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{"title":"Estimating potential economic savings of water utilities due to improvements on technical and allocative inefficiencies","authors":"Alexandros Maziotis ,&nbsp;Ramon Sala-Garrido ,&nbsp;Manuel Mocholi-Arce ,&nbsp;Maria Molinos-Senante","doi":"10.1016/j.seps.2024.102142","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.seps.2024.102142","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This research investigated both technical and allocative inefficiencies in water utilities, and its impact on production costs. Using the stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) primal system, the study delved into the Chilean water sector between 2010 and 2017. Results showed an average technical inefficiency (TI) of 0.507 and allocative inefficiency (AI) of −0.417, indicating an overemphasis on capital over operational expenditures. The economic consequences of TI and AI were approximately US$ 1297 million and US$ 237 million per annum, respectively. On an individual scale, the increase on production costs due to TI and AI were estimated at 0.390 US$/m³, 0.471 US$/m³ and 0.038 US$/m³ for full private utilities, concessionary utilities and the public utility, respectively. The results of the study evidence the need for holistic efficiency assessments to avoid biased policymaking, illuminating the prevailing trend of favoring capital expenditures, and revealing potential economic benefits for consumers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":22033,"journal":{"name":"Socio-economic Planning Sciences","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 102142"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143134444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An integrative approach to reviewing the literature on judicial efficiency in Europe","authors":"Miguel Alves Pereira ,&nbsp;Luiza Bădin ,&nbsp;Kristiaan Kerstens ,&nbsp;Maria Conceição Silva","doi":"10.1016/j.seps.2024.102137","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.seps.2024.102137","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The law exists to regulate the behaviour of the members of its community. Economics exists to study the behaviour of individual or group economic agents in allocating resources for production, distribution, and consumption. Together, law and economics concern the application of economics to the practice of law, seeing the law as an economic efficiency-promoting tool for social purposes. Indeed, economic development and litigation have evolved hand in hand, which led to a growing difference between supply and demand with a direct impact on judicial efficiency. However, evaluating the functioning of judicial machinery has been addressed superficially in the literature. Furthermore, grasping the big picture of judicial efficiency in a structured way has never been attempted. Therefore, this integrative literature review investigates judicial efficiency within the European context by synthesising law and economics research. From over 6,500 articles, 50 were critically analysed, offering new perspectives for future research and policy implications on enhancing European judicial systems. This analysis concerned bibliographic data (e.g., 80% of the studies have been published over the last decade), application context (e.g., Italian courts are the most studied entities), model structure (e.g., Data Envelopment Analysis-based methods are the most used ones to measure judicial efficiency), and key findings (e.g., courts across Europe are very heterogeneous). In the end, we provide several renewed perspectives on judicial efficiency that can pave the way for the future of this topic.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":22033,"journal":{"name":"Socio-economic Planning Sciences","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 102137"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143134503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Towards gender equality in education: Different strategies to improve subnational performance of European countries using data envelopment analysis","authors":"Dovilė Stumbrienė ,&nbsp;José L. Ruiz ,&nbsp;Inmaculada Sirvent","doi":"10.1016/j.seps.2024.102138","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.seps.2024.102138","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The principle of equality between women and men is enshrined as one of the core values of the European Union. Even though in many European countries women outperform men at all educational levels, the perspective of men is limited in the strategies that frame gender equality. This paper assumes that the gender gap matters, regardless of its direction, towards gender equality in education. The paper proposes a benchmarking approach through a bi-objective Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model used in evaluating 30 European countries at the subnational level in terms of performance indicators, which are disaggregated by gender. Thus, the model incorporates information on gender equality and employs it to set region-specific targets seeking both to close the gap between actual performances and best practices (i.e., minimizing the efforts for improving performance) and to close the gender gap. Varying the importance attached to each of the two objectives considered, the proposed approach generates a series of targets that allow us to identify alternative planning strategies for improving performance toward best practices while at the same time closing the gender gap.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":22033,"journal":{"name":"Socio-economic Planning Sciences","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 102138"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143134551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Integrating circular economy principles into a modified theory of Planned Behaviour: Exploring customer intentions and experiences with collaborative consumption on Airbnb","authors":"Umair Tanveer ,&nbsp;Shara Nica Agung Sahara ,&nbsp;Marios Kremantzis ,&nbsp;Shamaila Ishaq","doi":"10.1016/j.seps.2024.102136","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.seps.2024.102136","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The sharing economy, exemplified by platforms like Airbnb, has significantly disrupted traditional business models through peer-to-peer sharing of underutilized assets. This study investigates the influence of circular economy (CE) principles and customers' past experiences on their intention to participate in collaborative consumption (CC), focusing on Airbnb. Despite economic, social, and