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Mandatory Works Councils in Germany: Their Effects on Productivity and Profits
Müller, Steffen - 2009
Arbeitnehmer haben in Deutschland das Recht zur Wahl von Betriebsräten. Betriebsräte haben gesetzliche Informations-, Konsultations- und Mitbestimmungsrechte. Die Effekte von Betriebsräten auf Produktivität und Gewinne von mittelgroßen Betrieben des verarbeitenden Gewerbes werden mit Daten...
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Transit integration: why bother?
Ferreira, Luis - 2003
It has become generally accepted that to maximise patronage, transit must take people to where they want to go in a timely and convenient fashion. The benchmark in this case may be the most attractive available alternative mode, such as the private car with its door-to-door high level of...
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Destination branding : analysing brand equity for Queensland’s coral coast
Pike, Steven D. - 2009
Place branding has become a major focus of operations for destination marketing organisations (DMO) striving for differentiation in cluttered markets. The topic of destination branding has only received attention in the tourism literature since the late 1990s, and there has been relatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437738
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Elements of public asset management framework for local governments in developing countries
Hanis, Muhammad Hasbi; Trigunarsyah, Bambang; … - 2010
There is a widespread recognition to the need of better manage municipal property in most cities in the world. Structural problems across regional, state, and territorial governments that have legal powers to own and maintain real property are similar, regardless of the level of development of...
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An exploratory study of innovation effectiveness measurement between Australian and Thai SMEs
Sawang, Sukanlaya; Unsworth, Kerrie L.; Sorbello, Tamma M. - 2006
The advantages of using a balanced approach to measurement of overall organisational performance are well-known. We examined the effects of a balanced approach in the more specific domain of measuring innovation effectiveness in 144 small to medium sized companies in Australia and Thailand. We...
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Sustainable supply chains – a framework for best practice assessment: results of the pilot study, BestLog project.
Piotrowicz, Wojciech; Cuthbertson, Richard; Islei, Gerd
This paper presents results of a pilot study completed as part of the BestLog (Best Practices in Logistics) project. BestLog (www.bestlog.org) is a research project initiated by the European Commission (EC) and financed from the 6th Framework Programme. One of the project goals is to identify...
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Stochastic Frontier Analysis of Indonesian Firm Efficiency: A Note
Prabowo, Handono E. T.; Cabanda, Emilyn - 2011
This research attempts to model performance measurement for the firms listed on Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) using the stochastic frontier approach. There are 121 firms analyzed over the period of 2000-05 with 726 pooled observations. We also test whether firm’s age, size, market share,...
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Early Versus Late Effort in Dynamic Agencies with Unverifiable Information
Schöndube, Jens Robert - 2008
In this paper we analyze a dynamic agency problem where contracting parties do not know the agent's future productivity at the beginning of the relationship. We consider a two-period model where both the agent and the principal observe the agent's second-period productivity at the end of the...
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Effects of Ownership on Hospital Efficiency in Germany
Tiemann, Oliver; Schreyögg, Jonas - 2009
The objective of our study was to evaluate the efficiency of public, private for-profit, and private non-profit …,046) of public, private for-profit, and private non-profit hospitals between 2002 and 2006. This was followed by a second … hospitals performed significantly better than their private for-profit and non-profit counterparts. In addition, we found a …
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Measuring and Improving Performance in Facilities Management: The Complex Case of Satisfying Stakeholders in Shopping Centres
Wing-lun Arnold Kwok - 2009
-agreed or generally-accepted definition of what it entails and a theory of what it does. Its unclear scope and activities are a … ways to improve the FM of the built environment. Importantly, the research is not only directed at grounded theory …
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