Disruptive events with damaging consequences afflict supply chains across industries. The survival of the business and its consequent recovery depend on the supply chain's resilience. This exploratory article discusses how technology-driven real-time decision-making in a connected supply chain...

Since the process of economic reform began in China, the Chinese banking system has grown impressively. The aim of this paper is therefore to examine the differences in operational efficiency between China's state-owned commercial banks (SCBs) and shareholding commercial banks using pooled...

В статье осуществлена оценка операционной эффективности как фактора формирования стратегий позиционирования продукции аграрных предприятий в Украине на...

This study assesses the relative performance of Greek equity funds employing a non-parametric method, namely Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Specifically, we evaluate the funds’ total productivity change using the DEA-based Malmquist Index. Our results reveal significant losses in funds’...

The paper studies the impact of bank specific, industry specific and macroeconomic factors affecting profitability of Indian Banks in a dynamic model framework. The persistence of bank profits and endogeneity of the factors have been accounted for using Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) as...

In this paper, we adopt the network data envelopment analysis model in lieu of the multi-stage data envelopment analysis model to evaluate the operational efficiency of financial holding companies and their subsidiaries; the advantage of the network data envelopment analysis model is that it...

We introduce a simple game between two rival firms---a leader and a follower, where the leader moves first and makes an operational choice under uncertainty. The leader's disclosure of its resulting financial success or failure may in turn give the follower a competitive advantage by informing...

In the past few years, the government has developed and installed a unique model of performance-based budgeting known as the Organizational Performance Indicator Framework (OPIF). The OPIF demonstrates the relationship between an agencys programs, activities and projects (PAPs), the goods and...

This paper evaluates the performance parameters of five photovoltaic (PV) modules comprising crystalline silicon, multi-crystalline silicon and edge-defined film-fed growth (EFG) silicon technologies. This evaluation was accomplished by measuring and analysing the modules' performances during...

This study applied DEA method to compare operational efficiency of South Korean and Vietnamese general public hospitals. Thirty general public hospitals from Vietnam and thirty one from South Korea were included. The operation of the targeted Vietnam public hospitals varied greatly in their...