...It led to the conclusion that ‘No one nation is best at everything’ ( Hall, 2018 ). Yet the influence of affluence provides a skewness that must be acknowledged. Retaining elements of the rankings as one surface-level dimension of institutional reality, and complementing it with other frameworks...

.... The study aims to rank the companies and determine which company is superior based on ESG criteria. The authors employed the Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) in this study. The companies are ranked with this standardized method comprehending which company...

... can relevantly explain the effects on the economic growth of Czechia. However, the chapter finds a connection with yet another economic category, which is competitiveness. The method of measuring and subsequent ranking of competitiveness is also of utmost importance. If the economy...

...Abstract The visualization of ranking information in global public policy is moving away from traditional “league table” formats and toward dashboards and interactive data displays. This paper explores the rhetoric underpinning the visualization of ranking information in such interactive formats...

...Abstract The thesis that rankings do more than just make visible an organization’s position viz-á-viz a competitor, but stimulate new competitive rivalries, has provoked much interest. Yet, to date, scholars lack an understanding of how such competitive rivalries unfold at the level...

... with multiple input factors and output factors. A numerical example is also provided. DEA technical efficiency ranking noncontrollable factor performance measurement benchmarking Introduction A nonparametric technique to estimate the technical efficiency and the efficiency of a set of homogeneous firms...

... model. From such an approach, researchers can benchmark organizations even if the number of DMUs is less than the number of input-output variables. Data envelopment analysis production function efficiency ranking benchmarking performance measurment Introduction Data envelopment analysis (DEA...

...Abstract This chapter analyzes the prediction power of the economic policy uncertainty (EPU) index on the yearly countries ranking from UEFA (Union des associations européennes de football). We used the Bayesian Graphical Structural Vector Autoregressive model as well as the Ordinary Least Squares...

...Rankings, in other words, express capitalism’s “will to progress” ( Fourcade, 2018 ) in the guise of benchmarking and performance measurement exercises in which “best practices” are defined and constantly re-set as moving targets. As a result, such initiatives rely heavily on company innovation...

... to forge a stronger coupling between reputations and meritocracy. Reputation ranking rating reputation work meritocracy organizations Introduction Communicating involves the ways in which reputations are transmitted both privately and publicly, such as word-of-mouth (recommendations, rumors...

... the reasons why it took France so long to fully recognize the value of PISA. PISA France student performance ranking education policy OECD Introduction Drawing on the results of a survey of 37 country practices that “investigates how, and the extent to which, national policy actors use PISA in policies...

... the firm’s profitability. But before developing these weights, the studies must first rank these products – which is a complex endeavor that is often driven by many hierarchical financial and nonfinancial goals and objectives. Ranking is also difficult due to using such complex concepts as time, uncertainty...