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x-inefficiency: a standalone construct

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Industrial organization

waste inside firms from lack of effort and motivation, as opposed to misallocation of resources across uses.

In industrial organization, x-inefficiency refers to waste inside firms from lack of effort and motivation, as opposed to misallocation of resources across uses. This meaning comes from Comanor and Leibenstein (1969) in Economica.[1]

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effort2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs misallocation1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct motivation6 fields · 18 citationsjingle · one name, six constructs

References

Comanor, W. S., & Leibenstein, H. (1969). Allocative efficiency, X-efficiency and the measurement of welfare losses. Economica, 36(143), 304. https://doi.org/10.2307/2551810

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