Keyword: measurement

Found 937 papers in total
Transport infrastructure and regional economic growth: evidence from China
2011,
This article develops a multi‐dimensions measurement of transport...
Technology‐based total factor productivity and benchmarking: New proposals and an application
2011,
The present study fills a gap between the benchmarking literature and...
Facilitated modelling in strategy development: measuring the impact on communication, consensus and commitment
2011,
Facilitated modelling is used in supporting the resolution of strategic issues mainly...
Applications and extensions of cost curves to marine container inspection
2011,
Drummond and Holte introduced the theory of cost curves, a graphical technique for...
Operational and environmental performance measures in a multi‐product closed‐loop supply chain
2011,
This paper investigates a number of operational and environmental performance...
Estimating ratio scale values when units are unspecified
2010,
Multiplication of a ratio scale by a positive constant (a similarity transformation)...
Semiparametric deconvolution with unknown error variance
2011,
Deconvolution is a useful statistical technique for recovering an unknown density in...
Quantifying the Impact of Layout on Productivity: An Analysis from Robotic‐Cell Manufacturing
2011,
Although the impact of layout on the productivity of manufacturing systems is well...
The importance of being early
2011,
This research quantifies the relationship between the cost of earliness and lateness...
Influence of aggregation and measurement scale on ranking a compromise alternative in AHP
2011,
Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is one of the most popular multi‐attribute...
Ranking Intervals and Dominance Relations for Ratio‐Based Efficiency Analysis
2011,
We develop comparative results for ratio‐based efficiency analysis (REA) based...
Young worker safety behaviors: Development and validation of measures
2011,
We conducted four studies to develop and validate measures of workplace...
Kusuoka representation of higher order dual risk measures
2010,
We derive representations of higher order dual measures of risk in ℒ p spaces as...
Making inefficient market indices efficient
2011,
This paper uses the concept of Marginal Conditional Stochastic Dominance and a...
Measuring Multidimensional Aspiration Gaps: A Means to Understanding Cultural Aspects of Poverty
2010,
This article links primary research into the way subjective well-being among poor...
Evaluation of an existing bus network using a transit network optimisation model: a case study of the Hiroshima City Bus network
2010,
This study evaluates an existing bus network from the perspectives of passengers,...
A decision-making strategy to maximize the information value of weather forecasts in a customer relationship management (CRM) problem of the leisure industry
2010,
This paper presents a method for the estimation and analysis of the economic value of...
Estimating effectiveness of the outdoor advertising with the use of transport model
2010,
A new method of estimating effectiveness of allocation of the outdoor advertising was...
With whom do you trade? Defensive innovation and the skill-bias
2010,
We examine whether increased trade with countries with ineffective protection of...
Stochastic Root Finding and Efficient Estimation of Convex Risk Measures
2010,
Reliable risk measurement is a key problem for financial institutions and regulatory...
Pricing, Frills, and Customer Ratings
2010,
This paper explores whether and how a firm should adapt its strategy in view of...
Explaining the efficiency of local health departments in the U.S.: an exploratory analysis
2010,
No study to date has analyzed the efficiency at which local health departments (LHDs)...
Future utility as a key dimension in e-learning quality
2010,
We propose future utility as an important dimension in the appraisal of the quality of...
Analysis of complementary methodologies for the estimation of school value added
2010,
This paper analyses the value added (VA) of a sample of Portuguese schools using two...
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