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Development of an integrated business improvement system for construction

Beatham, Simon - 2003

The construction industry has inherent problems due to its structure and fragmentation.Its poor performance has been challenged by its client base and it has been forced toseek ways to deliver improved performance. This project was initiated as a response tothis challenge and represents one...

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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...

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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

examined the effects of a balanced approach in the more specific domain of measuring innovation effectiveness in 144 small to … perception of benefits then had a subsequent effect on overall attitudes towards innovation. The study shows the importance of … measuring both financial and non-financial indicators of innovation effectiveness within SMEs and discusses ways in which these …

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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 hospitals in Germany. First, bootstrapped data envelopment analysis (DEA) was used to evaluate the efficiency of a panel (n = 1,046) of public, private for-profit, and private...

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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

Abstract Facilities management (FM) has been identified as a significant contributor to the overall economy of Australia. Its focus is not only the maintenance of property but also the operation of business. Measuring and improving performance in the FM of buildings is becoming important for...

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