QUALITY OF KNOWLEDGE TECHNOLOGY, RETURNS TO PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY, AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Two-stage Production Systems under Variable Returns to Scale Technology: A DEA Approach

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a non-parametric approach for performance analysis of decision making units (DMUs) which uses a set of inputs to produce a set of outputs without the need to consider internal operations of each unit. In recent years, there have been various studies dealt with two-stage production systems, i.e. systems which consume some inputs in their first stage to produce ...

Identifying and Ranking Development Drivers of Knowledge-based Technology-Driven Companies (Case study: Fars Province Science and Technology Park)

The purpose of this Study study is to identify and rank the development drivers of knowledge-based, technology-driven businesses. This work is conducted as a case study in Fars Province Science and Technology Park. It is a descriptive survey in terms of purpose since a part of its data is collected through questionnaires and is of surveying type because it describes the existing conditions. The...

on the relationship between critical thinking, metacognition and translation quality of literary and economic texts

این مطالعه سعی دارد تا رابطه تفکر انتقادی و مهارت های شناختی را به عنوان دو عنصر مهم روانشناسی شناختی با کیفیت ترجمه متون ادبی و اقتصادی بررسی کند. صد دانشجوی سال آخر ترجمه که در مقطع کارشناسی مشغول به تحصیل هستند برای شرکت در این مطالعه انتخاب شدند و آزمون های تافل تفکر انتقادی و مهارت های شناختی از آنها گرفته شد. آزمون ترجمه ادبی و اقتصادی نیز برای تعیین سطح کیفیت ترجمه گرفته شد. یافته های حا...

Returns to Information Technology Outsourcing

T study extends existing information technology (IT) productivity research by evaluating the contributions of spending in IT outsourcing using a production function framework and an economywide panel data set from 60 industries in the United States over the period from 1998 to 2006. Our results demonstrate that IT outsourcing has made a positive and economically meaningful contribution to indus...

Characterizing and finding full dimensional efficient facets of PPS with constant returns to scale technology