Technical efficiency and technology gap of the manufacturing industry in China: Does firm ownership matter?

B Walheer, M He - World Development, 2020 - Elsevier
… output values to define all our technical efficiency and technology gap ratios: y ik ( x ikn ) , y i
… private firms were operating in these four sectors, which are typically low-tech sectors. More …

The technology gap and efficiency measure in WEC countries: Application of the hybrid meta frontier model

YH Chiu, JH Lee, CC Lu, MK Shyu, Z Luo - Energy Policy, 2012 - Elsevier
… , in order to measure the technical efficiency and technology gap ratios (TGR) of four different
… DEA model, to analyze the difference between different regions’ operational technologies. …

Estimating cost efficiency and the technology gap ratio using the metafrontier approach for Taiwanese international tourist hotels

YH Lin - Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
… Together with the low occupancy ratio, the addition of more supply raises the issue of
efficiency as an essential element of hotel operation. In economic theory, a firm would have the …

Energy efficiency performance of the industrial sector: From the perspective of technological gap in different regions in China

X Ouyang, J Chen, K Du - Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
… Furthermore, we establish the metafrontier to measure the technology gap ratio (TGR) … or
personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. …

Energy efficiency evaluation, technology gap ratio, and determinants of energy productivity change in developed and developing G20 economies: DEA super-SBM …

WUH Shah, N Zhu, G Hao, H Yan, R Yasmeen - Gondwana Research, 2024 - Elsevier
… In comparison developed countries needs to improve their technical efficiency in operational
process of energy conversion. In depth analysis of single country shows that in developed …

Research on innovation efficiency and technology gap in China economic development

JW Fang, Y Chiu - Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research, 2017 - World Scientific
… The group technology efficiency implies the aggregate technology efficiencies of the provinces
in each group, while the technology gap ratio defines the overall technology level of the …

Assessing the dynamic efficiency and technology gap of airports under different ownerships: A union dynamic NDEA approach

MM Yu, I Rakshit - Omega, 2023 - Elsevier
… to measure airport operational efficiency and the ways in … between airport ownership and
operational efficiency. In the … , and (ii) the technology gap ratio lying outside the restricted …

Assessment of technology gaps of tourist hotels in productive and service processes

CH Lin, YH Chiu, CW Huang - The Service Industries Journal, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
technology gaps. We use a meta-frontier model to calculate the meta-technology ratio (MTR)
that represents the technical … is primarily derived from relative operational performance. …

Measuring the technology gap and logistics performance of individual countries by using a meta-DEA–AR model

MM Yu, B Hsiao - Maritime Policy & Management, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
… The technical gap ratio (TGR) is a distance measurement … attributed to group technological
inefficiency and technology gap. A … their operational efficiency and high logistics technology. …

Total factor energy efficiency, carbon emission efficiency, and technology gap: Evidence from sub-industries of Anhui province in China

Y Chen, W Xu, Q Zhou, Z Zhou - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
… and operational ability. Based on the findings, some policy implications are proposed. …
Under the framework of meta-frontier, we estimate the TFEE, TFCE, and technology gap ratio TGR …