each loan approved regardless of quality, which resulted in a large number of defaults several years later. BP, the oil … push low quality software into production in order to meet that deadline. Similarly, I have seen incentives (for meeting … budget numbers on a project) influence managers to eliminate planning and quality assurance in order to lower the cost of …

addition to "productivity", firms are also heterogeneous in their "caliber" — the ability to produce quality using fewer fixed …We develop a model of international trade with export quality requirements and two dimensions of firm heterogeneity. In … inputs. Compared to single-attribute models of firm heterogeneity emphasizing either productivity or the ability to produce …

financial years.ivSurvey of the questionnaire shows average scores for productivity and quality. It isnoteworthy, that the … productivity and quality. …The aim of this study was to investigate a productivity measurement at the SouthAfrican Minting Company and evaluate …

Ontology evaluation is the task of measuring the quality of an ontology. It enables us to answer the following main … question: How to assess the quality of an ontology for the Web? In this thesis a theoretical framework and several methods …

the trade name of the online database available commercially and internally to the organisation.Quality issues are … acknowledged by database producers but are often overlooked due to resource, technology and human constraints. The key quality … issues include contents, data quality, customer support and database structure. The objective of investigating these issues …

little attention given to managing the quality of a business process during its life cycle. This study addresses this gap by … providing a framework for organisations to manage the quality of business processes during different phases of the BPM life … research methodology. During the design science phase, the artifacts to model a quality-aware business process were developed …

between dependability, quality and customer satisfaction (RQ1) within the context of information service sector. Literature … looking at the interrelationship between the dependability and quality (RQ2a), and their further impact on customer … existing literature. This thesis also attempts to investigate the relative significance of dependability and quality in both B2 …