In this paper, we focus on the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)-based model structures have been used in assessing bank branch efficiency. Probing the methodologies of 75 published studies at the branch level since 1985 to early 2015, we found that these models can be divided into four categories: standard basic DEA models, single level and multi-level models, enriched (hybrid) models and specia...

The multi-level perspective (MLP) is a prominent framework for transition research. However, few studies have used bibliometrics conducting global picture of the MLP This study identifies worldwide trends at three levels: sources, authors, and documents, uses bibliometrix based on 757 articles published in WOS Scopus from 2002 to 2020. results show that research literature proliferating, number...

Levidow, Les and Upham, Paul (2017). Linking the multi-level perspective with social representations theory: Gasifiers as a niche innovation reinforcing the energy-from-waste (EfW) regime. The multi-level perspective (MLP) theorises technological change as a process of niche innovations competing with incumbent socio-technical regimes. As a mid-range theoretical framework, the MLP invites compl...

Cities worldwide operate on the frontlines to support forced migrants. Some of these cities even overstep their formal prerogatives by refusing comply with, and at times overtly subverting, prescriptions national authorities. This article builds a conceptual framework understand such forms insurgent urban asylum policy-making. We argue that insurgency depends how city governments mediate constr...