Author: Kevin J. Fox
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: efficiency, productivity, studies, sector, public
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2001-11-27
List price: $195.00
ISBN-10: 0792375637
ISBN-13: 9780792375630

Regardless of where we live, the management of the public sector impacts on our lives. Hence, we all have an interest, one way or another, in the achievement of efficiency and productivity improvements in the activities of the public sector. For a government agency that provides a public service, striving for unreasonable benchmark targets for efficiency may lead to a deterioration of service quality, along with an increase in stress and job dissatisfaction for public sector employees. Slack performance targets may lead to gross inefficiency, poor quality of service, and low self-este

Authors:Rolf Färe, Shawna Grosskopf, Daniel Primont,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: efficiency, productivity, studies, measurement, aggregation
Number of Pages: 157
Published: 2007-03-26
List price: $109.00
ISBN-10: 0387369481
ISBN-13: 9780387369488

Economists have long studied the efficiency of firms, industries, and entire economies. This volume brings together leading scholars to make connections between efficiency and a number of diverse areas of current interest to economists, including an examination of the efficiency of tax systems across generations that overlap, and the efficiency of firm mergers that highlights the tradeoff between the synergy of the merger and the problem of managerial oversight in the now larger firm. An empirical look at productivity growth of states uses a tripartite decomposition of labor productivity into

Author: Kerry Gleeson
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: efficiency, resources, maximize, electronic, time, organizing, personal, program, tech
Number of Pages: 241
Published: 1997-10-24
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0471172065
ISBN-13: 9780471172062

"Maybe you think you know about time management. Unless you’ve read Kerry Gleeson’s High-Tech PEP, you don’t. This book contains a key. It unexpectedly opens up a whole world—where suddenly you can think clearly and accomplish things you never thought possible." —Duncan Maxwell Anderson Senior Editor, Success magazine "With simple, straightforward tips, [Gleeson] explains how to exploit technology as a personal information management tool.… This book offers concrete suggestions for getting our information lives in order. As Gleeson says, ‘Do it now!’" —Dr. Franklin Becker, Pr

Authors:Cinzia Daraio, Leopold Simar,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: efficiency, applications, studies, productivity, methodology, analysis, nonparametric, methods, advanced, robust
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2007-03-26
List price: $149.00
ISBN-10: 0387351558
ISBN-13: 9780387351551

Providing a systematic and comprehensive treatment of recent developments in efficiency analysis, this readable book makes available an intuitive yet rigorous presentation of advanced nonparametric and robust methods. This flexible toolbox can be used in theories based on the neoclassical theory of production and its alternatives, including evolutionary theories. The methods are complemented by empirical analysis of three different economic fields: scientific research, mutual funds industry and the insurance sector. The research demonstrates the utility of the toolbox for a wide range of econo

Authors:Rolf Färe, Shawna Grosskopf,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: productivity, efficiency, studies, directions, new
Number of Pages: 174
Published: 2003-11-30
List price: $105.00
ISBN-10: 1402076614
ISBN-13: 9781402076619

The key unifying theme in this book is "new directions". The work covers the new directions in which we are currently working in the general efficiency and productivity arena. The unifying conceptual tool is the directional distance function, which is new. We do keep our "traditional" general approach -namely we start with axiomatic production theory and exploit the duality to drive our "new" results. The directional distance function includes traditional distance functions and efficiency measures as special cases providing a unifying framework for existing productivity and efficienc

Authors:Rolf Färe, Shawna Grosskopf,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: productivity, efficiency, studies, directions, new
Number of Pages: 188
Published: 2005-05-04
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 038724963X
ISBN-13: 9780387249636

The key unifying conceptual tool of this important entry in the study of efficiency and productivity is the directional distance function. In New Directions the authors take up this new performance measure while also maintaining their "traditional" axiomatic production theoretic approach. The directional distance function includes traditional distance functions and efficiency measures as special cases providing a unifying framework for existing productivity and efficiency measures. As a generalisation of the traditional distance functions, it turns out to be a dual to the profit function, op

Authors:Gjalt Huppes, Gjalt Huppes;Masanobu Ishikawa,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: eco, efficiency, science, industry, quantified
Number of Pages: 340
Published: 2007-02-21
List price: $219.00
ISBN-10: 1402053983
ISBN-13: 9781402053986

Eco-efficiency has long been a concept: the intention of reducing environmental impact while increasing environmental value. Its origins are with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. However, in a globalized world with sustained economic growth environmental degradation is threatening. Macro level requirements on sustainability should be reflected in the eco-efficiency of choices at a micro level, like on technologies, supply chains and product systems. Eco-efficiency analysis has come to fruition as a fully quantified method for analysis, linking to specific domains of econ