Managerial efficiency under risk for broiler producers in Saudi Arabia
研究了沙特阿拉伯肉鸡生产商在商业风险下的管理效率，通过随机占优方法找出不同规模项目的最优生产方案，发现营销策略和兽医保健系统对各类项目均有效。
Managerial efficiency for broiler producers in Saudi Arabia is generally difficult to achieve. High investment costs coupled with relatively high average production costs and the consequent incompetent market prices, have resulted in projects either working at less than full capacity or being shut down completely. The aim here is to determine the most efficient production alternatives (actions) available to managers under business risk considerations. The ordinary stochastic dominance approach was used to solicit the most efficient production alternatives for broiler producing projects of all sizes in the Central Region of Saudi Arabia. For small- and medium-sized projects, the efficient production alternatives concentrated on marketing risk. For large projects, the efficient actions concentrated on both marketing and production risks. For the three sizes of projects, the two production alternatives that proved to be the most efficient, were the one that contains creating more marketing strategies and the one that adopts good veterinary care systems. On the other hand, the production alternative that deals with selecting good breeds of chicks appeared to be most efficient for small and large projects only. © 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.