than a traditional procurement. Moreover, they say, it is a waste of taxpayers’ money as PPPs don’t bring efficiencies and … objective evaluation of it. It turned out to that it is hard to give one precise answer whether PPPs are worthy of public …

areas: 1) risk benefits (financial, legal and project related benefits), 2) management and communication benefits (within …

outcomes via interactions with entrepreneurs' existing networks. In order to account for the dynamic nature of entrepreneurial … entrepreneurs' networks across two time frames. The second study used a cross-sectional mass mail survey design to investigate all …Entrepreneurs need resources to organize new venture offerings into marketplace-acceptable forms. Entrepreneurs use …

into weaker forms of collaborations including value chains and networks. This observation has forced are … feasible tomeasure. While conceptual approaches have been studied in the management literature, this paper considers … in supply chains and networks. The paper offers suggestions on empirical methods forestimation of measures derived. …

relationships in the process, positive steps can be made towards the marketing of a work and the career progression of the … playwright. The issues of marketing and career progression are considered in a regional context. The thesis comprises the …

Business relations and networks play a central role in the way business and economic systems are organised and function … static and cross-section surveys. In order to develop appropriate research-based management and policy advice we need a … better understanding of how business relations and networks form and evolve. One way to do this is through the development of …

How can a service firm right-size marketing expenses and yet strive to maximize revenue? This paper represents the … first attempt to model these efficiency and effectiveness issues using a 49-unit Asia-Pacific hotel chain as illustration …. We employ a triangular DEA model with total expenses (controlling for number of rooms) as the raw input, marketing …

in the Columbia Basin based on efforts to establish priorities under a regional data management framework. Data … Authority (CBFWA) Data Management Framework Subcommittee. We instituted an XML based web service allowing direct access to data … efficiency to free existing staff time to develop additional types of data from our partners. Another long-term theme related to …

paper ties together research on technological innovation with entrepreneurship and learning studies. The author stresses the … current thinking on the importance of entrepreneurship and learning influences to how a person adopts a technological …