this study aimed at determining the efficiency of sugar beet growers in borujerd city, iran. data were collected from 2010-11 growing season by random sampling of sugar beet growers and filling 100 questionnaires and analyzed using data envelopment analysis (dea) method. results showed that the average technical, economical and special efficiencies were 0.83, 0.79, and 0.84 in fixed output stat...

The main objective of this study was to apply the non-parametric method of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to measure the efficiency of Greek NHS hospitals between 2009-2013. Hospitals were divided into four separate groups with common characteristics which allowed comparisons to be carried out in the context of increased homogeneity. The window-DEA method was chosen since it leads to increased...

State-owned forestry enterprises are important elements of the forestry economy in China. The operational efficiency of such enterprises depends on technological progress and other input factors. Total factor productivity (TFP) is an important means to evaluate the efficiency of technical elements. The growth of production efficiency can be classified into efficiency variation and technical var...

We decompose labor-productivity growth into components attributable to (1) technological change (shifts in the world production frontier), (2) technological catch-up (movements toward or away from the frontier), (3) human capital accumulation (changes in the efficiency of labor), and (4) physical capital accumulation (movement along the frontier). The world production frontier is constructed us...

Previous research in regional energy efficiency by using macro statistical data has demonstrated that technology development could improve regional energy efficiency. Since the start of reform and opening up in 1978, China has mainly adopted energy import and foreign direct investment to promote economic growth. At the same time, the country has also increased the input of technology and R&D to...

Institutional pressures and technological adaptation have frequently been expressed as contrasting forces that explain organizational processes and actions. Institutional arguments suggest that environmental pressure, deriving from regulative, cognitive, and normative forces predict organizational action (or inaction), and impel organizations to favor legitimacy over efficiency. Theories addres...

Economic globalization promotes rapid development of scientific technology. The emergence of technological innovation makes that optimal allocation of human resources has been on the agenda gradually.Relying on technological innovation, enhancing the production efficiency of the enterprises constantly, implementing cost-effective or differentiation are the key of devepment.Human resources in th...

Using a large unique patent-strategic alliance dataset over the period 1990 to 2004, we first show that firms faced with greater technological competition are more likely to form alliances. Technological competition is captured by a cosine similarity measure between a firm’s own patent output and the patent output of all other firms in the economy. We further show that alliances lead to more pa...

Despite the wideness of the literature on technological innovation, the diffusion of the supply chain collaborative technology innovation has not still received much attention. This paper is an attempt to answer the question that how the supply chain collaborative technological innovations emerge and diffuse. An agent-based model of collaborative supply chain technological innovation including ...