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The present paper is focused on estimating technical efficiency (TE) in the Tunisian insurance industry by means of DEA window methodology, while highlighting a window model parametric version. On a first stage, the achieved results emphasize well the persistence of a temporal heterogeneity in technical…

Improving performance is an important goal of modern management. The quality of the workforce is a deciding factor behind organizations’ success because employee performance has proven to have a significantly positive effect on their performance (Collis and Montgomery, 1995 pp. 118-128). There is a growing…

This paper illustrates how the process efficiency, the reporting relevance, reporting volume and the cost/benefit ratio of management reporting can be analyzed, benchmarked and improved. The proposed improvement process will be backed up with a case study and a survey made with 20 controllers and…

The traditional descriptions of economic models use ordinary differential equations (ODE), but when admitting the argument delay in a given model it is necessary to realize description using functional differential equations. It turns out the solution of such a model is closer to reality. It…

Not long ago, companies started investing millions of dollars on training and educating their workforce on new skills and improving prior skills. This increase in investment in training is mainly due to the rapid changes in technology and intense competition in the open market. However,…

The recognition of fingerprints has many utilities in the modern society because the fingerprint could be used as a unique id. In this article we present the main domains where the fingerprint recognition can be used, a short evolution of the fingerprint recognition process and…

Aims of regional development in terms of the new paradigm related to creativity and sustainability and possibilities of small municipalities (with decreasing population) to reach and to evaluate development accordingly to the new paradigm have stimulated authors’ interest to test regional development in small municipalities.…

It is now obvious that makeup increases perceived women’s attractiveness by men and women. Nevertheless, when it comes to the hiring process, the impact of the picture used on the curriculum vitae (CV) is often neglected. Our study aims to determine the circumstances under which…

The economic recession’s effects on Romanian economy, the entrepreneurship realities in the EU and Romania, and change management contributions to improve both of the above are the main coordinates of this paper. While economic environment determines entrepreneurship realities and highlights the need for a structured…

Complex decision making tasks of different natures, e.g. identifying of a profitability of a client in the insurance business, are based on vague, sparse, partially inconsistent and subjective knowledge of experts. One important problem related to realistic decision making tasks is uncertainty in input data…