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In a recent study (supported by the European Economics Association) P. Kalaitzidakis, T. P. Mamuneas and T. Stengos provide an up-to-date ranking of economic journals that are used to compute world-wide rankings of academic institutions in Economics for the period 1994 to 1998. The results show...
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Ergebnisse der Umfrage des VHB zur wissenschaftlichen Qualität von Zeitschriften im Bereich der Betriebswirtschaftslehre, VHB-JOURQUAL. Insgesamt haben sich 653 Mitglieder und Habilitierende an der Umfrage beteiligt.
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We hypothesise that, given the typically uneven distribution of ethnic groups within acountry, ethnic diversity leads to greater local polarization and more frequent, butsmaller, conflicts that involve only some ethnic groups. These conflicts can beoverlooked if the number of fatalities is...
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Die Abteilungsgliederung als ein Element der Aufbauorganisation stand vor einigerZeit im Mittelpunkt einer Reihe von Optimierungsansätzen. Diese Ansätze konzentriertensich in der Regel auf einzelne Zielsetzungen. In den letzten Jahren ist dasThema jedoch kaum weiterentwickelt worden. Dieser...
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Business schools, both in the UK and internationally, face serious challenges as to their future role and legitimacy.Questions have been raised about the value of the MBA degree, and its role as a preparation for management. Thegrowth of business schools as sites for knowledge production has...
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Most universities in Germany are public firms but they have many properties of co-operatives. The most important thereof are described and analysed together with the characteristics of state-sponsorship. The real companions of the university as a co-operation are its professors. The same is true...
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Non-parametric data envelopment analysis (DEA) estimators based on linear programmingmethods have been widely applied in analyses of productive efficiency. Thedistributions of these estimators remain unknown except in the simple case of one inputand one output, and previous bootstrap methods...
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The traditional approach to measuring allocative efficiency is based on input prices, which are rarely known at the firm level. This paper proposes a new approach to measure allocative efficiency which is based on the output-oriented distance to the frontier in a profit technical efficiency...
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Using a panel data set of 361 German corporations for the period 1991 to 1996 we test the hypothesis that firms with more efficient governance structures have higher profitability. To determine efficiency we compare firms with respect to ownership concentration, the identity of owners, capital...
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This Working Paper gives insights into the concepts of productivity and efficiency. Both conceptsare popular measures for evaluating productive units, either on macro or micro level.This paper provides clear definitions for both concepts and outlines key areas of interest inthis context, such as...
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