot of research and results has been put forward, for airports themselves such research is scarce. Therefore the following paper is quite interesting as it uses the data envelopment analysis...

This book is the first book that provides comprehensive economic analysis of cross-border outsourcing by Japanese manufacturing firms based on microdata. Previous literature on many other countries has often been constrained by limited data availability about outsourcing, but research contained...

This paper deals with the problem of definition and measurement of the efficiency of agricultural production. Using an agronomical simulation model, it makes comparisons of wheat, maize, sunflower and soybean production in different regions of France, Argentina and the United States. The ability...

Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich erstmalig mit der Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung von Unternehmen aus 13 West-, Mittel- und Osteuropäischen Ländern. Die Arbeit kann in zwei Teile aufgeteilt werden: Zur Darstellung des Status quo und zur Aufdeckung von Unterschieden in der...