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This study examines shipping efficiency and its influencing factors in 19 Chinese port cities using a four-stage bootstrap DEA approach. Infrastructure, asset investment, labor are selected as inputs; cargo throughput turnover the outputs. First, three-stage model, SFA regression method is used to eliminate impact of external environmental random on efficiency. Furthermore, Bootstrap applied co...

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Among the possible measures for Information Technology (IT) success is its impact on companies ́ performance. Many researches have been conducted to show the influence of IT on firms ́ results, but mainly through studies in large-sized firms. The objective of this work is to analyze the relationships between IT investments and organizational efficiency, focusing on micro, small and medium sized e...