The aim of the present paper is to evaluate the efficiency of the Indian general insurance companies and to find out the reason for their inefficiency. The paper intends to rank these companies on the basis of their efficiency. 12 general insurers are studied using Data Envelopment Analysis...

The Government of India made history on October 24, 2000 by once again bringing back insurance business to private companies, which had earlier been abolished 34 years ago. The opening of the insurance sector was facilitated through the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA)....

Web-based corporate reporting has emerged as a fast and effective medium of communicating financial and non-financial information about companies as compared to traditional methods. However, the type of reporting, extent of disclosure, authenticity and standardization of format of disclosure is...