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Aspects of Managerial Efficiency

The Journal of Industrial Economics, 1962
James Bates, A. J. M. Sykes
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Conventional Efficiency Concepts and their Managerial Limitations

1996
Conventional concepts of technical efficiency (productivity) and allocative efficiency are discussed in this chapter. The basic concepts of technical efficiencies, allocative efficiencies, and technical change are reviewed in detail. Three main approaches to productivity measurement are discussed: (a) The Index Approach; (b) The Programming Approach ...
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Managerial Efficiency: A Study of Management Buyouts*

Contemporary Accounting Research, 1993
Abstract. Aggregate measures of firm performance such as market value and net income are less informative about the operating performance of a firm because they incorporate many other factors in addition to the direct outcomes of operating decisions. This study develops and uses a more direct measure of operating performance that is based on the total
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Mergers, managerial incentives, and efficiencies [PDF]

, 2014
We analyze the effects of synergies from horizontal mergers in a Cournot oligopoly where principals provide their agents with incentives to cut marginal costs prior to choosing output. We stress that synergies come at a cost which possibly leads to a countervailing incentive effect: The merged firm's principal may be induced to stifle managerial ...
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Managerial Opportunism and Corporate Investment Efficiency

Journal of Financial Research
Abstract Our study investigates how managerial opportunism, measured by executives' insider trading, affects corporate investment efficiency and performance. We find that such opportunism undermines investment efficiency, with distortions in financial reporting quality serving as a channel of influence.
David Javakhadze, Anita Pennathur, Brian Silverstein   +2 more
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Socially Efficient Managerial Dishonesty

2005
As a reaction to the corporate scandals of the early 2000s, the US Administration dramatically tightened sanctions against managers who disclose misleading financial information. This paper argues that such a reform might come with some unpleasant macroeconomic effects.
Besancenot, Damien, Vranceanu, Radu
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The impact of managerial attributes on cash holding and investment efficiency and the mediator role of cash holding

Journal of Islamic Accounting and Business Research, 2023
Arash Arianpoor
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The Managerial Choice: To Be Efficient and to Be Human

The Academy of Management Review, 1977
N. Fredric Crandall, Frederick Herzberg
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Social ties, managerial overconfidence, and investment efficiency

Finance Research Letters, 2022
Yong Joo Kang, Ho-Young Lee
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Technical and managerial efficiency assessment of European banks using a conditional nonparametric approach

International Transactions in Operational Research, 2021
Faten Ben Bouheni, Jean-Joseph Minviel
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