... on the sources of technical inefficiency of health care foodservice operations for Australia and USA. A. Assaf can be contacted at: albert.assaf@vu.edu.au © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Process efficiency Stochastic modelling Food service Health services Australia United States...

.... Money Finance and accounting Transaction costs Economic growth Process efficiency An early version of the stochastic production frontier approach proposed by Aigner et al. (1977) and Meeusen and van den Broeck (1977) is used to estimate the rate and the direction of technical...

... Public administration Process efficiency However, a firm‐augmenting public input prevents a perfectly competitive market from attaining a Pareto‐optimal long‐run equilibrium (e.g. Richter, 1994). Though most authors try to solve this problem by fixing the number of firms in the long run (e.g...

..., it is logical to expect that firms that export a greater portion of their output are likely to be more productive than firms that export less. Process efficiency ISO 9000 series Manufacturing industries China The proliferation of international standards, in particular the ISO 9000, is one...

..., for example, in Wai‐kwong Mok (2002)). But comprehensive exploration of its performance in Ukraine under described conditions has not existed. Process efficiency Consumer goods Data analysis Ukraine The political changes named the Orange Revolution that occurred in Ukraine at the end of 2004...