Quite a few studies have considered efficiency at the bank branch level by comparing mostly a single branch network, while an abundance of studies have focused on comparing banking institutions. However, to the best of our knowledge no study has ever assessed performance at the level of the...

The influence of information technology on organizational structures has been extensively discussed in the literature (Hall, 1987; Lincoln and Kalleberg, 1990). Organizational structures typically have to be adapted in order to accommodate a new technology or change in accounting method, instead of...

The main focus of this article is to discern the ontological meaning of concepts related to sustainability. This fits within Linda Starke’s (1990) “hopeful signs” about the need for new ways of thinking about our common future instead of merely continuing with concrete policy changes...

A vivid but fragmented research tradition traces the economic ethic to religious beliefs and practices. The problem has a broad social- scientific relevance, referring to the more general problem of the societal relevance of religious practices and convictions on the one hand, and to the...

This paper focuses on the construction of a composite indicator for the knowledge based economy using imprecise data. Specifically, for some indicators we only have information on the bounds of the interval within which the true value is believed to lie. The proposed approach is based on a...

Students evaluations of teacher performance (SETs) are increasingly used by universities and colleges for teaching improvement and decision making (e.g., promotion or tenure). However, SETs are highly controversial mainly due to two issues: (1) teachers value various aspects of excellent...

As is well-known, surfaces in a 3-dimensional Euclidean Space can be represented locally by means of several types of equations. Although these are mathematically equivalent, this choice of representation can make a difference when it comes to visualizing the surface. More precisely, some...

This article proposes and applies a method to estimate the revenues of beggars in Brussels (Belgium). This is relevant for three reasons. First, though the literature on the informal economy assumes that the income will be low, we lack reliable empirical knowledge of informal street-level...

We study divisor methods, the primary class to solve apportionment problems, based upon Stolarsky means S_;_. These encompass the .ve traditional methods. We disclose a one-to-one relation between methods of the form S_;1 and aggregate measures of seat/vote disproportion- ality of the...

This study examines the idiosyncratic manager-specific influence on a corporate cash policy. Although traditional economic theories such as trade-off theory and agency theory have already contributed to a deeper understanding of corporate cash policy, we examine whether the integration of...