Restrukturierungsansätze im Krankenhaus. … the existing structures in the health care sector in general and the hospital sector in particular. The environmental … the hospital sector and with it catalyze the need for economic action. Besides medical necessities, the economic paradigm …

In this research we will focus on three topics which we think are particularly relevant for hospital competition: i … to detect and reduce inefficiencies in this market. Therefore, hospital inefficiency is one main aspect in our research … (Chapters 3 and 4). Our research sheds some light on market outcomes by hospital ownership type given their respective …

We present a framework for measuring software quality using pricing anddemand data, and empirical estimates that … quantify the extent of qualitydegradation associated with software ver- sioning. Using a 7-month,108-product panel of software … sales from Amazon.com, we document theextent to which quality varies across different software versions,estimating quality …

Tropos is an agent-oriented software engineering (AOSE) methodology, based on the notion of actors, with goals and … plans, and spanning all the phases of software development, from the very early phases of requirements analysis down to the …

The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) aims to understand consumers’ adoption of new technologies. Some 30 years after … TAM was first proposed, it is still widely used today. This paper proposes an extended version of the TAM, with the … primary addition to it being the construct of consumers’ emotional attachment to an existing product. The expanded TAM …