...Mohsin Taj; Nisar Ahmad Khan Purpose This study aims to assess the performance of leather tanneries in India by measuring their technical efficiency ( TE ) and identifying the impact of firm size and other factors that may be responsible for variations in efficiency. Design/methodology/approach...

...Bijoy Kumar Dey; Gurudas Das; Ujjwal Kanti Paul Purpose This paper aims to estimate the technical efficiency (TE) and its determinants in the handloom micro-enterprises of Assam (India) using the double-bootstrap data envelopment analysis (DEA) technique. Design/methodology/approach The study...

... analysis [SFA]) and then uses the output of SFA to find an association between embodied technology gap (TG) and technical efficiency. A methodological problem in earlier literature is the use of the productivity gap as a proxy for embodied TG. The present study uses technical parameters of papermaking...