Empirical applications for assessing the efficiency in cultural organizations are still scarce. In this paper, we use a … non-radial, output-oriented, DEA model for assessing the efficiency of a sample of 292 Musical Societies in the Valencian … territoriality. The achieved results show that the average efficiency of the Musical Societies stands at 72.66% and points out to the …

Efficiency is an important consideration for those who manage public services. Costs vary with output and with a … these factors into account, costs vary across providers because of differences in efficiency. Such differences offer clues … about good practice that can lead to improvements in the system as a whole. The role of efficiency is illustrated by …

This paper analyzes national and regional efficiency and total factor productivity of Spanish hotels. The nonparametric … frontier DEA methodology has been used to assess the levels of efficiency of the hotel firms and Malmquist indices to estimate …. The results also show the rates of change in productivity in the period and its main determinants: efficiency change and …

efficiency estimates, which are - from a theoretical point of view - expected to be rising in course of transition of a formerly …

benefits that might ensure them long-term increase in efficiency and development. One of the ways to gain economic advantage is … in better economic results. Companies use various sets of indicators for measuring economic and operational efficiency … efficiency of logistics processes based on the unit costs which arise in the areas recognized as logistic. The research problem …

decomposing TFP into a scale effect, a technical change effect and an efficiency effect for total food processing and its selected … TFP in recent years, and the efficiency effect varies rather strongly. Whereas scale effect and technical change have a … similar pattern across industries, the efficiency effect differs significantly. There is also some indication that the …

levels of productivity and efficiency of seaports in India. This paper applies DEA technique to assess productivity and … efficiency of seaports in India. Design/Research methods: DEA technique is extensively used in the literature of economics to … provide measures of firms' technical efficiency. These measures rank the firms by looking at their apparent performances over …

This study explains the differences and variances in the efficiency scores of the Vietnamese banking sector retrieved … mainly based on frontier efficiency measurements, which essentially are Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic … efficiency, whilst the opposite is true for the data type, and sample size. …

background of two concepts of performance evaluation - the terms efficiency and productivity, and empirically, the performance …

panel are employed to obtain measures of efficiency for those journals belonging simultaneously to the areas of 'economics …' and 'social science, mathematical methods' in the Web of Science database. This efficiency is measured in terms of the …