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Accountability and Performance Measurement: A Stakeholder Perspective
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2012)Accountability and management accounting have strong links, especially around performance reporting. Many approaches, such as the balanced scorecard and Ramanathan’s (1985) accountability framework, stem from management ... -
Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Optimization of the Net Present Value and Internal Rate of Return of a Wind Farm Project under Wake Effect
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2015)According to studies on the impossible trinity, under conditions of high financial integration, the domestic interest rate is closely linked to the foreign one if the possibility of maneuvering interest rates is absent in ... -
Airlines Performance via Two-Stage Network DEA Approach
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2011)The performance of the airline industry has been widely studied using data envelopment analysis (DEA). Many existing DEA-based airline performance studies have used the standard DEA model, with some minor modifications. ... -
An Analytical Approach to Predict the Performance of Thoracic Transplantations
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2012)Predicting the performance of planned organ transplantation has proved to be a critical problem to solve. The purpose of this study is to present a data mining-based model for variable filtering and selection in order to ... -
An Application of GARCH Models in Detecting Systematic Bias in Options Pricing and Determining Arbitrage in Options
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2012)Derivatives have become widely accepted as tools for hedging and risk-management, as well as speculation to some extent. A more recent trend has been gaining ground, namely, arbitrage in derivatives. -
Applying an Efficiency Measure of Desirable and Undesirable Outputs in DEA to U.S. Electric Utilities
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2011)The measure proposed in this paper is a new nonparametric data envelopment analysis (DEA) scheme, the hybrid measure, for determining efficiency in the presence of radial and nonradial inputs or outputs. Further extension ... -
Assessing Knowledge Assets in Technology-Intensive Firms: Proposing a Model of Intellectual Capital
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2012)Knowledge assets are key organizational factors responsible for gaining a sustained competitive advantage in the new knowledge economy characterized by high degrees of environmental turbulence, complexity, and dynamism. ... -
Assessing Rural Community Empowerment: What it takes to Think Innovatively A Doctoral Research Proposal
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2008)Rural communities’ capacity to absorb policy intervention towards sustained development could be improved if individuals thought innovatively as a result of increased empowerment and strengthened community organization ... -
Assessing Theory and Practice in Competitive Strategy: Challenges and Future Directions
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2008)Competitive strategy scholars seek to answer three important questions: (a) what constitutes an effective strategy and how is it crafted, (b) how are strategies implemented in an organization, and (c) how can a strategy’s ... -
An Assessment of the Potential Capability of Banks in the United Kingdom Banks to Exploit Sociodemographic Change
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2009)The purpose of the paper is to examine whether UK banks recognize that population ageing and the increasing wealth the over-50 age group, relative to younger people in the 18-49 year age group, mean the older consumer ... -
The Asymmetric Effects of Monetary Policy in General Equilibrium
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2008)The study involved extending a dynamic general equilibrium neoKeynesian model by considering preferences that exhibit intertemporal nonhomotheticity. Introducing this feature generates a state-dependent intertemporal ... -
Avoiding Large Differences in Weights in Cross-Efficiency Evaluations: Application to the Ranking of Basketball Players
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2011)Because of data envelopment analysis (DEA) flexibility in the choice of weights, assessment of decision-making units (DMUs) often involves weighting only a few inputs and outputs and ignoring the remaining variables by ... -
Behavioral Anatomy of the Financial Crisis
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2010)In view of the challenges facing the neoclassical paradigm of economy, behavioral finance which offers an alternative way of looking at the processes taking place in capital markets is growing in importance. By referring ... -
Benchmarking Malaysia in the Global Information Society: Regressing or Progressing?
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2010)The purpose of this paper is to elucidate how the Dalenius-Hodges stratification methodology typically used in sampling, when combined with ranking and index standardization procedures, becomes a powerful policy tool for ... -
Benchmarking Peruvian Banks using Data Envelopment Analysis
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2011)Despite the growing literature on bank efficiency worldwide over the last decade, researchers have neglected the Peruvian banking sector. In this paper, the technique of data envelopment analysis (DEA) is used to investigate ... -
Big Data Analytics Based on Logistical Models
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2015)Over the past years, a change of feedback data in terms of quantity, quality, and timeliness could be observed in production. The generation of high resolution production feedback data enables producing companies to apply ... -
Case-Study of Internationalization in Peruvian SMEs
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2011)The aim of the study is to better understand and assess the strategic effectiveness of three Peruvian SMEs, focusing on internationalization and information communication technologies. Through qualitative content and ... -
The Centrality of Urban Economies to the Study of Competitiveness
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2013)Urban competitiveness has become a primary focal point for the study of public policy during the past quarter century. As cities have become more exposed to challenges posed to their economic activity by other cities, ... -
Coalition Formation and Data Envelopment Analysis
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2011)The introduction of a framework for optimal coalition formation using data envelopment analysis (DEA) methods is the focus of this paper. Simple examples illustrate how DEA is useful in formulating coalition models and ... -
Competitive Advantage of Operational and Dynamic Information Technology Capabilities
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2009)Based on contradictory findings reported by researchers into the payoffs of information technology (IT) investments, a key question for information system researchers and practitioners concerns what role IT may play in ...
