Variable Factor Productivity (TVFP) and bias of technical change are estimated and illuminated using figures for isoquant maps …

Numerous bank productivity studies indicate rapid changes in the structure of the financial services industry and … background of two concepts of performance evaluation – the terms efficiency and productivity, and empirically, the performance … evaluation of banks, i.e., the measurement of the productivity and research results of previous authors’ studies of the European …

This study presents patterns of productivity change in a large set of 266 public higher education institutions (HEIs … confidence intervals for Malmquist indices of HEI productivity and their components. Consequently, we are able to assess … statistical significance of the changes in HEIs’ productivity, efficiency and technology. Our results suggest that when we treat …

In this paper, we investigate productivity growth in 55 major Australian urban water utilities using nonparametric …, we decompose productivity growth into technical efficiency and technological change. The results indicate that annual … productivity growth averaged 1.04 percent across all utilities and was largely attributable to efficiency gain, roughly equally …

productivity growth (TFPG) into technical change and efficiency change. Färe et al. (1994) measure TFPG by taking geometric mean of … productivity estimates of these two indexes are broadly similar. Our empirical results based on Indian Sunrise industries data … indicate that the transition period of economic liberalization experiences high productivity decay despite high technical …

This work examines the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and dynamic productivity change of … the association between CSR and productivity change has different signs and effects on specific inputs or investments. We … also find that only certain aspects of CSR participate in the association between CSR and dynamic productivity change and …

Performance Measurement Systems (PMS) are widely used, yet the evidence for their effect on productivity is still … industry and that endogenous growth will likely lead to reduce productivity. We conclude that higher quality PMS positively and … significantly correlates with higher productivity …

Decision making in companies requires an assessment of the efficiency and productivity of individual inputs to provide … insights into the scope for improvement of inputs׳ use. This paper estimates an input-specific Luenberger productivity growth … aggregated productivity change and its components computed from the input-specific productivity indicator are different from …

A new decomposition of the Malmquist productivity index is proposed to account for changes in plant capacity … methods of incorporating capacity utilization changes into measures of productivity change. Such measures are based on …

This article first reviews the well-known nonparametric methods of decomposing productivity growth and finally argue … that Färe et al. (1994)’s method of computing productivity growth is superior in spite of the fact that this model model is … sample of 60 steel units in India over the period 1989-1996 to decompose the productivity growth into its various components …