Throughout this research, efficiency levels of the European railway industry are analyzed using non‐parametric methods … on these firms’ efficiency of organizational change due to their adaptation to the environment in which they operate … part of the technical efficiency of European railway companies is a consequence of scale inefficiencies. In other words …

efficiency, using stochastic frontier regression and data envelopment analysis (DEA) methods. Both methods give average ARL cost … efficiencies of around 80 percent. This places academic ARL libraries in the same range of efficiency as other institutions …, including for‐profit and non‐profit institutions. Many libraries are above 80 percent efficiency. For those below, some …

for the changes, including the emulation of the private sector as a model of accountability and efficiency, and increasing …

would yield benefits, via greater efficiency, to the industry, customers and the nation. Examines first the extent to which …. Shows that the financial evidence does not substantiate the Government’s claims. Finds that greater efficiency, meaning … lower costs relative to output, did not occur. Significant increases in efficiency had occurred prior to privatization …

The introduction of efficiency auditing in Australian Commonwealth state audit created a level of stress and threat for … Efficiency Audit Division (1978‐84) which had been established within the Australian Audit Office to develop efficiency auditing … methods and to carry out efficiency audits. It documents for the first time a level of executive intrusion in state audit …

The efficiency audit programme of the Australian Audit Office, which began officially in 1979, was the first … ambitious proposals for reform of the Australian Audit Office that bear marked similarities to those advanced when efficiency …