Two very different articles in this issue deal with the same important subject: workflow redesign. It’s a topic that is at the same time important and often slighted, largely because workflow – the way we do what we do day after day – tends to become such a well-traveled route that we may forget that other ways may lead us to the same end more quickly and efficiently. When workflow issues do ...

introduction: iran's social security organization provides hospital services through direct treatment system (hospitals owned by the organization) and indirect treatment system (purchasing of hospital services and other health care services from other providers). the current research aims to assess technical performance and determine the relationship between activity size and efficiency level o...

This paper investigates cost and profit efficiency of German hospitals. More specifically, it deals with the question how hospital efficiency varies with ownership, patient structure, and other exogenous factors, which are neither inputs nor outputs of the production process. We conduct a Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) on a multifaceted administrative German dataset combined with the balanc...

The study analyzed the technical efficiency of female cassava farmers in Surulere Local Government Area Oyo State, Nigeria. specifically determined respondents, examined factors affecting and estimated profitability area. showed that majority were their active year, most literate, married, had 4 – 6 members, experienced they small scale farmers. also variable representing farm size, agrochemica...

A Cobb–Douglas stochastic production frontier was used to analyze the technical efficiency of wheat producers under row planting and broadcasting methods in Hadiya zone, southern Ethiopia. The estimated results model show that mean 83.4% 57.8% broadcasting, respectively. Approximately 646.882 kg/ha 1393.038 output were lost due inefficiency. This reveals existing practices there is a room incre...

In this paper, we measure the technical efficiency for local electricity distribution firms in Sweden, and particular how small micro-scale generation affects scores. Using a two-stage data envelopment analysis to model double bootstrap approach estimate determinants of inefficiencies, show that are heterogeneous terms inefficiency, but large share is not associated with more inefficient operat...

This paper investigates the spillover effect (backward, forward, and horizontal linkage) of foreign direct investment (FDI) firms on technical efficiency local firms. research extends literature by employing meta-frontier framework analysis which is superior to single stochastic because each industry has a different combination inputs (or dissimilar production technology). Using large data set ...

The technical and allocative efficiency of broadacre farmers in a southern region of Western Australia is investigated over a three-year period. Applying data envelopment analysis (DEA) and stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) reveals there is some inefficiency in each year, which decreases over time. The distributions of technical efficiency in each year are positively skewed toward higher effic...

Using cross-sectional survey data collected under the Cotton Sector Reform Project, of the Africa, Power, and Politics Programme during summer 2009 in Benin, Burkina Faso, and Mali, this research aims to: 1) expand the literature on cotton reforms and efficiency by discussing the main institutional changes that have occurred with the recent market-oriented reforms, 2) and quantitatively estimat...