...Ujjwal Kanti Paul Purpose This study aims to examine the technical efficiency of the chemical-free farming system in India using a hybrid combination of data envelopment analysis (DEA) and machine learning (ML) approaches. Design/methodology/approach The study used a two-stage approach...

..., 29.3% of the hospitals in the study were technically efficient, whereas 70.7% were technically inefficient. In a constant returns of scale (CRS) productivity measurement of university hospitals performed by Özgen et al. (2008) using DEA, 21 of the 42 (50%) training and research hospitals...

... return to scale (VRS)) are assumed. This study focuses on input-oriented technical efficiency as leather firms have more flexibility in input utilisation over output production. The firms' production of leather output is dependent on the demand from buyers in the domestic and export market, while...

... variables affecting their efficiency. In addition, a sensitivity analysis is carried out for model validations. Findings Out of 33 hospitals, 17 were found inefficient due to the decline in their technical efficiency. Moreover, the total value of the software programs and operational expenses...

...Khar Mang Tan; Fakarudin Kamarudin; Amin Noordin Bany-Ariffin; Norhuda Abdul Rahim Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the firm efficiency or technical efficiency (TE), pure technical efficiency (PTE) and scale efficiency (SE) in the selected developed and developing Asia-Pacific...

... rights only Muhammad Hanif Akhtar can be contacted at: haneefakhtar@gmail.com 27 01 2017 18 03 2017 01 04 2017 Data envelopment analysis Saudi Arabia Technical efficiency Super efficiency Takaful firms The Saudi insurance market stands as one of the largest...

... in Table I . Table I Efficiency results on PTE, TE, and SE of petrochemical firms in KSA Firm Firm name Pure technical efficiency (PTE) Technical efficiency (TE) Scale efficiency (SE)=(TE/PTE) Returns-to-scale (CRS/IRS/DRS)  1 Advanced Petrochem. Co. 1.000 0.449 0.449 IRS...

...Varun Mahajan; D.K. Nauriyal; S.P. Singh Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to measure technical efficiencies, slacks and input/output targets for 50 large Indian pharmaceutical firms. Design/methodology/approach – The data are collected from Prowess of Centre for Monitoring of Indian...