21 Result(s)
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Overlooked effect of negative data on efficiency analysis
Financial data may contain nonpositive values, which can be addressed using logarithm transformation or the addition of constant. However, production scale is important when employing data envelopment analysis...
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Correction to: How do peace dividends bring about human development and productivity?
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The moderating effects of power distance on corporate social responsibility and multinational enterprises performance
This study examines (1) how corporate social responsibility (CSR) or the three pillars of sustainable investing, viz., the environmental (E), social (S), and governance (G) pillars, individually affect innovat...
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A chance-constrained network DEA approach based on enhanced Russell-based directional distance measure to evaluate public sector performance: a case study of OECD countries
Decision-making quality is a concern for the public sector because its decisions may involve more dimensions than those faced by the private sector. However, past studies on public sector efficiency have ignor...
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Impact of research and development tax credits on the innovation and operational efficiencies of Internet of things companies in Taiwan
Following the emergence of the Internet, the Internet of things (IOT) brought about another wave of technological and economic revolutions. Through the lens of the production process, this study utilises the d...
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Multiplicative efficiency aggregation to evaluate Taiwanese local auditing institutions performance
This study evaluates the management efficiency and quality effectiveness of Taiwanese local auditing institutions (LAIs), whereby two outputs leave the first stage without being inputted to the second stage un...
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An integrated multiple objective decision making approach for exploring the competitiveness of pharmaceutical multinational enterprises
This study integrated multiple objective decision-making approaches including data envelopment analysis (DEA), rough set theory and TOPSIS method for exploring the competitiveness of pharmaceutical multination...
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How do peace dividends bring about human development and productivity?
The main purpose of this study was to explore the impact of peace dividends on global changes in national productivity. First, this study assessed changes in productivity from 2005 to 2014 in various countries...
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Do female directors will have impact on corporate performance?
The purpose of this study is to explore the influence of female directors on the corporate performance of Chinese banks and Taiwanese financial holding companies. The sample consists of 14 Chinese banks and 15...
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Interlocking directorates and dynamic corporate performance: the roles of centrality, structural holes and number of connections in social networks
This study investigates how interlocking directorates affect dynamic corporate performance among 187 Taiwanese electronics companies during a 3 year sampling period (2013–2015). This study consists of two stag...
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Using Network DEA and Grey Prediction Model for Big Data Analysis: An Application in the Global Airline Efficiency
This study proposes a big data enabled analytics approach to extract the valuable information through network Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) integrated with multiplicative efficiency aggregation (MEA) and Gre...
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Integration and application of rough sets and data envelopment analysis for assessments of the investment trusts industry
Approximately 40% of pension funds for military officials, civil servants, and educators in Taiwan are entrusted to international and domestic management funds. However, the average return rate for domesticall...
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Impulse response function analysis of the impacts of hospital accreditations on hospital efficiency
Improving hospital efficiency is an emerging area of interest among policy makers in the new global economy’s healthcare system. To ensure accurate efficiency analyses, we consider the nonhomogeneous input/out...
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Does CSR matter? Influence of corporate social responsibility on corporate performance in the creative industry
The contribution from the creative industry to the regional economic growth has made the creative industry a new driver in economic development. But as a relatively young economic sector, the creative industry...
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The impacts of risk-management committee characteristics and prestige on efficiency
We examine the effects of risk-management committee characteristics and prestige on efficiency, as well as the moderating effect of risk-management committee prestige on the association between risk-management...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Offline Password Guessing Attacks on Smart-Card-Based Remote User Authentication Schemes
Password as an easy-to-remember credential plays an important role in remote user authentication schemes, while drawing from a space so small that an adversary may exhaustively search all possible candidate pa...
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Capital Stock and Performance of R&D Organizations: A Dynamic DEA-ANP Hybrid Approach
Assessing resource allocation in R&D organizations is an important issue that requires a comprehensive measure to characterize it. To provide a greater picture, we first construct a dynamic three-stage network...
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Research Fronts and Prevailing Applications in Data Envelopment Analysis
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 question of particular interest...
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A new perspective to explore the technology transfer efficiencies in US universities
Universities play a critical role in the complex technology transfer process that facilitates technology transformation from pure research activities to commercialization. The literature has recently focused o...
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Production and Marketing Efficiencies of the U.S. Airline Industry: A Two-Stage Network DEA Approach
This chapter presents an application of a two-stage network data envelopment analysis (DEA) for examining the performance of 30 U.S. airline companies. The airline industry is a subject of concern because the ...
