New Directions: Efficiency and Productivity - Couverture rigide

Färe, Rolf; Grosskopf, Shawna

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1402076614 ISBN 13 : 9781402076619

Editeur : Springer-Verlag New York Inc., 2003

Synopsis

The format of this monograph is three essays, which we arrived at after spending a year writing over one hundred pages of what we even- tually realized was a tedious reworking of old material. So we started over determined to write something new. At first we thought this approach might not work as a coherent mono- graph, which is why we chose the essay format rather than chapters. As it turns out, there is a common thread-namely the directional distance function, which also gave us our title. As you shall see, the directional distance function includes traditional distance functions and efficiency measures as special cases providing a unifying framework for existing productivity and efficiency measures. It is also flexible enough to open up new areas in productivity and efficiency analysis such as environmen- tal and aggregation issues. That we did not see this earlier is humbling; a student at a recent conference raised his hand and asked 'Why didn't you start with the directional distance function in the first place? In- deed. This manuscript is intended to make up for our earlier oversights. This monograph contains papers coauthored with Wen-Fu Lee and Osman Zaim and one paper written by two former students, Hiroyuki Fukuyama and Bill Weber. We thank them for their contributions. An- other former student, Jim Logan (Logi) read and critiqued the manu- script for which we are grateful.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
• Date d'édition: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1402076614
• ISBN 13: 9781402076619
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 174
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible