efficiency -- Part I -- Chapter 3: Shephard’s input and output distance functions: cost and revenue efficiency decompositions … -- Chapter 4: The generalized distance function (GDF): Profitability efficiency decomposition -- Part II -- Chapter 5: The …This book unifies and extends the definition and measurement of economic efficiency and its use as a real …

Bhattacharyya, Levent Kutlu, and Robin C. Sickles -- 14. Aggregation of individual efficiency measures and productivity indices … measurement of efficiency, productivity, growth and performance. These concepts are commonly measured residually and difficult to … quantify in practice. In real-life applications, efficiency and productivity estimates are often quite sensitive to the models …

-- Chapter 3. Efficiency Driven Socio-Technical System Design -- Chapter 4. A Framework for the Assessment and Consolidation of …The volume examines the state-of-the-art of productivity and efficiency analysis. It brings together a selection of the …, measures of technical efficiency in different sectors, frontier analysis, measures of performance, industry instability and …

Chapter 1. Estimating Efficiency in the Presence of Extreme Outliers: A Logistic-Half Normal Stochastic Frontier Model … -- Chapter 14. Quantile DEA: Estimating qDEA-alpha Efficiency Estimates with Conventional Linear Programming. … efficiency analysis. It showcases a selection of the best papers from the 9th North American Productivity Workshop. These papers …

The risk and the management of sustainability in business processes -- Research on the improvement of business … processes in global companies -- project management and risk in business performance considering sustainability … about continuously improving them. Contents The risk and the management of sustainability in business processes Research on …

Nutrition -- Food markets -- Agriculture -- Meat industry and fisheries -- Agricultural trade -- Biodiversity and … Agriculture Meat industry and fisheries Agricultural trade Biodiversity and organic farming Alternatives The Author Christian J …

Introduction -- A Brief Review of Literature- International and Indian -- Fisheries Sector in India - An Overview … -- International Trade in Fisheries: India and its Global Partners -- Study Area and Methodology. . …This book on the fisheries sector in India, through primary surveys as well as secondary literature, brings out various …

Introduction to the Application of Game Theory in Fisheries Management -- Basic concepts in game theory -- Introduction … to Non-cooperative Fisheries Games -- Two-Player Cooperative Games -- Cooperative Games in Fisheries with more than two … Players -- Non-cooperative Coalition Formation Games in Fisheries -- Other fishery game approaches -- Conclusions. …