Research findings showing the ubiquity of Pareto and ‘power-law’ distributions in the social and organisational worlds underlie increasing calls for complexity-driven ideas to be applied more frequently to organisational and management research. Power laws indicate well-formed Pareto distributions. Given that the world of business is, then, quite likely Paretian rather than Gaussian, phenomena ...

conclusions reduction of surplus production factors through comprehensive planning based on the results of the data envelopment analysis can play a major role in cost reduction of hospitals and health sectors. in hospitals with a technical efficiency score of less than one, the original and projected values of inputs were different; resulting in a surplus. hence, these hospitals should reduce t...

Case-based planners often face the problem of incurring more computational cost for retrieving and modifying a case for reuse, than what can be saved by reusing the case. We present a case-based planning system that learns the performance of a given planner (called the default planner) in a training phase, and exploits this knowledge to retrieve and reuse cases such that planning effort is save...

A total of 1474 and 1935 production and reproduction records of crossbred cattle and Murrah buffaloes from the year 1992 to 2012 were utilized in the present study to investigate breeding efficiency (BE) and various performance traits. Breeding efficiency was calculated using Wilcox and Tomar methods and Least –squares of Harvey model was used to study the effects of various non-genetic factors...

This study examines the cost and profit efficiency of banking sectors in twelve transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) over the period 1993-2000, using the stochastic frontier approach (SFA) and the distribution free approach (DFA). The managerial inefficiencies in CEE banking markets were found to be significant, with average cost efficiency level for 12 countries of 72 and 7...