Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the interrelationships among default risk, capital and efficiency of … efficiency levels and trends of individual banks. This paper then used a model of seemingly unrelated regression equations (SURE …) to examine the interrelationships among default risk, capital and efficiency. Findings – This study found a two …

efficiency of Ghanaian banks within the universal banking era. Design/methodology/approach – The stochastic frontier analysis … (SFA) technique is employed on annual data of 26 Ghanaian banks from 2003 to 2011 to estimate cost and profit efficiency … diversification into non-interest generating activities on estimated cost and profit efficiency scores while controlling for other …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the operational efficiency and effects of market concentration and … diversification on the efficiency of Chinese and Indian banks in the 1997-2011 period. Design/methodology/approach This study employs … the two-stage bootstrap procedure of Simar and Wilson (2007) to obtain valid inferences on the efficiency scores and the …

” employees and line managers to square the circle of increased competition, improved efficiency/productivity and financial …

, effectiveness and efficiency. Design/methodology/approach – The survey conducted for this study was addressed to Spanish … small- to medium-sized firms, the present study shows that levels of competitiveness, effectiveness and/or efficiency in …, effectiveness and efficiency achieved. Originality/value – The value provided by this research lies in the sample examined, in its …

whether Australia’s universities increased their efficiency in a manner consistent with the demands of government to provide … improvement of 15.2 per cent from 2007 to 2013, but there was little average individual institutional change in efficiency …

purpose an evaluation model, based on two criteria – namely efficiency and fairness – and on a number of sub‐criteria, is used …. A comparison of the systems’ efficiency reveals that the French system is the least efficient while the Swedish system …

This exploration of management history focuses on mass entertainment media to determine the history of the efficiency … expert in popular culture. It reviews the history of the image of the efficiency expert in film and on American … is a sharp change from the efficiency expert as an amusing and relatively harmless character to a malevolent one who is …