A production process includes several sub-processes, which may also be called working areas or disciplines that are responsible for performing the different tasks required to accomplish the mission of the process. It is crucial that the tasks performed in these sub-processes are synchronised with each other without unnecessary and uncontrollable gaps and overlapping, which in turn may lead to l...

Performance Data envelopment analysis Managerial efficiency Profitability efficiency A two-stage approach in data envelopment analysis (2S-DEA) methodology is used towards decomposing a typical two-stage operation process of general insurance companies, which is conducted in a single operation involving intermediate. Specifically, we evaluate the managerial efficiency and profitability efficien...

This paper compares the performance of regional banks and national banks in Korea for the period of 19922004 by examining how the profitability of these two groups differs, identifying major determinants of profitability for each group, and explaining their similarities and differences. Two competing hypotheses, the market power hypothesis and the efficient structure hypothesis, are tested in a...

This paper analyzes the effect of productivity on profitability at the firm level through the construction of an anticipatory framework/model, based on Gold’s model. It is a Total Productivity Measurement (TPM) model, which directly measures and relates productivity with long-term profitability (defined as the Shareholder Value AddedSVA) and uses dynamic productivity ratios and their effects on...

This paper proposes a continuous-time heterogeneous agent model of investor behaviour consisting of fundamentalist, contrarian, momentum and market maker strategies to study their impact on market stability and profitability. The underlying stochastic delay integro-differential equation model provides a unified approach to model different time horizons of momentum and contrarian strategies, whi...

Taxi trajectories reflect human mobility over the urban roads’ network. Although taxi drivers cruise the same city streets, there is an observed variation in their daily profit. To reveal the reasons behind this issue, this study introduces a novel approach for investigating and understanding the impact of human mobility patterns (taxi drivers’ behavior) on daily drivers’ profit. Firstly, a K-m...

Remanufacturing is a product recovery option that upgrades the quality of returns to “as-good-as-new” conditions. Remanufactured products cost less, and are sold with the same or better warranty as for new products. In this paper, we consider a duopoly environment with two manufacturers in direct competition selling their respective new products on the primary market. Specifically, we address t...

Customer value creation is allegedly at the centre of relationships between service recipients and service providers (such as financial service organisations in general, and commercial banks in particular). This research considers the role of customer value creation in the strategic response of banks to external changes in their growth opportunities. The analysis established that there had been...

in this paper we analyze the relationship between creditrisk & profitability in iranian banks. the credit risk is measured bynon-performing loans ratio &loan; loss provision ratio. also, theprofitability has been measured by return on assets &return; on equity.the survey data are from fifteen iranian banks& credit institutesduring the time period of 2003 to 2009.results show that there is asign...

Soil acidity reduces base cations required for plant growth and may result in phytotoxic concentrations of soluble aluminum. Liming acidic soils is generally promoted as an effective management practice to increase soil pH, cation concentrations, ameliorate toxicity caused by aluminum manganese. Through a global literature review using data published from field experiments on liming, the object...