Research activities relating to data envelopment analysis (DEA) have grown at a fast rate
recently. Exactly what activities have been carrying the research momentum forward is a …

Research Methodology is meant to provide a broad guideline to facilitate and steer the
whole of a research activity in any discipline. With the ambit and amount of research …

In recent years there has been an exponential growth in the number of publications related
to theory and applications of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Charnes, Cooper, and …

Banker and Natarajan (2008) identified sufficient conditions in a stochastic framework to
justify the popular two-stage approach of Data Envelopment Analysis followed by Ordinary …

The measurement of corporate performance is central to strategic management research. A
common objective of this research is to identify top performers in an industry and their …

The main aim of the study was to estimate the target values of agrochemical use, and its
impact on crop productivity, and human health. Adoptions of protective measures and their …

Nonparametric regression subject to convexity or concavity constraints is increasingly
popular in economics, finance, operations research, machine learning, and statistics …

This study utilizes mediation analysis and bootstrap** to analyze the mediating effect of
capital structure on the association between managerial ability and firm performance. The …

Business sustainability has been defined as meeting current needs while providing the
ability of future generations to meet their own needs. However, few firms invest in practices …

Electricity distribution is a natural local monopoly. In many countries, the regulators of this
sector apply frontier methods such as data envelopment analysis (DEA) or stochastic frontier …