organizations, in both public and private sectors, are designed to meet different goals and objectives. undoubtedly, productivity is one of the most significant objectives toward which administrators should plan and set goals. because an unproductive organization is unable to function properly and survive in the long term. reviewing literature on productivity concept reveals that there are diff...

The purpose of this first section is to present a framework for the measurement of aggregate economic growth in a single country over a given period of time. Sources of growth in output for the economy as a whole can be broken down into the rate of aggregate technical change and the contributions of aggregate capital and labour inputs. In this chapter we construct measures of growth in output, ...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to measure the hospital productivity using data envelopment analysis (DEA) technique and Malmquist indices. METHODS This is a cross sectional study in which the panel data were used in a 4 year period from 2007 to 2010. The research was implemented in 12 teaching and non-teaching hospitals of Ahvaz County. Data envelopment analysis technique and the Malmquist indic...

Nondiscretionary environmental inputs are critical in explaining relative efficiency differences and productivity changes in public sector applications. For example, the literature on education production shows that school districts perform better when student poverty is lower. In this paper, we extend the nonparametric approach to decompose Malmquist productivity index suggested by Färe et al....

This study examines the productivity growth of the nationwide banks of China and a sample of city commercial, banks for the eleven years to 2007. Estimates of total factor productivity growth are constructed with appropriate confidence intervals, using a bootstrap method for the Malmquist index. The study adjusts for the quality of the output by accounting for the non-performing loans on the ba...

The paper presents the AHP model for productivity comparison of Central European countries accessing the European Union. The model consists of two basic parts. The first one estimates the importance of branches within the countries and the second one evaluates the performance of the firms within branches. Finally, the results of both the parts are synthesized and the productivity of the country...

BACKGROUND The ability to measure productivity, work performed, or contributions toward the clinical mission has become an important issue facing anesthesiology departments in private practice and academic settings. Unfortunately, the practice and billing of anesthesia services makes it difficult to quantify individual productivity. This study examines the following methods of measuring individ...

This paper deals with the measurement of e¢ciency di¤erences among countries within a federation. The key tool is the use of a suitable interpretation of the non-substitution theorem in order to get a natural technological standard. Two alternative indices are proposed. One provides a structural productivity measure, independent of consumption and prices. The other consists of a price index ass...

This paper explores the use of the optimisation procedures in SAS/OR software with application to the measurement of e#ciency and productivity of decision-making units (DMUs) using data envelopment analysis (DEA) techniques. DEA was originally introduced by Charnes et al. [J. Oper. Res. 2 (1978) 429] is a linear programming method for assessing the e#ciency and productivity of DMUs. Over the la...