teaching performance of universities. For this purpose, I develop a theoretical model, moving from the framework of yardstick … competition (YC), to describe the functioning of a competition model based on comparing performance of institutions. Then, I apply … effectively improves the universities' performance, which is also influenced by other factors, namely the characteristics of the …

The aim of this paper is to study the effect of management factors on enterprise performance, considering a survey that … and enterprise performance are formalized by a Simultaneous Equation Model based on the generalized maximum entropy (GME …

This paper examines financial professionals' overconfidence in their forecasting performance. We compare individuals …' self-rating of performance with the true performance, both measured relative to the same peer group. The forecasters in our …

analyze the firms' financial performance in three categories: market value, profitability, and operating efficiency. We find … financial performance than others. For instance, Physical Creators (which we call Manufacturers) and Physical Landlords have …

’s performance, by proposing and testing a conceptual model about Individual Entrepreneurship Capacity, and its impact both on non …-economic and economic performance. This constitutes an innovative approach in the sense that uses information collected at the … the relationship among types of capital and entrepreneurial performance. A model where the individual entrepreneurship …

When do foreign banks have an advantage operating abroad and when not? Studying the performance of foreign banks in a … their performance and help reconcile some contradictory results found in the literature. …

European Union recommends that companies in the Member States annually evaluate the performance of their boards. The degree of … that need to be put into place to ensure the suitability of boards of directors and to evaluate the performance of both the …

performance of genetic algorithms for global optimization. Here, a counterexample to Hamming-distance based FDC is examined for … that predictors for genetic algorithm performance are vulnerable if they are based on arbitrary properties of the search …-distance based FDC analysis, evolvability analysis, and other methods of predicting GA performance. …

We use a comprehensive dataset of Funds-of-Hedge-Funds (FoFs) to investigate performance, risk and capital formation in … superior performance over time. In keeping with this implication, we provide evidence that even successful hedge funds have … experienced a recent, dramatic decline in risk-adjusted performance. …

communicated vision, prioritised objectives and appropriate performance metrics. With any business strategy and investment project …