this paper studies the technical efficiency of 12 branches of saman bank over the period 1387-88, relating it to the composition of staff by sex, the ratio of fixed assets to total assets, the age of the branches and the geographic ranking in development indicators of the city where the branch is located in. data envelopment analysis is used to determine the efficiency of branches. the average ...

Increasing integration services can improve opportunistic development by presenting monolith applications as opportunities for mashups. O pportunities are available resources that yield desired results. Their suitability depends on who seizes the opportunity and the context for its use. Opportunistic development relies on the availability of reusable software components to produce hybrid applic...

We perform an experimental study of complexity to assess its effect on trading behavior, price volatility, liquidity, and trade efficiency. Subjects were asked to deduce the value of a particular asset from information they were given about the composition and price of several portfolios. Following that, subjects traded with each other anonymously in a well-defined, simple bargaining process. P...

In this examination of the management of organisational knowledge assets, a distinction is made between Information Management and Knowledge Management, presented as the management of the organisational environment within which intellectual assets are fostered and encouraged. This supportive environment calls for computer systems that connect employees and facilitate the retrieval and transfer ...

working with rural poverty, institutional analysis needs to be focused as closely as possible on poor rural people. To carry out an analysis of the institutions concerned with and affecting poverty and the poor, a first critical step is to identify who the poor are and differentiate as clearly as possible different groups within the overall category of “the poor”, as these distinct groups need ...

This paper examines how differences in the bargaining power of husband and wife affect the distribution of consumption expenditures in rural Bangladeshi households. Two alternative measures of assets are used: current assets and the value of assets brought to marriage. Results show that both assets at marriage and current assets are strongly determined by the human capital of husband and wife a...