Countries are forced to develop bio-based economic strategies promote efficient use of renewable natural resources. The transition towards a sustainable forest economy is associated with resource efficiency optimization, adoption innovative approaches in terms technological improvements and cost effectiveness, an opportunity reach multiple societal challenges. This paper focused on comparative ...

this paper presents a data envelopment analysis (dea) model combined with bootstrapping to assess performance of one of the data mining algorithms. we applied a two-step process for performance productivity analysis of insurance branches within a case study. first, using a dea model, the study analyzes the productivity of eighteen decision-making units (dmus). using a malmquist index, dea deter...

abstract in the past few years, diversification has turned into a highly controversial issue amongst numerous managers in almost each and every business. it is contended by many that diversification is vitally important and highly effective especially when it comes to evaluating the financial performance. there are several studies about the relationship between diversification and financial per...

Recognizing the critical role of agricultural sector in the overall growth as well as development performance, this study estimates total factor productivity (TFP) in Indian agriculture at state-level. Using Index of Agricultural Production as the measure of output, changes in TFP are estimated using non-parametric Sequential Malmquist TFP index. The TFP change is decomposed into efficiency cha...

Based on a sample of about 600 state enterprises from 1980 to 1994, this paper investigates the productivity performance of SOEs using Data Envelopment Analysis and a Malmquist index. Our empirical results show that the average technical efficiency was low for these firms. Considerable productivity growth was found, but it was accomplished mainly through technical progress rather than through e...

Productivity has an important and effective role in the growth of production increasing competitiveness countries. In this study, using Malmquist productivity index, total trend factors three sectors Iranian economy (agriculture, industry services) during years 2012-2017 have been discussed. The results showed that study period changes all economic except industrial sector are due to technologi...

The Trade Offs approach is an advanced tool for the improvement of the discrimination of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) models, Meta Malmquist Index was defined by Maria Portella and et. al (2008). In this paper we compute the Meta Malmquist Index in Trade Offs model in DEA and we compare, obtaining results, of Meta Malmquist Index in different models of DEA, Variable Return to Scale (VRS), Co...

although economic and managerial literature is replete with studies that probe about productivity but only a few studies decompose it to its components (technological changes, managerial efficiency changes and scale efficiency changes)and analysis their share in productivity changes (positively or negatively). accordingly, this article attempts to explain the issue by decompose productivity to ...

The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of information technology (IT) on the productivity and efficiency of manufacturing industries in Iran. So, the data will be collected from 23 Iranian manufacturing industries during “2002–2006” and the methods such as DEA and panel data used to study the subject. Results obtained by the above two methods represent that IT has a positive and statisti...