environmental benefits, such as resource efficiency and community connections, concerns about affordable housing and community disruption persist. This research integrates CE principles into the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB), examining attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioural control as predictors of CC intention. Using a quantitative research design, data were collected from an online survey of 449 Airbnb users. The study found that economic benefits substantially affected customer attitudes towards CC, while perceived behavioural control and subjective norms significantly influenced CC intentions. Interestingly, past experience negatively moderated the relationship between attitude and CC intention, indicating that frequent users prioritize cost savings over positive product assessments. These findings highlight the importance of emphasizing economic advantages in marketing and suggest the need for educational initiatives to reshape frequent users' perceptions. This research provides practical insights for Airbnb and other CC providers to develop targeted strategies promoting customer adoption. It also offers policymakers guidance for supporting <span>CC</span> growth and sustainability, enhancing the TPB framework by incorporating <span>CE</span> principles and past experience to offer a comprehensive understanding of factors influencing <span>CC</span> intentions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":22033,"journal":{"name":"Socio-economic Planning Sciences","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 102136"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143134549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Does regional economic development drive sustainable grain production growth in China? Evidence from spatiotemporal perspective on low-carbon total factor productivity","authors":"Ruixue Wang ,&nbsp;Xiangzheng Deng ,&nbsp;Yunxiao Gao ,&nbsp;Jiancheng Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.seps.2024.102129","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.seps.2024.102129","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Contrary to conventional expectations, the impact of economic development on food green efficiency exhibits pronounced regional heterogeneity. This study utilizes total factor productivity (TFP) as a key metric, establishing a model for carbon emissions from grain production and developing a framework for measuring grain low-carbon TFP growth. Employing the undesirable super-slacks-based measure (SBM) and the Malmquist-Luenberger (ML) index, we assess the low-carbon TFP growth across 31 Chinese provinces from 2000 to 2021. The Dagum–Gini coefficient and variance decomposition are applied to analyze disparities from both regional and structural perspectives. An econometric model further validates the influence of economic development on low-carbon TFP growth. Our findings reveal that China's technical efficiency (TE) and low carbon TE initially show a declining trend, with the gap between them narrowing over time. The eastern region consistently demonstrates high low-carbon TE, while the northeastern region lags. All regions exhibit positive low-carbon TFP growth, with efficiency change (EC) significantly contributing to this growth. Although economic development generally fosters low-carbon TFP growth, marked regional heterogeneity persists. Interestingly, certain traditionally economically developed regions, such as the eastern region, exert a significantly negative impact on low-carbon TFP growth. Balancing economic development with low-carbon TFP growth remains an ongoing challenge that necessitates effective management strategies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":22033,"journal":{"name":"Socio-economic Planning Sciences","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 102129"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143134552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessing changes in wealth index using primary survey data","authors":"Sandeep Kumar ,&nbsp;S. Chakraverty ,&nbsp;Narayan Sethi","doi":"10.1016/j.seps.2024.102115","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.seps.2024.102115","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this study, we have introduced a new method to develop the Wealth Index (WI). In this regard, primary survey data, along with secondary data obtained from the National Family Health Survey-4 (NFHS-4) and NFHS-5 datasets, is used to construct the WI for the Koraput district in the Indian state of Odisha. Furthermore, we compared the WI obtained from the primary data with the WI obtained from the NFHS-4 and NFHS-5 data sets for Koraput and Odisha. Furthermore, to analyze wealth disparities at a finer scale, we computed and compared sub-indices in a similar manner to the WI. To develop the WI, we adopted a novel approach based on principal component analysis (PCA) with orthogonal rotation of factors whose eigenvalue is greater than 1 to utilize the maximum variance of data. The results derived from the WI and its sub-indices indicate that, when contrasted with Odisha as a whole, Koraput exhibits a lower level of wealth. The findings also reveal that, over time, there has been some improvement in wealth conditions, but they remain a cause for serious concern. Overall, the WI for the said district presents critical results, underscoring the urgent need for government or NGO intervention.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":22033,"journal":{"name":"Socio-economic Planning Sciences","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 102115"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143134546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Equity and sustainability in the health care market: Socio-economic analysis of governance and reforms","authors":"Lucia Leporatti,&nbsp;Ching-to Albert Ma","doi":"10.1016/j.seps.2024.102074","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.seps.2024.102074","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22033,"journal":{"name":"Socio-economic Planning Sciences","volume":"96 ","pages":"Article 102074"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142748224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Enhancing SMEs sustainable innovation and performance through digital transformation: Insights from strategic technology, organizational dynamics, and environmental adaptation","authors":"Shaofeng Wang ,&nbsp;Hao Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.seps.2024.102124","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.seps.2024.102124","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>With