The main purpose of this paper is the development and validation of a failure classification model for UK public industrial companies using current techniques: logit analysis and Neural Networks. Our dataset consists of 51 matched-pairs of failed and nonfailed UK public industrial firms over the...

In this paper we analyse the efficiency of the Spanish Police Service using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The analysis concentrates on the police activities related to the solving of crimes. The theoretical and empirical study of the policy production function under this dimension leads us to...

Data was collected from the OFSTED database on primary schools in Hampshire, Southampton and Portmouth in order to access the factors that influence their productivity.

A Data Envelopment Analysis model for the joint determinations of efficiencies with variable returns to scale is developed. The model is applied to the study of the performace of individual specialities of National Health Services (NHS) trust in UK.

Up to what point do financial statements of firms reflect changes in the Economy? We adress this question using European Union data. European countries have a service, normally under the name of Central Balance Sheet Office, charged with the collection and aggregation of financial information...

A geometrical interpretation of multiple regression is proposed. The method is explained within the context of the tourism industry by developing a model for the management of hotels. The paper first explains the technique in non-mathematical terms and is completed with the mathematical proof of...

The first part of this paper considers the cognition of individuals ans groups of individuals in the context of organisational project risk analysis and management, and attempts to characterise a set of models of cognition which may be of value as conceptual tools for risk analysts and managers....

This paper describes some preliminary findings of an ethnographic inquiry into a steel mill pruchased by its employees through a stock option scheme in the early 1980's to avoid closure by its parent company.