Farm management skills can affect farm managers' performance. In this article, farm management performance is analyzed …

Limited inquiry into cooperative governance and performance suggests that best practices from corporate governance …, expectations of better performance by larger cooperatives with smaller boards are confirmed, while mixed evidence is obtained on … of governance choices requires consideration of trade-offs between financial performance and effectively serving other …

The impact of experience on entrepreneurial performance has been widely tested. Although experience is expected to … positively impact performance, results are varied. This research synthesizes the current literature by determining systematic … and form of experience tested pose a major impact on the probability of obtaining a positive estimate for the experience-performance …

This study analyzes difference in efficiency among the U.S. rural hospitals using a two-stage, semi-parametric approach … on the efficiency of these hospitals while Medicare prospective payment system for non-CAH rural hospitals has a positive … effect on hospital efficiency. …

the proposed methodology that provides robust farm efficiency scores estimates. Using the 2007 Farm Accountancy Data … Network (FADN) data for Greece, analysis shows that the distribution of efficiency scores is closer to normality when … employing regression quantiles, while underestimation of efficiency obtained by other parametric or deterministic methods based …

incidence and ultimately on agricultural efficiency. We use a non-parametric method to estimate agricultural efficiency … health production function is used to estimate the impact of malaria incidence on agricultural efficiency. Data come from the … is expected to reduce agricultural efficiency by 0.07; in other words, ten percent increase in malaria incidence will …

This study examines technical efficiency of Critical Access Hospitals (CAH) using a two-stage approach and bootstrap … procedures for making valid inference about the impact of environmental variables on CAH efficiency. In the first stage, a data … envelopment analysis (DEA) efficiency estimator is used to estimate technical efficiency of each hospital in the sample. In the …