Most studies on measuring China's energy efficiency were conducted in the framework of the input-oriented Data … amongst a sample of coal mines, petroleum refineries and power plants in China's energy sector which is specifically targeted …

attain higher levels of productivity and profitability. For this purpose, first, a stochastic frontier production function … also compared with respect to the other measures of performance, namely, productivity and profitability. The result shows … labour (or branch) productivity and profitability between domestic and foreign banks revealed that the same are respectively …

encouraging for policy makers to move toward the decentralized port governance in China. …The Bohai Economic Rim plays an important role in supporting China’s economic growth. For this research, we selected … nine main ports in the region to study whether intra-port competition or corporatization would improve efficiency. Using a …