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Salesperson Efficiency Benchmarking Using Sales Response Data: Who is Working Hard and Working Smart?
Bielecki, Andre; Albers, Sönke; Mantrala, Murali - 2012
the process of internal efficiency benchmarking of a firm’s sales representatives aimed at identifying strong and weak … DEA benchmarking that simply uses raw sales calls as input measures, the proposed model that uses more ‘processing’ of the …
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Preference for variety
Kaiser, Karen; Schwabe, Rainer - 2011
We consider a decision maker who enjoys choosing from a varied set of alternatives. Building on behavioral evidence, we propose testable axioms which characterize preference for variety, and provide a representation theorem. We go on to illustrate the potential effects of preference for variety...
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AНАЛИЗ ОБОЛОЧКИ ДАННЫХ (DEA) – СОВРЕМЕННАЯ МЕТОДИКА ОПРЕДЕЛЕНИЯ ЭФФЕКТИВНОСТИ ПРОИЗВОДСТВА
Lissitsa, Aleksej; Babiéceva, Tamara - 2003
Анализ оболочки данных (DEA) - это относительно новая методика измерения технической эффективности. Если сформулировать техническую эффективность определенного...
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Environmental effects of consumption: An approach using DEA and cost sharing
Keiding, Hans - 2002
In the paper we propose an to evaluation of the environmental effects of consumption activities. The approach consists of two steps, namely (1) assignment of environmental effects to consumption activities, for which we propose to use the methods of (multidimensional) cost sharing, and (2) a...
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Valuing Environmental Factors in Cost-Benefit Analysis Using Data Envelopment Analysis
Kuosmanen, Timo - 2006
Environmental cost-benefit analysis (ECBA) refers to social evaluation of investment projects and policies that involve significant environmental impacts. Valuation of the environmental impacts in monetary terms forms one of the critical steps in ECBA. We propose a new approach for environmental...
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Monte Carlo simulations of DEA efficiency measures and hypothesis tests
Kittelsen, Sverre A. C. - 1999
The statistical properties of the efficiency estimators based on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) are largely unknown. Recent work by Simar et al. and Banker has shown the consistency of the DEA estimators under specific assumptions, and Banker proposes asymptotic tests of whether two subsamples...
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International benchmarking of electricity distribution utilities
Førsund, Finn R.; Edvardsen, Dag Fjeld - 2001
Benchmarking by means of applying the DEA model is appearing as an interesting alternative for regulators under the new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284240
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Benchmarking sustainable development: A synthetic meta-index approach
Cherchye, Laurens; Kuosmanen, Timo - 2004
The need for monitoring countries’ overall performance in sustainable development (SD) is widely recognized, but the methods for aggregating vast amounts of empirical data remain rather crude. This paper examines the so-called ‘benefit of doubt’ weighting method as a tool for identifying...
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Anforderungen an Einzelhandelsgutachten
Wolf, Michael - In: Einzelhandel in Nordrhein-Westfalen planvoll steuern!, (pp. 114-134). 2012
When considering the development of large-scale retail facilities the question of their impact on their surroundings is … always relevant. In order to answer this question retail assessments are indispensible. However, the results and indeed the … importance for judging large-scale retail projects, ensuring that municipal planners can access sufficient informative material …
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Regulation and UK retailing productivity: evidence from micro data
Haskel, Jonathan; Sadun, Raffaella - 2009
with a lowering of chain TFP by about 0.4% pa, about 40% of the post-1995 slowdown in UK retail TFP growth. The foregone …
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