the objective of the present study was to identify managerial competencies. this study reviewed existing managerial competencies in a cultural context resulting in the development of a broad based psychometrically sound leadership questionnaire. the unit of analysis of the research was a theoretical and experimental research related to managerial competencies, provided from seventeen iranian an...

in very recent papers asmild et al. (2003) and halved et al. (2004) based upon potential improvement efficiency index (bogetoft and hougaard,1999) have suggested an alternative nonparametric frontier approach namely multi-directional inefficiency analysis (mea) to estimate the performance efficiency. mea has many advantages over data envelopment analysis (dea) as the standard nonparametric fron...

In recent years we have witnessed a great increase in the interest in Trust Management (TM) techniques both from the industrial and the academic sectors. The booming research has also determined a duality in the very definition of TM system which can lead to confusion. In one of the two categories of TM systems a great deal of work has yet to be done in advancing the inherently adaptive nature ...

Risk Management in Chinese banks has traditionally been the Cinderella of its internal functions. Political stricture and developmental imperative have often overridden standard practice of risk management resulting in large non-performing loan (NPL) ratios. One of the stated aims of opening up the Chinese banks to foreign strategic investment is the development of risk management functions. In...

In India, in the recent decades there has been emergence of modernised form edible oil industry and suitable marketing strategies have designed with an eye to earn enormous foreign exchange. However current levels productivity quality oils by-products are not adequate for meeting national requirement do match international standards. Among several reasons this state affairs industry, one most s...

Researchers and policymakers are concerned about the substantial increasing yield gap between sub-Saharan Africa rest of world. High-yielding improved varieties widely perceived as a means to close this gap. This study combines impact evaluation production analysis techniques, which mitigate estimation biases stemming from observed unobserved heterogeneity, estimate effects on maize productivit...