Data centre energy consumption is expected to increase organisational costs and CO2 emissions. Greening data centres can decrease these negative impacts. As a result, examining the antecedents to approaches for greening data centres in order to facilitate their widespread adoption is critical....

Purpose ? The purpose of this paper is to identify some key issues for the analysis of corporate governance based on the papers within this special issue including the Guest Editor's perspectives. Design/methodology/approach ? The five papers included in this special issue are summarized and...

Civil service reform is one of the most intractable yet important challenges for governments and their supporters today. However, civil service reform thus far has largely failed. Based on a review of existing literature, this paper presents principles fo

Projects financed by the European Union generate effects on organizations that implement them, on stakeholders and on the regions in which they are implemented. Through these projects the development of regions and the achievement of the European objectives, is wanted. These projects have...

Productivity change and real returns to resources are measured for a sample of farms in south-west Victoria that produce beef. A stochastic frontier production model is estimated from which annual production frontiers and individual farm technical inefficiencies are calculated during the survey...

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a tool for measuring the relative efficiency of decision-making units (DMUs) that perform similar tasks. One of the uses of the DEA is the establishment of benchmarks for inefficient DMUs. These benchmarks play the role of target for inefficient DMUs. However,...

This paper analyses the performance of Italian airports. We construct and estimate a data envelopment analysis, under Charnes, Cooper and Rhodes (CCR), Banker, Charnes and Cooper (BCC) and superefficiency models, in order to obtain efficiency scores for 14 airports for the period 2009-2011. In...

This article provides a summary of the concept chosen and the efforts undertaken so far in order to establish a viable and reliable system of Croatian commercial diplomacy serving well and going hand in hand with the needs of Croatian exporters and foreign investors in Croatia. In the...

Over 90 percent of companies are estimated to use IT Service Management (ITSM) frameworks, yet there is little research on their benefits to the Information Technology (IT) department and the business units. An international survey of 491 firms was conducted to assess the benefits of the IT...