Intellectual capital and performance in the Chinese life insurance industry

Omega (United Kingdom)

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 65-74

  Lu, Wen Min ^a   Wang, Wei Kang ^b   Kweh, Qian Long ^c  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c Universiti Tenaga Nasional   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Chinese life insurance; Dynamic slack based measure (DSBM) model; Intellectual capital; Truncated regression

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; EFFICIENCY; INSURANCE; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

CHINESE LIFE INSURANCE; DYNAMIC SLACK-BASED MEASURE MODEL; INSURANCE COMPANIES; INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL; LIFE INSURANCE; LIFE INSURANCE INDUSTRY; MEASURE MODEL; PERFORMANCE; SLACK-BASED MEASURES; TRUNCATED REGRESSION;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84876705397     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2013.03.002     Document Type: Article

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