the advent of the digital wave, understanding the impact of Digital Transformation on sustainable development in firms is increasingly important. Drawing from the Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) framework and the Dynamic capability view, this study investigates the determinants of Digital Transformation and its impact on Sustainable Innovation Capability and Sustainable Organizational Performance. Data from 261 firms were collected via surveys and analyzed using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA). The results demonstrate that Technology, Organization, and Environment are critical factors driving Digital Transformation. Digital Transformation can enhance Sustainable Organizational Performance by improving a firm's Sustainable Innovation Capability. Environmental Dynamism positively moderates the effect of Digital Transformation on Sustainable Innovation Capability and Sustainable Organizational Performance. Importance-performance map analysis (IPMA) confirms Digital Transformation as the most significant predictor of Sustainable Organizational Performance. fsQCA identifies three configurations leading to highly Sustainable Organizational Performance. These findings provide new theoretical evidence for understanding the relationships among Digital Transformation, Sustainable Innovation Capability, and Sustainable Organizational Performance and the moderating role of Environmental Dynamism in these relationships. This study offers a new perspective on the relationship between <span>Digital</span> Transformation and sustainable development and supports applying TOE framework, and Dynamic capability view. The results are significant for understanding the drivers of Digital Transformation and its impact on sustainable development in firms.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":22033,"journal":{"name":"Socio-economic Planning Sciences","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 102124"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143134547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Measuring efficiency in tourism: A problem of shared factors and multiple attributes in DEA","authors":"Sonia Valeria Avilés-Sacoto ,&nbsp;Estefanía Caridad Avilés-Sacoto ,&nbsp;Wade D. Cook ,&nbsp;David Güemes-Castorena","doi":"10.1016/j.seps.2024.102117","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.seps.2024.102117","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The current research makes three main contributions to the DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) literature. <em>First,</em> when using DEA to derive an efficiency score for a given DMU, it is normally assumed that each and every DMU has its own unique set of inputs and outputs, there are situations whereby a DMU can have a factor that is shared with other DMUs. This means that one must view efficiency from the perspective of groups of DMUs rather than from the perspective of the individual DMU. <em>Second,</em> two stage problems can, in the presence of shared factors, result in different groupings of DMUs in one stage than in another<em>. Third,</em> in certain circumstances efficiency can be viewed from the perspective of multiple attributes (e.g. different types of tourism). Herein, we develop a model to cater for these features and illustrate the model using a data set on tourism in Mexico.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":22033,"journal":{"name":"Socio-economic Planning Sciences","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 102117"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143134545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A sustainable vaccine supply-production-distribution network with heterologous and homologous vaccination strategies: Bi-objective optimization","authors":"Ali Jahed ,&nbsp;Seyyed Mohammad Hadji Molana ,&nbsp;Reza Tavakkoli-Moghaddam","doi":"10.1016/j.seps.2024.102113","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.seps.2024.102113","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Heterologous and homologous Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination against Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)-CoV-2 are robust and proactively adaptable strategies. However, there is still a lack of appropriate mathematical models for integrating vaccination strategies into the vaccine supply chain network. This study develops a supply-production-distribution-inventory-allocation problem in the Sustainable Vaccine Supply-Production-Distribution Network (SVSPDN) to fill this gap for the first time. The outstanding novelties of this research are prioritizing vaccines and sequencing injection doses to increase vaccination effectiveness. In addition, the remarkable new contribution of the proposed mathematical model is the design of new bi-objective, multi-dose, multi-level, and multi-period to ensure the sustainability performance of the entire network. This aim is achievable by minimizing the cost of supplying, producing, and distributing vaccines and fulfilling social goals by maximizing vaccination effectiveness. Also, a scenario-based robust stochastic optimization approach is presented to handle uncertainties. Since the SVSPDN design is an NP-hard problem, to solve the proposed mathematical model, three Pareto-based evolutionary algorithms, including Non-Dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II (NSGA-II), Multi-Objective Particle Swarm Optimization (MOPSO), and Multi-Objective Gray Wolf Optimizer (MOGWO), are applied. The Taguchi design method is applied to tuning the parameters due to the sensitivity of meta-heuristic algorithms to input parameters. Then, a comparison is performed using four assessment metrics, including the Number of Pareto Solutions (NPS), Diversification Matrix (DM), Mean Ideal Distance (MID), Spread of Non-Dominance Solutions (SNS), and Computation Time (CT). The results reveal that the NSGA-II and MOGWO algorithms have performances that are very close to each other. However, MOGWO performs better in tackling the problem and is superior to the NSGA-II and MOPSO regarding assessment metrics and computation time. A case study of Iran is investigated to indicate the efficiency and applicability of the proposed model. Finally, sensitivity analyses, managerial insights, and practical implications are discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":22033,"journal":{"name":"Socio-economic Planning Sciences","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 102113"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143134548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}