The level of development of continuous improvement (CI) across all aspects of a firm?s operations provides a … examines the responses of firms using CI, taking into account the stage of development that the firm had reached in their … firms were in the early stages of development of CI, using it primarily in the manufacturing function at the operational …

The debate about the governance of complex systems of production represents a rich branchof the literature of applied …

Advances in human development are closely linked to increasing access to water and sanitation services in developing … countries. The present study investigates the role of governance for mastering this challenge. The motivation for choosing this … influence of governance, the study works out those political and sectoral institutions that are essential for the provision of …

network governance evolution that attempts to link environmental, network, production, firm and exchange factors in a …Which form of exchange governance performs better in a dynamic environment? This remains an unanswered question in the … transaction cost analysis (TCA) and relational exchange literatures. Some researchers purport that transactional governance …

introduced in the scientific discussion in the mid 1990th. The practice shows that VCs need new forms of governance because the … similar problems. As several governance mechanisms are already analyzed in this context, the authors analyze and adopt … governance concepts from open source projects to extract a governance framework for virtual corporations. This new approach leads …

The article discusses current approaches to the process of assessing rural development governance, reveals its … development governance and correlation of traditional functions, performed by the subjects of the governance process of rural … traditional functions, performed by governance subjects of local development, their supplementing with new ones, relevant to the …