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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Productive Efficiency"”.
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A Complex Adaptive Systems Analysis of Productive Efficiency
… Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) thinking and efficiency analysis remain in their infancy. This research associates the basic building blocks of the CAS 'flocking' metaphor with the essential building block concepts of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Within a proposed framework DEA …
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Dominance Based Measurement of Environmental Performance and Productive Efficiency of Manufacturing
The concept of efficiency measurement is based on the definition of a frontier that envelopes observed production plans. The effect of pollution on productive efficiency is typically studied by considering pollution as not freely disposable (i.e., there is a cost incurred to dispose of pollution) …
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Estimated changes in workers' productive efficiency in United States industries, 1939-1947
Thesis (M.B.A.)--Boston University
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Essays on Productive Efficiency, Trade, and Market Power: Evidence from African Manufacturing Firms
This thesis examines three main themes, firms productive efficiency, internationalisation of African firms, and effect of liberalisation policies on market power and market imperfections. The thesis combines two main strands in economics literature in accessing the three main themes of the papers. …
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Ownership, efficiency and the modern enterprise : a theoretical perspective
… is compared on the basis of allocative and productive efficiency. At the outset, it is shown how the traditional advantage of owner-managed private firms over their public counterparts in respect of productive efficiency is weakened by the presence of allocative inefficiency in the private …
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Evaluating System Performance in a Complex and Dynamic Environment
Realistically, organizational and/or system efficiency performance is dynamic, non-linear, and a function of multiple interactions in production. However, in the efficiency literature, system performance is frequently evaluated considering linear combinations of the input/output variables, without …
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An examination of the post-acquisition performance of bank acquisitions
… Evaluation of post-acquisition changes in productive efficiency, leverage, and portfolio mix are the basis for the analysis. The magnitude and types of performance changes that have occurred in the banking industry are a significant public interest concern due to banks' role in local, …
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Punjab’s Public Private Partnership Programmes in Education
… potential impact of PPPs on freedom of choice, productive efficiency, equity and social cohesion. The access related finds reflect that PPP schools tend to locate in disadvantaged districts, and children who attend both public and PPP schools come from similar socio-economic backgrounds. PPP …
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Innovation, Management and Public Policies: Three Essays on Firm Productivity and Efficiency Analysis
Productivity, i.e., the efficiency with which nations, industries and firms use resources to achieve economically valuable results, is perhaps the most important measure available to policy-makers to gauge the health of an economic system. Early empirical explorations based on country- or …
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Timber supply in dynamic general equilibrium
… perfect information, perfect competition, and productive efficiency, timber supply is a dynamic process. Different discrete-time dynamic timber supply models and their solution methods are compared and their common elements derived. A continuous-time model is derived, but not solved. The …
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An economic analysis of uniform capitalization of inventory costs under §263A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986
… thought the changes would increase the economic efficiency of the tax system. These changes, called uniform capitalization, are analyzed by a mathematical model in this dissertation. The results reverse the conventional wisdom of the Treasury and show that the changes lead to less, not more …
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Efficiency and financial sustainability of sugarcane Farmer Cooperatives in Eswatini
… the industry. This is imperative to enhance the productive efficiency of farmers and to improve their welfare. This study assessed the efficiency and operational sustainability of the 114 sugarcane Farmers Cooperatives (FCs) in The Kingdom of Eswatini from 2014 to 2017. The Stochastic Frontier …
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An investigation into the disbursement processes of the vocational education training levy in Namibia
… design only, an investigation into the productive efficiency and effectiveness of TVET graduates sponsored by the NTA and evaluation of employers’ perspectives of the NTA levy.
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From the ground up : an agent-based model of regional structural change
… This contrasts with the finding that productive efficiency, and purchasing and market power at the farm level is not a necessary condition for the observed consolidation of farm assets.
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Creditor rights, entrepreneurship, and productivity
… Thus, refocusing operations and improving productive efficiency via resource reallocation are important channels through which enhanced creditor rights can facilitate the turnaround of firms in technical default.
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Privatization of highway public corporations in Japan
… why they do not have an incentive to improve productive and allocative efficiency. Then, it introduces the cases of denationalization of the Japan National Railways (JNR) and of Autostrade S.p.A., a highway concessionaire in Italy. These cases showed significant improvement of productive …
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Efficiencies of small-scale sugarcane growers in the King Cetshwayo District Municipality of KwaZulu-Natal
… to develop strategies to promote agricultural efficiency and productivity. Sugarcane is a traditional crop produced in three provinces in South Africa and it contributes to the livelihoods of many small-scale sugarcane growers operating in the rural set-up. This thesis aimed to evaluate …
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A BIM-based Interoperability Platform in Support of Building Operation and Energy Management
Building energy efficiency is progressively becoming a crucial topic in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) sector. Energy management tools have been developed to promise appropriate energy savings. Building energy simulation (BES) is a tool mainly used to analyze and compare the …
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Measuring Performance in Complex Adaptive Systems: An Agent-Based Approach to Managerial and Technological Change
… this research uses advanced models from the efficiency measurement paradigm, such as the Malmquist Index (MI) and Hicks-Moorsteen Index (HMI). These models can track improvements in how resources are used (efficiency) and progress in innovation or technology (productivity shifts), considering …
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On macroeconomic policy, effective demand and unemployment : the European experience
… instability in the labour markets have harmed productive efficiency and most importantly the creation of additional capacity on which employment could be encouraged. Therefore, a case for policies designed to boost aggregate demand is made. In pursuing our objective, a post Keynesian …
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