Search Results - "Banker, R D"

Productivity and technical changes in the Indian pharmaceutical industry by Saranga, H, Banker, R D

“…We study the productivity change and factors driving this change in the Indian pharmaceutical industry during 1994-2003, in the backdrop of economic…”
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Sensitivity and stability in stochastic data envelopment analysis by Banker, R D, Kotarac, K, Neralić, L

“…Sensitivity and stability for Banker's model of Stochastic Data Envelopment Analysis (SDEA) is studied in this paper. In the case of the DEA model, necessary…”
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Some Models for Estimating Technical and Scale Inefficiencies in Data Envelopment Analysis by Banker, R. D, Charnes, A, Cooper, W. W

“…In management contexts, mathematical programming is usually used to evaluate a collection of possible alternative courses of action en route to selecting one…”
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A note on returns to scale in DEA by Banker, R.D., Bardhan, I., Cooper, W.W.

“…This brief note adds computational convenience and efficiency to the article by Banker and Thrall on returns to scale in DEA by modifying one of their…”
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A FRAMEWORK FOR ANALYZING CHANGES IN STRATEGIC PERFORMANCE by BANKER, RAJIV D., CHANG, HSI-HUI, MAJUMDAR, SUMIT K.

“…In this paper we present a framework for analyzing changes in strategic performance. Traditional measures for comparing the strategic performance across firms…”
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Quality and Competition by Banker, Rajiv D, Khosla, Inder, Sinha, Kingshuk K

“…In recent years, the practitioner literature in operations management has seen a dramatic surge in articles on quality management. It reflects the increased…”
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Maximum Likelihood, Consistency and Data Envelopment Analysis: A Statistical Foundation by Banker, Rajiv D

“…This paper provides a formal statistical basis for the efficiency evaluation techniques of data envelopment analysis (DEA). DEA estimators of the best practice…”
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“Small sample properties of ML, COLS and DEA estimators of frontier models in the presence of heteroscedasticity” by A.N. Bojanic, S.B. Caudill and J.M. Ford, European Journal of Operational Research 108, 1998, 140–148: A comment by Banker, R.D., Chang, H.S., Cooper, W.W.

“…This paper comments on the paper by Bojanic et al. (1998) in this Journal…”
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The public accounting industry production function by Banker, Rajiv D., Chang, Hsihui, Cunningham, Reba

“…A translog function is specified to represent the relation between revenue and human resource inputs in public accounting firms. Estimation of the model using…”
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Software Development Practices, Software Complexity, and Software Maintenance Performance: A Field Study by Banker, Rajiv D, Davis, Gordon B, Slaughter, Sandra A

“…Software maintenance claims a large proportion of organizational resources. It is thought that many maintenance problems derive from inadequate software design…”
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An empirical analysis of continuing improvements following the implementation of a performance-based compensation plan by Banker, Rajiv D., Lee, Seok-Young, Potter, Gordon, Srinivasan, Dhinu

“…Performance improvements subsequent to the implementation of a pay-for-performance plan can result because more productive employees self-select into the firm…”
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Automating output size and reuse metrics in a repository-based computer-aided software engineering (CASE) environment by Banker, R.D., Kauffman, R.J., Wright, C., Zweig, D.

“…Measurement of software development productivity is needed in order to control software costs, but it is discouragingly labor-intensive and expensive…”
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Profitability, Productivity and Price Recovery Patterns in the U.S. Telecommunications Industry by BANKER, R. D., CHANG, H.-H., MAJUMDAR, S. K.

“…We undertake a study where we examine changes in the profitability, productivity and price recovery of firms in the U.S. telecommunications industry over a…”
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Measuring Gains in Operational Efficiency from Information Technology: A Study of the Positran Deployment at Hardee's Inc. by Banker, Rajiv D., Kauffman, Robert J., Morey, Richard C.

“…This paper presents a new approach to measuring the input productivity gains from information technology (it) in complex managerial environments. The approach…”
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Differential impact of Korean banking system reforms on bank productivity by Banker, Rajiv D., Chang, Hsihui, Lee, Seok-Young

“…We study the impact of banking system reforms during a crisis following a period of undisciplined lending. Regulatory changes aimed at strengthening the banks’…”
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A Bi-Extremal Principle for Frontier Estimation and Efficiency Evaluations by Banker, R. D, Charnes, A, Cooper, W. W, Schinnar, A. P

“…A new approach is supplied for locating efficiency frontiers and evaluating the efficiency of Decision Making Units (DMU's). This is accomplished from…”
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Performance impact of research policy at the Chinese Academy of Sciences by Zhang, Daqun, Banker, Rajiv D., Li, Xiaoxuan, Liu, Wenbin

“…► We examine productivity change at the institutes of Chinese Academy of Sciences. ► Significant changes in organizational and resource management practices…”
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The Use of Categorical Variables in Data Envelopment Analysis by Banker, Rajiv D, Morey, Richard C

“…Data Envelopment Analysis has now been extensively applied in a range of empirical settings to identify relative inefficiencies, and provide targets for…”
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Scale Economies in New Software Development by Banker, R.D., Kemerer, C.F.

“…Two opposing views regarding the presence of economies or diseconomies of scale in new software development are reconciled in an approach that hypothesizes a…”
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Nonparametric Analysis of Technical and Allocative Efficiencies in Production by Banker, Rajiv D., Maindiratta, Ajay

“…In this paper we extend Varian's (1984) nonparametric production analysis to situations when the set of observed output, input, and price data is not…”
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