The corporate citizenship (CC) concept introduced by Dirk Matten and Andrew Crane has been well received. To this date, however, empirical studies based on this concept are lacking. In this article, we flesh out and operationalize the CC concept and develop an assessment tool for CC. Our tool...

This paper aims to identify the extent in which the interdepartmental conflicts from the local organizations can constitute a real barrier in assimilation of the concept of marketing in organizational practice in Romania. Based on an extensive literature review approach, which suggest different...

Master surgical scheduling can improve manageability and efficiency of operating room departments. This approach cyclically executes a master surgical schedule of surgery types. These surgery types need to be constructed with low variability to be efficient. Each surgery type is scheduled based...

Master surgical scheduling can improve manageability and efficiency of operating room departments. This approach cyclically executes a master surgical schedule of surgery types. These surgery types need to be constructed with low variability to be efficient. Each surgery type is scheduled based...

Several problems have been detected in most PV- systems installed all over the world, which justify research activities looking for different solutions to each situation, as it is the case of this argentinian PVPilot Project located in “Balde de Leyes” at San Juan Province. The research...

Material resources affect the levels of mortality. In cross-sectional relationships income has been found to be positively associated with survival, both within and between countries. Preston (1975, 1976), in particular, using cross-national data for three separate decades of the 20th century,...

Current GIS are often described as rich in functionality but poor in knowledge content and transfer. This paper presents a prototype for communicating data quality in spatial databases using a hybrid design between data-driven and user-driven factors based upon traditional communication and...

Estimates of adult mortality in countries with limited vital registration (e.g., sub-Saharan Africa) are often derived from information about the survival of a respondent’s siblings. We evaluated the completeness and accuracy of such data through a record linkage study conducted in Bandafassi,...

The year 2010 through 2011 witnessed a number of disasters such as floods in Pakistan and Eastern Europe and earthquakes in Chile, China and Haiti. In response, earth observation (EO) data, geographic information science (GIS) technologies and services were used to provide information before,...

Avalanche observations are an important factor foroperational avalanche warningand the main parameter to carry out an objectiveverification of the avalanche bulletinin retrospect. For the first time, a 50-year longseries of avalanche activity data of 84Swiss avalanche observation stations is...