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...

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...

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...

BACKGROUND This study is an initial effort to examine the dynamics of efficiency and productivity in Greek public hospitals during the first phase of the crisis 2009-2012. Data were collected by the Ministry of Health after several quality controls ensuring comparability and validity of hospital inputs and outputs. Productivity is estimated using the Malmquist Indicator, decomposing the estimat...

In today's competitive world, many manufacturing and service firms, including banks, have been forced to use new managerial approaches, and methods for assessing organizational performance. The Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach is one of these approaches, which has been used to evaluate the performance of organizations since 1978. The purpose of this research is to use the technology sup...

in order to study the effective factors in sugar beet production, evaluation of technical, allocative and economical efficiency of sugar beet producers in bardsir city, 150 sugar beet producers were questioned by classified method. data were collected through questionnaire forms filled by producers in 2004-05. the stochastic frontier production and cost function method were used to analyze the ...

Eco-efficiency is oftentimes considered the gold standard for managerial decision making in an environmental context because it seemingly reconciles the efficient use of capital and the efficient use of environmental resources. We challenge this view by disaggregating eco-efficiency to provide an in-depth analysis of corporate eco-efficiency and to identify the drivers of an efficient use of en...