Productivity growth and efficiency improvements are the major sources of economic development. Pure efficiency, scale efficiency, and technology are basic factors, and rules and regulations and balance are recently known factors affecting the productivity growth. This paper focuses on the effect of manpower ethics and physical space facilities of bank branches as two factors affecting the Malmq...

This study develops a framework that combines different management science methods to provide insights concerning the performance of retailing stores. First, the framework enables to specify appropriate targets for stores of a retail network using data envelopment analysis. This involves comparing stores within homogenous groups, that is, supermarkets and hypermarkets. Second, the framework com...

Enhancing the economic and environmental efficiency of municipal solid waste (MSW) management is crucial for transitioning to a circular economy achieving cost-efficient sustainable practices. In this study, we introduce an innovative approach examine influence MSW recycling on performance over multiple years. We employ non-parametric method assess compare Malmquist Productivity Index (MPI) Mal...

Environmental problem is a worldwide focus, so as the effect of environmental regulation on economic. In this paper, we constructed a model including energy consumption and integrated pollutant emissions of "Three wastes" as "bad" output. This paper used Malmquist–Luenberger based on directional distance function to measure TFP and environmental regulation cost of Chinese 36 industries from 200...

Using panel data from China’s tobacco manufacturing industry 2014 to 2018, the DEA-Malmquist method is used measure green total factor productivity of on basis comprehensive consideration environmental pollution and energy consumption. The study found that Malmquist index basically showed a fluctuating upward trend; technical level 2014-2017 needs be improved, 2017-2018 has begun improve.

______________________________________________________ Abstract The purpose of this study was to analyse the development of productivity and efficiency in the production of hospital care in Finland during the period 1988-1994. A special interest was directed to the impact of health care financing reform in 1993. The analysis is based on the Malmquist index approach using linear programming. Pos...