This chapter defines the concepts of this Handbook - performance, productivity, efficiency, and profitability - and … discusses the interrelations. The most prominent performance measure, total factor productivity growth, is grounded in activity … a component of the Farrell efficiency measure, but it is the other way round: The sway of Debreu's coefficient is far …

Productivity in Ecuador -- Hierarchical performance and unobservable heterogeneity in health: A dual-level efficiency approach …This proceedings volume examines state-of-the art of productivity and efficiency analysis and adds to the existing …, dynamics of productivity change, measures of labor productivity, measures of technical efficiency in different sectors …

über die produktive Effizienz kommen kann. Die Autoren stellen den Ansatz der nichtparametrischen Frontierfunktionsanalyse …