Countries that are candidates for EU accession face a complex and urgent task to adopt and implement the acquis … communautaireon food safety. For the food industries in Candidate Countries, this implies that EU standards of food production and … application of the benchmarking methodology taking the UK fresh produce importing chain as the benchmark. …

initiating a quality evaluation cycle in which benchmarking forms an integral component of the strategic process. …

were calculated for 138 VAMCs. Percentile ranks for each outcome were assigned. Two approaches were used for benchmarking … facilities (n = 16) was 3 or less. EPRP and 1998 VHS data demonstrated that the survey measures and benchmarking approaches were …

parallel operations. It defines and articulates four kinds of benchmarking and explores the potential of this empirical … approach to knowledge acquisition. Some comparisons and a synthesis of benchmarking studies from the hotel sector, from tour … operators and from the national park management world are included in the conceptual appraisal of the benchmarking approach. The …

techniques like total quality management, benchmarking etcetera. Data on the current use of cost-and management accounting by …

practices that lead to best performance. A customer quality defined standard has to be created by benchmarking the Information … (DEA) methodology is used as a benchmarking tool to locate a frontier which is then used to evaluate the efficiency of each …

. This paper presents their cross-institutional benchmarking relationship as a case study in building the necessary trust … developed by an ALTC Teaching Quality Indicators Project team. UTAS and UOW had formerly been involved in a trial benchmarking … to the development of their benchmarking policy and processes. The focus on assessment ensured the project would explore …

internal market has forced the EU countries to increase competitiveness. The economic prosperity of countries is associated … market. Financial crisis in the EU has changed the look on the competitiveness research. Economy in the main countries has to …, the crisis is also having an effect on households and businesses - economic growth has slowed sharply and in some EU …