The insurance performance measure: assembling the property and casualty profitability puzzle

Management Decision

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 734-740

  Calandro, Joseph ^a   Lane, Scott ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN   (United States)

Author keywords

Operations management; Performance measures; Property insurance; Underwriting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986097639     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740310496242     Document Type: Article

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