This paper investigates X-(in)efficiency of innovation processes in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). We have … adopted the following approach: (a) we provide both a concept of X-(in)efficiency and a model of innovation processes for each … SME; (b) from this model we evaluate both the dimensions of the innovation processes and the X-(in)efficiency of these …

Most recent studies are based on benchmarking analysis allowing the measure of company efficiency relatively to a … reference performance. Benchmarking is a helpful tool to analyze and promote efficiency in insurance companies. The fast … development of X-efficiency notion makes traditional performance measures (ROA, ROE, etc.) obsolete. Indeed, various methods have …

This paper aims to estimate technical and scale efficiency in the Italian citrus farming. Estimation was carried out … Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) model, respectively. Several studies have compared technical efficiency estimates derived from … parametric and non parametric approaches, while a very small number of studies have aimed to compare scale efficiency obtained …

By this paper we intend to analyze the existing gap in the efficiency of R&D investment, at European level. The method … terms of technical efficiency (TE) thus constitutes the main goal of this research. Small European economies (i.e. Luxemburg … and Sweden) have high levels of research efficiency, while some of the larger ones, namely, United Kingdom, France, and …

more to technological change than technical efficiency change. Sample data showed that devaluation of Cfa franc have had a …

investigating for the first time, both cost and profit efficiency of full-fledged Islamic banks and Islamic window operations of … domestic and foreign banks. The application of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) technique has provided several efficiency … measures such as allocative, pure technical and scale efficiency that explain cost and profit efficiency differentials among …

technical efficiency of Basic Health Units (BHUs) in Sargodha by using the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) with the choice of … inputs and outputs being specific to BHUs operation. DEA model results reveals that the mean technical efficiency under …, Constant Returns to Scale (CRS) and Variable Returns to Scale (VRS) was 0.719 and 0.807 while the mean scale efficiency was 0 …

This research employs the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Malmquist index approaches to evaluate the efficiency and …