A Successful School Savings Bank

Merger-Related Cost Savings in the Production of Bank Services

This paper utilizes a new flow measure of the true output of bank services to analyze the impact of mergers on the cost and productivity of Bank Holding Companies (BHCs) over the period 1987–1999. It shows that there are conceptual problems in the output measures used in previous studies, which may be the reason for their paradoxical findings: Bank mergers are estimated to lead to significant i...

A Model of Successful School Leadership from the International Successful School Principalship Project

The International Successful School Principalship Project (ISSPP) has been actively conducting research about the work of successful principals since 2001. Findings from four project books and eight models derived from this project are synthesised into a model of successful school leadership. Building on Gurr, Drysdale and Mulford’s earlier model, the work of school leaders is described as enga...

Wipro’s Procurement Process Rationalization Services results in 14% average savings for a leading Commercial Bank

Designing a successful school management process model based on ISSPP international research findings

Introduction: The ISSPP project was launched in 2001 and continues to seek to understand the characteristics, attitudes and characteristics of successful school. The results of a case study in different countries show that successful educational managers have outstanding characteristics. The purpose of this study is to identify the characteristics of successful school principals based on resear...

Does Privatization of a Postal Savings Bank in Japan Have Economic Value?

Economic theory traditionally supports the viewpoint that government ownership is inefficient and that privatization invariably leads to efficiency improvements. However, there is often frequent opposition to privatization activity because it is difficult to examine and empirically validate the effects of privatization. This is the first study to examine the impact of the privatization of posta...