Knowledge of Production technology and information communication technology covers many aspects of the knowledge process in firm. Digital Manufacturing is one of the core strategies of the European Manufacture vision and strategic agenda towards the knowledge based production. It is driven by the application and standardization of information and communication technologies and the increasing de...

In this paper we estimate a stochastic production frontier in a panel of manufacturing firms in Côte d’Ivoire. Our main interest is on the impact of the business environment on technical efficiency levels. Moreover the chosen modeling allows us to derive managerial efficiencies, and then define most efficient firms independently of business environment influences. A non-neutral modeling of the ...

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...

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 purpose of this study is measuring total factor productivity (tfp) growth of sugar beet for different provinces of iran and then decomposing it to the changes in technical change, managerial efficiency change and scale efficiency change. for this purpose we used the data envelopment analysis (dea) method and malmquist productivity index. results showed that average growth of total factor pr...

The focus of this study is to investigate the constraints and barriers in managerial efficiency of corporate sector in Pakistan, not only for the better results of the corporate but also for the whole economy. A comparison of Pakistani corporate sector is made with 32 low income countries. Corruption, crime, gender, finance, infrastructure, innovation of technology, are the major constraints fo...

The European Union is one of the blocks of countries in the world that is doing more in the fight against climate change and therefore it has opted to promote the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. In this paper we analyze Natural and Managerial efficiency of the 28 countries of EU from 2005 to 2013. For this purpose the Malmquist index (MI) has been used, considering crosses on the efficie...

In response to accounting scandals, market control systems (e.g. regulations related to internal control systems) have become more stringent in order to restore investors’ confidence in capital markets. Tightening control systems has triggered a fierce debate on its effect on both capital markets and the real economy. My dissertation studies how mitigating earnings management by tightening cont...