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Assessing airport efficiency in the Sakha Republic: A DEA-SBM analysis
Asian Journal of Shipping and LogisticsIn the Sakha Republic, aviation serves as the sole mode of year-round transportation, which is crucial for overcoming logistical challenges in remote areas of the region.
Young-Seo Choi +3 more
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Analysis of the Productivity Dynamics of Electricity Distribution Regions in Ghana
Energies, 2022 Electrical power distribution is the most important division in the power supply chain. However, its sustainability in terms of efficiency is very important for the growth of every country.
Clement Tengey +3 more
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Efficiency of Life Insurance Companies: An Empirical Study in Mainland China and Taiwan
SAGE Open, 2020 The study employs metafrontier and four-stage data envelopment analysis (DEA) to measure the overall and individual efficiency of life insurance companies in mainland China and Taiwan, after applying the slack-based measure (SBM)-DEA model to adjust the ...
Hwai-Shuh Shieh, Jin-Li Hu, Yong-Ze Ang
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Green manufacturing and environmental productivity growth [PDF]
, 2018 Purpose: Due to stringent regulations on carbon emissions, green manufacturing has become a critical issue in manufacturers’ strategic planning. Manufacturers are greening production through carbon abatement activities. This study aims to investigate the
Li, Yan, Zhang, Min
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Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT China's diversified agricultural policies have effectively improved both the yield and environmental performance of the crop sector. Quantifying productivity trends and their drivers is key to formulating strategies for high‐quality and low‐carbon crop development.
Yang Liu +2 more
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The relative efficiency of investment management of life insurers and takaful operators [PDF]
, 2015 The objective of this study is to analyze the efficiency and determinants of investment management among life insurers and takaful operators and, thus be able to describe their investment efficiency and provide information to firms about the things that ...
Ismail, Noriszura +3 more
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Environmental Efficiency Assessment of Dublin Port Using Two-Stage Non-Radial DEA Model [PDF]
, 2023 Global maritime trade has reached 11 billion tons and accounts for more than 80% of global merchandise trade (United Nations Conference on Trade & Development (UNCTAD), 2019).
Djordjević, Boban +2 more
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Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Quantifying and improving the environmental performance (EP) of agriculture has become an urgent research and policy priority. Over the past three decades, frontier‐based analytical frameworks have been widely applied to evaluate farm‐level EP.
Fissha Asmare +5 more
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A Regional Efficiency Assessment of Long-Term Care Services in Taiwan
SystemsTaiwan is currently an aging society and will be a super-aging society in the near future. The purpose of this research is to use two models of data envelopment analysis (DEA)—the slacks-based measurement (SBM) model and the dynamic slacks-based ...
Ming-Chung Chang +2 more
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Two-stage DEA method in identifying the exogenous factors of insurers’ risk and investment management efficiency [PDF]
, 2014 The objective of this study was to identify the exogenous variables of risk and investment management efficiency by using a two-stage data envelopment analysis (DEA) method.
Alias Radam, +3 more
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