the first goal of the current research is to investigate the relation between the management styles and the managerial efficiency. the second goal of the research is to rank managers according to their managerial styles in the executive agencies in mazandaran. consequently, the data were gathered using questionnaires. the sample size was 150. the collected data were further analyzed by spss and...

The paper explores the link between managerial performance and cost efficiency of 617 Japanese general local public hospitals in 1999-2007. Treating managerial performance as unobservable heterogeneity, the paper employs a panel data stochastic cost frontier model with latent classes. Financial parameters associated with better managerial performance are found to be positively significant in ex...

This article modifies the conventional two-stage DEA model to construct an analytical model for energy-related efficiency with undesirable outputs. Our proposed model relaxes the constraint that the inputs of the second process must come from the first process. As a result, our proposed model is more flexible than the original model in terms of the application of energy-related efficiency measu...

Technical efficiency of wheat farms in eastern England is measured through the estimation of a stochastic frontier production function using panel data for the 1993–1997 crop years. Variations in the technical efficiency index across production units are explained through a number of managerial and farm characteristic variables following Battese and Coelli (1995) [Empirical Econ. 20, 325–332] a...

This paper presents the concept of efficiency mapping for large synchronous hydrogenerators, which are useful evaluating hydropower generation performance vis-à-vis interconnected intermittent to machine efficiency-oriented design. Tests loss segregation at rated conditions needed, and models v...