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Incentives and Service Quality in the Restaurant Industry: The Tipping – Service Puzzle
Azar, Ofer H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
Tipping is a significant economic activity (tips in the US food industry alone amount to about $42 billion annually) that was claimed to improve service quality and increase economic efficiency, because it gives incentives to provide excellent service, and therefore allows to avoid costly...
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Tipping, firm strategy, and industrial organization
Azar, Ofer H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Tipping is a phenomenon that has been studied for many years, but is receiving increased attention in recent years. The magnitude of tips is very large – in the US, for example, tips in the food industry alone amount to about $42 billion each year, and tips are given in many other...
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Islamic equity funds: an Italian perspective
Stefano, Collina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Fuelled by the skyrocketing commodities prices and the booming middle-classes in emerging economies, the Islamic equity funds industry has been in the recent years one of the fastest growing sector in the global finance panorama. This paper discusses the peculiar characteristics of an Italian...
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A nonparametric analysis of the Greek renewable energy sector
Halkos, George; Tzeremes, Nickolaos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper applies a bootstrapped Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) formulation aiming to evaluate the financial performance of the firms operating in the Greek renewable energy sector. With the use of financial ratios in a DEA setting, efficiency ratios are constructed in order to analyse...
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Performance evaluation using bootstrapping DEA techniques: Evidence from industry ratio analysis
Halkos, George; Tzeremes, Nickolaos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) context financial data/ ratios have been used in order to produce a unified measure of performance metric. However, several scholars have indicated that the inclusion of financial ratios create biased efficiency estimates with implications on firms’ and...
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Practices of working capital policy and performance assessment financial ratios and their relationship with organization performance
Niazi, Ghulam Shabbir Khan; Hunjra, Ahmed Imran; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The purpose this study is to highlight the application of working capital policy and the performance assessment financial ratios and to determine their relationship with organization performance. The target respondents were the finance executives/financial analysts of the companies. 64 properly...
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Penggunaan Binary Logit untuk Prediksi Financial Distress Perusahaan Yang Tercatat Di Bursa Efek Jakarta
Pasaribu, Rowland Bismark Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This study aimed to establish the financial distress prediction in a public company listed on the Jakarta Stock Exchange specifically incorporated in the trading industry. The samples used in research are all public companies incorporated in the trading industry 2002-2006 period. This study used...
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Modeling Bankruptcy Prediction for Non-Financial Firms: The Case of Pakistan
Abbas, Qaiser; Rashid, Abdul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
ratios covering four important financial attributes namely profitability, liquidity, leverage, and turnover ratios) were …
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Analysis of Stock Screening Principles in Islamic Mutual Funds Industry
Shaikh, Salman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
a favorable Current and Quick ratio but shareholders are not exactly happy when the company has immense liquidity …. Excess liquidity implies the company has excess funds, but it has not invested them in its operations fully. There is a trade …-off between profitability and liquidity companies have to make. Cash equivalents and marketable securities usually yield a return …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008476372
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Efficiency Measures of the Greek Banking Sector: A Non-Parametric Approach for the Period 1997-1999
Halkos, George; Salamouris, Dimitrios - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
This study explores the efficiency of the Greek Banking sector with the use of a number of suggested financial efficiency ratios for the time period 1997-99. A non-parametric analytic technique (Data Envelopment Analysis) is employed for measuring efficiency. The suggested model in our analysis...
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