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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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Community operational research: Its context and its future

Parry, R; Mingers, J - In: Omega 19 (1991) 6, pp. 577-586

Three years ago the Community OR initiative was launched by the OR Society with the aim of providing OR for non-traditional groups such as community and voluntary organizations. There is now a Community OR Unit, a Centre at Hull University and a network for interested members. This paper...

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CONSOLIDATING MARKETING INFORMATION FOR THE INTEGRATED CORPORATE LOGISTICS SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT

Berezovskyi, К.; Pylypenko, D. - In: Economics of Development 72 (2014) 4, pp. 89-94

Peculiar features of the integrated corporate logistics systems management information support have been identified and theoretical substantiation of its parameters has been provided. Procedures of marketing information consolidation with their division into internal and external consolidation...

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Using the Viable System Model (VSM) to structure information processing complexity in disaster response

Preece, Gary; Shaw, Duncan; Hayashi, Haruo - In: European Journal of Operational Research 224 (2013) 1, pp. 209-218

Earthquakes, hurricanes, flooding and terrorist attacks continue to threaten our society and, when the worst happens, lives depend on different agencies to manage the response. The literature shows that there is significant potential for operational research (OR) to aid disaster management and...

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Application of the Viable System Model to analyse communications structures: A case study of disaster response in Japan

Preece, Gary; Shaw, Duncan; Hayashi, Haruo - In: European Journal of Operational Research 243 (2015) 1, pp. 312-322

Every year, natural and man-made disasters affect hundreds of thousands of people and cause extensive damage. OR has made substantial contributions to disaster response and these have been the subject of several recent literature reviews. However, these reviews have also identified research gaps...

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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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Understanding Motivations of Sector Switchers

Apfel, Jefffey - In: Public Organization Review 13 (2013) 3, pp. 291-304

The motivation of “sector switchers”—individuals who move from one employment sector to another over the course of their careers—is under-researched. This exploratory study is a qualitative study of sector switchers. It uses interviews wit1h 50 such individuals to add depth to an...

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MORAL HAZARD AND ADVERSE SELECTION IN HEALTH INSURANCES, EVIDENCE FROM A TRANSITIONAL ECONOMY

NGUYEN, MINH THI - In: The Singapore Economic Review (SER) 59 (2014) 02, pp. 1450011-1

This paper uses special features of Vietnam's health insurance system to separately estimate the effects of moral hazard and adverse selection. Traditionally, the estimation of those effects is ad hoc due to the endogeneity of insurance status. Due to a special fact in Vietnam that there exist a...

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Problem structuring in participatory forest planning

Khadka, Chiranjeewee; Hujala, Teppo; Wolfslehner, Bernhard - In: Forest Policy and Economics 26 (2013) C, pp. 1-11

Decision-making for multi-purpose forestry requires well-aligned public participation and stakeholder interaction. The operational research community has developed both the theory and practice of problem-structuring methods (PSMs) to help stakeholders determine a solvable joint problem...

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The Fundaments of Applying the Concept of Public Service Motivation in the South-Eastern European States

Matei, Lucica; Fataciune (Badalan), Nicoleta - Facultatea de Administraţie Publică, Şcoala … - 2011

Public Service Motivation (PSM) is a relatively recent concept, defined for the first time in the 1990s in the United … encountered only in public institutions. These values, which represent the basis for the construction of PSM are not … region, the state or the organizational environment. European studies regarding PSM have mainly focused on Western Europe …

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