This article introduces a new approach, cross-frontier analysis, for estimating the relative efficiency of alternative organizational forms in an industry. The technique is illustrated by analyzing a sample of stock and mutual property-liability insurers using nonparametric frontier efficiency...

This paper investigates X-(in)efficiency of innovation processes in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). We have adopted the following approach: (a) we provide both a concept of X-(in)efficiency and a model of innovation processes for each SME; (b) from this model we evaluate both the...

This paper investigates the performance of information technology (IT) investments in a sample of 15 Tunisian banks over the period 1998–2009. We employ the standard Stochastic Frontier Approach on panel data to generate estimates of cost efficiencies. The study is enhanced by a comparison...

Part I -- Chapter 1. Framing the Institutional Complexity of Public Administration: Coexisting Performance Regimes in Contemporary Governance -- Chapter 2. Dynamic Performance Management: A Methodological Framework to Enhance Public Value-driven Performance Regimes -- Part II -- Chapter 3....

This paper examines the impact of vertical integration on the dynamics of performance over the automobile product development life cycle. Building on recent work in organizational economics and strategy, we evaluate the relationship between vertical integration and different dimensions of...

Heterogenous banking supervision and regulation is often considered as the most important impediment for Pan-European Bank mergers. In this paper we identify other more fundamental reasons for a limited degree of cross-country integration in retail banking. We argue that the distribution of...

Since the early 1990s an unprecedented process of consolidation has taken place in the banking sector in most industrialised countries raising concern of policymakers that it may reduce access to credit for the small business sector. While most of the existing empirical studies have focused on...