En este trabajo se evalúa el estado actual de la investigación sobre Lean Production y Gestión de la Cadena de Suministro en la industria aeronáutica con dos objetivos básicos: 1) identificar el conjunto de líneas de investigación desarrolladas, aportando un criterio de clasificación de...

The purpose of this paper is to provide insights into the implementation of e-business processes in the procurement area of a healthcare supply chain when multiple stakeholders are involved. A single longitudinal case study spanning three years is presented using data collected from interviews,...

Information and communication technologies (ICT) for health or eHealth solutions hold great potential for generating systemic efficiencies by strengthening five critical pillars of a health system: human resources for health, supply chain management, health care financing, governance and service...

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To gain insight into the potential logistical benefits of worker cross-training and agile workforce policies, we study simple models of serial production systems with flexible servers operating under a constant work-in-process (CONWIP) release policy. Two important and interrelated issues are:...

Purpose – Public private partnerships (PPPs) are a relatively new policy that some governments now use to secure infrastructure assets. The objective of this paper is to document the construction and development of a Victorian state government hospital, Casey Hospital (CH), to identify the...

In this paper we compare productivity, efficiency and technological changes with and without case-mix as output categories using panel data on Ontario hospitals for the period 2002–2006. We use the Malmquist Productivity Index (MPI), Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), and non-parametric density...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the appropriateness of faith-based model (FBM) as a veritable policy response to the issue of poverty alleviation and actualisation of the millennium development goals (MDGs) in Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach – The paper combined...

Purpose – After discussing the high and rising health care costs in the USA, its disparities, and the suggested demand, supply, and managed competition-side strategies to contain health care costs and their ethical implications, this paper seeks to explore whether or not these strategies will...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the cross-country relation between initial levels of infant-, child- and maternal-mortality and their rates of decline so as to see whether the so-called Matthew effect or the inverse-care principle operates relative to these three important...