Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to measure the efficiency of UK airlines in light of all the recent industry … challenges. Design/methodology/approach – The study measured the technical efficiency of airlines through the innovative data … the efficiency of UK airlines has continuously declined since 2004 to reach a value of 73.39 per cent in 2007. Factors …

We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational … outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable …