for meaningful first- stage efficiency estimates and second-stage regression. After some confusion in the literature … are appropriate. The results reveal a significant relation between efficiency and all the variables analysed and that …

This study develops a measure of the efficiency of visiting nurse (VN) agencies in Japan, examining the issues related … to the measurement of efficiency, and identifying the characteristics that influence efficiency. We have employed a data … envelopment analysis to measure the efficiency of 108 VN agencies, using the numbers of 5 types of staff as the input variables …

assessing not only technical efficiency of operations, but also for scale efficiency and calculation of optimal scale sizes. The …

">1957</CitationRef>), researchers have developed several methods for measuring efficiency. Nowadays, the most prominent representatives …

This paper analyses the productive efficiency of 141 public hospitals from 1998 to 2004 in two Canadian provinces; one … changes in productivity during this time period, and the relationship between efficiency and the size or scale of the … of ‘own’ and ‘meta’ technical efficiency frontiers, we demonstrate that efficient units in the larger and more urban …

The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between the efficiency of governance structure and financial …

The paper investigates the efficiency of entrepreneurial processes in European Union member states and Croatia as a … paper argue that the efficiency of the transformations of one entrepreneurship wave to another can be measured by Data …

Based on the seminal paper of Farrell (1957), researchers have developed several methods for measuring efficiency …