assesses private management methods of dealing with price volatility. In this article, we provide an opportunity to understand …

structuring and management of the value chain. We address the importance of different quality dimensions, and how they are … control throughout the value chain. Implications for management of the value chain and contract relations between the actors …

In this paper I propose and develop a new framework for modeling groundwater management issues. Specifically, I apply … the methods of queuing theory—for the first time, to the best of my knowledge—to model a groundwater management problem … from a long-run perspective. I characterize two simple management regimes as two different kinds of queues and then show …

. Entrepreneurs decide the number of layers of management and the knowledge and span of control of each agent. As a result, in the … that, as a result of a bilateral trade liberalization, firms that export will increase the number of layers of management …

We have conducted the first survey on management practices in transition countries. We found that Central Asian … transition countries, such as Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, have on average very poor management practices. Their average scores are … Poland and Lithuania operate with management practices that are only moderately worse than those of western European …

Recent studies have demonstrated the importance of good management for firm performance. Here, we focus on management … in not-for-profits (NFPs). We present a model predicting that management quality will be lower in NFPs compared to for …-profits (FPs), but that outputs may not be worse if managers are altruistic. Using a tried and tested survey of management …

We comment on four aspects of Albers' [1] model of ecological constraints on tropical forest management. Albers … management, we contend instead that the results of a truly general, empirically defensible model are inherently ambiguous … have us believe. Note: Forthcoming in Journal of Environmental Economics and Management …

In this paper we examine the causal impact of competition on management quality. We analyze the hospital sector where … management quality - measured using a new survey tool - is strongly correlated with financial and clinical outcomes such as … a greater number of neighboring hospitals) is positively correlated with increased management quality, and this …

We comment on four aspects of Albers' [1] model of ecological constraints on tropical forest management. Albers … management, we contend instead that the results of a truly general, empirically defensible model are inherently ambiguous …