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On Hospital Competition: Quality, Efficiency, and Ownership
Herr, Annika - 2009
) quality, ii) efficiency, and iii) ownership.i) Quality of health care is the most important good of the health production … ownership type on the production of quality of care and efficiency from a theoretical (Chapter 2) and empirical perspective …, untersucht: i) die Qualität, ii) die Effizienz, und iii) die Trägerschaft.i) Die Qualität ist das wichtigste Produkt des …
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Feasibility Study to Identify the benefits of a Strategic Alliance between Aquatec-Maxcon and Ipswich City Council
Garner, Gary O.; Hollingsworth, Peter - 1998
This Feasibility Study is designed to form the base strategy document detailing operational guidelines for a proposed Alliance between Ipswich City Council's Water & Sewerage Services, and Aquatec-Maxcon Pty Ltd. The proposed entity name of the Alliance is Sunshine Water (Pty Ltd). The Project...
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Financing methods for small-scale hardwood plantations in Queensland, Australia
Velge, Francois; Harrison, Steve - 2009
Abstract Under Vision 2020, a target was set in 1997 for trebling the forestry plantation area in Australia by the year 2020. Government subsidies and extension for plantation establishment have largely disappeared, hence forestry expansion is highly dependent on access to private finance....
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Social capital's dark side: knowledge, reciprocity, and the liability of relationships
Hitt, Michael A. (contributor) - 2006
Social capital resources for the firm can be conceptualized as those executive-to-executive connections held by a firm’s top management team, as well as firm-to-firm relationships that exist fairly independently of particular individuals. This type of resource can compose an important portion...
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Political risk and foreign direct investment
Kamga Wafo, Guy Leopold - 1998
To conclude, if the political risk theoretically means anything, it means thinking about thefuture role of Nation-States, of culture, history and geography and market forces in theshaping of the international economic order. In considering the political risks in theirstrategies, MNCs as the...
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Hotel chains entering the Macedonian market
Miteva, Natasha - 2018
Hotel industry is characterized as one of the oldest, diverse, innovative, and important industries around the world. Given the low entry barriers for global markets, it is also highly attractive, and its greatest growth happens on international level. Hotel chains are the leaders in hotel...
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Essays in empirical industrial economics
Zulehner, Christine - 2001
This thesis consists of two parts, which are connected by an introduction on auction and oligopoly markets and a short …
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Four Essays in Insurance
Sonnenholzner, Michael - 2005
This thesis contains four essays which are all from the broader field of insurance economics. The chapters can be read independently, although there is a certain connection between the articles. Chapter 2, which deals with moral hazard, and chapter 3, which is on oligopolistic models in the...
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On singular control games : with applications to capital accumulation
Steg, Jan-Henrik - 2010
The aim of this work is to establish a mathematically precise framework for studying games of capital accumulation under uncertainty. Such games arise as a natural extension from different perspectives that all lead to singular control exercised by the agents, which induces some essential...
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10 years of transition in Ukraine agriculture: An analysis of productivity and efficiency of enterprises
Lissitsa, Alexej; Odening, Martin; Babycheva, Tamara - 2003
This paper analyzes efficiency and total factor productivity (TFP) change of large agriculturalenterprises during their … efficiency, which is found to be remarkably significant. At the sametime there is a high variation among individual enterprises … performance.The Tobit regression analysis is conducted where the efficiency scores are related tofactors such as farm type, farm …
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