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This paper uses Data Envelopment Analysis to measure labor use efficiency of individual branches of a large public … sector bank with several thousand branches across India. We find considerable variation in the average levels of efficiency … efficiency for each region relative to the nation as a whole. Our findings suggest that the policies, procedures, and incentives …
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According to New Institutional Economics, transactional activities, governance structures, institutions and beliefs and values are related hierarchally. Williamson (2000) formalizes this framework to show that each governing level must be aligned with the adjacent level for transaction costs to...
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enterprise by promoting efficiency and effectiveness. To be successful in today's economic environment requires the use of a … calculations system and management costs. Purpose of calculating costs is to identify cases not only transfer the cost objects …. This approach shows the ability of the system for calculating the cost of providing an analysis linking financial …
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efficiency in different countries and under alternative policy approaches. The key findings are as follows. First, strong scale … subsidisation was also evident in a survey of thirty-one payment systems. Second, the minimalist approach was more efficiency … enhancing than the competitive and public service policy alternatives, due to higher cost-reducing effects, stronger private …
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efficiency in different countries and under alternative policy approaches. The key findings are as follows. First, strong scale … subsidisation was also evident in a survey of thirty-one payment systems. Second, the minimalist approach was more efficiency … enhancing than the competitive and public service policy alternatives, due to higher cost-reducing effects, stronger private …
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conditions of continuous improvement methods and techniques of organization and management within the unit. Cost and cost … features such as multiple facets to facilitate continuous improvement towards business unit. Cost awareness represents a … activities costs are only a facet of cost accountancy. Managers are also concerned with the future of costs, their level lying on …
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joint cost function, we ascertained the productive efficiency of the Spanish airport network. Through this work, we found …This paper attempts to analyse the productive efficiency of the airport industry. The analysis was carried out using … the neoclassical approach of dual cost function. A translog joint cost function was used. Its flexibility enabled us to …
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We investigate the impacts of electricity market restructuring on fuel efficiency, utilization and, new to this area …, cost of coal purchases among coal-fired power plants using a panel data set from 1991 to 2005. Our study focuses … without. Our analysis finds that restructuring led to: (1) a two percent improvement in fuel efficiency for IOs, (2) a ten …
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very important. The quality of electricity supply service largely determines the efficiency of electricity consumption and … economic parameters of the user. In this respect, knowing the influence of power quality on the cost is of particular interest …
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