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Purpose – In successful purchasing relationships, effective communication is a key factor. The purpose of this paper is to explore whether the choice of communication media is affected by different stages in the relationship development process and by different purchasing contexts: product and...
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of e‐services and should examine other types of profile variables. Practical implications – Service providers may not … of the design of high quality e‐services and for multidisciplinary research in the field of services management, in …
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cultural change on the evolution of offshoring of services and knowledge‐based activities. Design/methodology/approach – The …
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services. It explores how quality management for business services influences the performance of the buying company and what … services to its full potential. However, buying companies using quality management practices for business services report … obtained from this paper can assist purchasers in their decision on how to design quality management practices. By …
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Purpose Services are highly important in a world economy which has increasingly become service driven. There is a … research directions in service modularity and architecture. Findings The growing focus on services has triggered needs to …, and to search for principles/theories that enhance services. The expanding research stream has explored various aspects of …
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In a recent paper on measuring efficiency of hospitals by Al‐Shammari a set of 15 hospitals were compared across three years with respect to multiple inputs and outputs. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) was utilized in the evaluation process. The results of this study provide some very useful...
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Most of previous research on manufacturing flexibility has been conceptual by nature and finalized to build analytical models and only a small percentage of the studies have focused on empirical observations of actual industrial practice. In this study, we applied a DEA‐based methodology to...
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decision‐making units (DMUs). The Charnes, Cooper and Rhodes (CCR) ratio is used to evaluate the relative efficiency of each … these branches in order to improve the quality of services and utilize the available resources more efficiently.  …
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