Environmental-, social-, and governance-related factors for business investment and sustainability: A scientometric review of global trends

H Ahmad, M Yaqub, SH Lee - Environment, Development and …, 2024 - Springer
Consideration of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors can contribute to the
environmental and economic performance of organizations in terms of investment and …

Local governments' efficiency: a systematic literature review—part I

I Narbón‐Perpiñá, K De Witte - International Transactions in …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The efficient management of the available resources in local governments has been a topic
of high interest in the field of public sector. We provide an extensive and comprehensive …

Does corporate social responsibility impact firms' innovation capacity? The indirect link between environmental & social governance implementation and innovation …

DC Broadstock, R Matousek, M Meyer… - Journal of Business …, 2020 - Elsevier
Firms' choices on corporate social responsibility (CSR) and environmental, social and
governance (ESG) implementation strategies can arguably have a positive impact on their …

Local governments' efficiency: a systematic literature review—part II

I Narbón‐Perpiñá, K De Witte - International Transactions in …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The efficient management of the available resources in local governments has been a topic
of high interest in the field of public sector. We provide an extensive and comprehensive …

[HTML][HTML] Gradient tree boosting and the estimation of production frontiers

MD Guillen, J Aparicio, M Esteve - Expert Systems with Applications, 2023 - Elsevier
In production theory and engineering, a topic of interest is the determination of technical
efficiency of firms from the estimation of a technology. By definition, a technology must satisfy …

Statistical approaches for non‐parametric frontier models: a guided tour

L Simar, PW Wilson - International Statistical Review, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
A rich theory of production and analysis of productive efficiency has developed since the
pioneering work by Tjalling C. Koopmans and Gerard Debreu. Michael J. Farrell published …

The spillover effects of foreign direct investment on the firms' productivity performances

DW Sari, NA Khalifah, S Suyanto - Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2016 - Springer
The study aims to examine foreign direct investment spillover effects on the firms'
productivity performances and to examine the most important component of total factor …

Data envelopment analysis, truncated regression and double-bootstrap for panel data with application to Chinese banking

K Du, AC Worthington, V Zelenyuk - European Journal of Operational …, 2018 - Elsevier
We investigate the impact of earning asset diversification on Chinese bank efficiency from
2006 to 2011. We do this by adapting the current two-stage data envelopment analysis …

Directional distances and their robust versions: Computational and testing issues

C Daraio, L Simar - European Journal of Operational Research, 2014 - Elsevier
Directional distance functions provide very flexible tools for investigating the performance of
Decision Making Units (DMUs). Their flexibility relies on their ability to handle undesirable …

Entrepreneurship and advancing national level economic efficiency

K Du, A O'Connor - Small Business Economics, 2018 - Springer
We explore the channels under which entrepreneurship fosters productivity by disentangling
its impact on national level economic efficiency and find that more entrepreneurship in …