addition to "productivity", firms are also heterogeneous in their "caliber" — the ability to produce quality using fewer fixed …We develop a model of international trade with export quality requirements and two dimensions of firm heterogeneity. In … inputs. Compared to single-attribute models of firm heterogeneity emphasizing either productivity or the ability to produce …

agrichemicals by growers to produce food. Thispaper reports the results of a 1995 survey of consumer attitudes and perceptions … aboutpesticides and fresh fruit and vegetable quality. While there is widespread concern about thehuman health hazards presented by … pesticide residues in food at the time of consumption, thissurvey population reports greater consumer concern about …

financial years.ivSurvey of the questionnaire shows average scores for productivity and quality. It isnoteworthy, that the … productivity and quality. …The aim of this study was to investigate a productivity measurement at the SouthAfrican Minting Company and evaluate …

This paper examines the causal relationship between exporting and productivity using a ten years long plant-level panel … length to trace the trajectory of TFP and other productivity measures of groups of firms classified by their export history …

survey for the years from 1991 to 2000.The thesis pays special attention to the role of exports for the development of plants …. German economic policy promotes firms in their step on foreign markets, because exports are expected to stimulate the … economic growth. In order that such a promotion has a positive effect in the long run, exports have to have a positive effect …

Ontology evaluation is the task of measuring the quality of an ontology. It enables us to answer the following main … question: How to assess the quality of an ontology for the Web? In this thesis a theoretical framework and several methods …

the trade name of the online database available commercially and internally to the organisation.Quality issues are … acknowledged by database producers but are often overlooked due to resource, technology and human constraints. The key quality … issues include contents, data quality, customer support and database structure. The objective of investigating these issues …

little attention given to managing the quality of a business process during its life cycle. This study addresses this gap by … providing a framework for organisations to manage the quality of business processes during different phases of the BPM life … research methodology. During the design science phase, the artifacts to model a quality-aware business process were developed …

between dependability, quality and customer satisfaction (RQ1) within the context of information service sector. Literature … looking at the interrelationship between the dependability and quality (RQ2a), and their further impact on customer … existing literature. This thesis also attempts to investigate the relative significance of dependability and quality in both B2 …

improve overall quality, there have been no studies to show that software vendors have an incentive to invest in building more …