first English language study in the literature to address the efficiency issue of the Chinese insurance sector, and presents … a comprehensive review on alternative methodologies for analyzing firm efficiency …ch. 1. Introduction -- ch. 2. China's insurance market - development issues -- ch. 3. Review of efficiency studies in …

. Public organizations that fail are more often than not protected and allowed to continue even though their efficiency is …

Introducing the myth of Japanese efficiency -- Wide selection : a myth encountered -- Production malapropisms : the BMW … totalizing myth : Japanese efficiency as a cultural fiction …

Effectiveness and Quality: The Second Generation'], in John Smart (ed) (ed.), Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research …: Harvard Business School Press, 133-58 -- Michael C. Jensen (2002), 'Value Maximization, Stakeholder Theory, and the Corporate …: McGraw-Hill, 47-77 -- Chris Argyris (1973), 'Personality and Organization Theory Revisited', Administrative Science Quarterly …

explores welfare economic evaluations - in terms of efficiency as well as equity and social feasibility - of regulatory … issues of efficiency in the regulation of road transport and part three discusses the issue of equity and social feasibility … versus efficiency. This book will be of interest to students of environmental economics and transport economics and to …

pt. 1. Dynamic capabilities and organisational theory -- pt. 2. Dynamic capabilities and strategic entrepreneurship …