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Are credit unions in Ecuador achieving economies of scale?

Marchio, Nick A - 2009

This study tests the assertion that membership growth in credit unions is constrained by their unique structural features, such as their non-profit mission and member-based ownership. Although these features enhance inclusiveness, existing theory suggest that they work against efficiency when...

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Complementary and Cost Reduction: Evidence from the Auto Supply Industry

Helper, Susan - 2002

support for Milgrom and Roberts's conceptthat certain production practices exhibit complementary. …

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Interaction, privacy and profiling considerations in local mobile social software : a prototype agile ride share system

Ghelawat, Sunil; Radke, Kenneth; Brereton, Margot - 2010

data into formal fields for explicit computation of matches, as is done in many systems, may not be the best strategy. It … might be preferable to support informal communication and negotiation with text search techniques. …

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Fixing the system? The experience of service users of the quasi-market in disability services in Australia

Spall, Pamela; McDonald, Catherine; Zetlin, Diane - 2005

A qualitative study involving semi-structured interviews with 31 people with disabilities and 32 carers in the state of Queensland, Australia, found that their experience of supportive service delivery had not improved despite reforms of the service delivery system driven by a version of the...

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Benchmarking of performance of Mexican states with effective coverage

Lozano, Rafael; Soliz, Patricia; Gakidou, Emmanuela; … - 2006

Benchmarking of the performance of states, provinces, or districts in a decentralised health system is important for fostering of accountability, monitoring of progress, identification of determinants of success and failure, and creation of a culture of evidence. The Mexican Ministry of Health...

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Risk adjustment for high utilizers of public mental health care

Kapur, Kanika; Young, Alexander S.; Murata, Dennis - 2000

Background: Publicly funded mental health systems are increasingly implementing managed care systems, such as … models for this population can be used to improve contracting for mental health care. Our objective is to develop risk …. Implications for Health Care Provision, Use, and Policy: Our results suggest that risk adjustment methods, as developed to data, do …

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Financial incentives and the health workforce

Scott, A; Connelly, LB - 2011

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Preference heterogeneity and choice of cardiac rehabilitation program: Results from a discrete choice experiment

Kjae, T; Gyrd-Hansen, D - 2008

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Bestuurstrategieë vir die optimalisering van die sorgfunksie van die skoolhoof / C.P. van der Vyver

Van der Vyver, Cornelius Petrus - 2011

Research problemThis research revolved around the problem: Which management strategies could be formulated and used in the caring role of the principal with regard to the educators?Research aimsArising from the problem, the aim of the research was firstly to describe the nature and determinants...

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THE ECONOMIC AND PHILOSOPHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE CONCEPT OF RESPONSIBILITY

Trifu, Alexandru; Juravle (Gavra), Ariadna-Ioana; … - 2017

Both the individuals and groups or the large organizations increasingly focus on responsibility: be it the responsibility in everyday actions or about the responsibility towards business partners, the environment, animals etc. the idea of assuming responsibility is becoming more and more present...

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