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The Pennsylvania Adoption Exchange Improves Its Matching Process
Unver, M. Utku Ünver; Slaugh, Vincent W.; Akan, Mustafa; … - Department of Economics, Boston College - 2014
The Pennsylvania Adoption Exchange (PAE) helps case workers representing children in state custody by recommending prospective families for adoption. We describe PAE's operational challenges using case worker surveys and a regression analysis of data on child outcomes over multiple years. Using...
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The Pennsylvania adoption exchange improves its matching process
Slaugh, Vincent W.; Akan, Mustafa; Kesten, Onur; … - 2014
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Toward a Viable Integrated Marketing Communications in Egypt
Ibrahim, Hisham; Moscardini, Alfredo; Ragab, Aiman - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2014
The concept of Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) has received significant coverage in literature. However, there is a problem in translating this concept into reality due to the difficulties of coordinating all communication tools in one program. The advances in communication technology...
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Overcoming critical failure factors in enterprise information systems implementation : a viable system model framework for manufacturing firms
Panagiotidis, Kyriakos; Tsolakis, Naoum; Tsigkas, Alexander - In: Journal of the Operational Research Society 74 (2023) 7, pp. 1670-1689
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Designing interagency responses to wicked problems : a viable system model board game
Sydelko, Pamela; Espinosa Salazar, Ángela Ma.; … - In: European journal of operational research : EJOR 312 (2024) 2, pp. 746-764
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The project-oriented organisation through the lens of viable systems
Lechler, Ruth Christine; Lehner, Patrick; Röösli, Franz; … - In: Project leadership and society 3 (2022), pp. 1-10
Organisations are increasingly implementing projects to respond to growing complexity and changes in their environments. Such organisations are referred to as project-oriented organisations. This organisation type has been described with regard to value-based, people-based and structure-based...
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Evaluating the product portfolio of Japanese public service broadcaster: Consumer vs. citizen's view
Tsuji, Masatsugu; Ichikawa, Yoshiharu - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2014
's channel×genre matrix management is oriented to the way as pay-TV or to public service value, PSM (Propensity Score Matching …) is employed. Using PSM, the sample population is divided into two groups, the consumer's view and the citizen's view, and …
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Disentangling the Role of Contract Types and Sector Disparities for Public Service Motivation
Grund, Christian; Thommes, Kirsten - 2015
specific public service motivation (PSM) is shaped. In our paper, we analyze how different degrees of inclusion in the public … sector impact PSM. We also investigate how prospects of employment relations (fixed-term versus permanent contracts …), temporal differences (part-time versus full-time employment), and actual jobs (core versus subsidiary jobs) moderate PSM in …
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Adoption of improved groundnut seed and its impact on rural households' welfare in Eastern Ethiopia
Ahmed, Musa H.; Mesfin, Hiwot M.; Abady, Seltene; … - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 4 (2016) 1, pp. 1-18
This study has evaluated the impact of adoption of improved groundnut seed on the well-being of the farmers of Eastern Ethiopia using a cross-sectional data collected from 301 sample households. To address this objective, both descriptive and econometric analysis methods were employed. In the...
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