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Versicherungsbetrug als ökonomisches Problem: Eine vertragstheoretische Analyse
Schiller, Jörg - Fachbereich Betriebswirtschaftslehre, Universität Hamburg - 2004
Vertragstheorie - ausgewählte Ansatzpunkte zur Betrugsbekämpfung und insbesondere das Problem der Sanktionierung von ertappten … using existing results of contract theory. …
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Development of broiler integration in Peru
Shimizu, Tatsuya - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011
possible due to technological changes in production as well as integration of various stages of production, such as breeding … characteristics in Peruvian broiler integration that differ from those in developed countries. One is the truncated scope of … integration, in which the slaughtering and processing stages are not integrated. The other is that not slaughtering and processing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009351440
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Europe's future after the European Council meeting of June 2007: A panel discussion
Bordignon, Massimo; Gros, Daniel; Roland, Gérard; … - In: CESifo Forum 8 (2007) 4, pp. 39-44
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Performance-Based Contracts for Outpatient Medical Services
Jiang, Houyuan; Pang, Zhan; Savin, Sergei - In: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 14 (2012) 4, pp. 654-669
contract terms. Given the incentives offered by the contract, the provider maximizes his payoff by allocating his outpatient … used in practice cannot implement the first-best solution and that the linear performance-based contract cannot implement …
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Measuring the efficiency of highway maintenance contracting strategies: A bootstrapped non-parametric meta-frontier approach
Fallah-Fini, Saeideh; Triantis, Konstantinos; la Garza, … - In: European Journal of Operational Research 219 (2012) 1, pp. 134-145
Highly deteriorated US road infrastructure, major budgetary restrictions and the significant growth in traffic have led to an emerging need for improving performance of highway maintenance practices. Privatizing some portions of road maintenance operations by state Departments of Transportation...
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Maximizing system availability through joint decision on component redundancy and spares inventory
Xie, Wei; Liao, Haitao; Jin, Tongdan - In: European Journal of Operational Research 237 (2014) 1, pp. 164-176
For a repairable k-out-of-n:G system consisting of line-replaceable units, its operational availability depends on component reliability, its redundancy level, and spare parts availability. As a result, it is important to consider redundancy allocation and spare parts provisioning simultaneously...
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Why performance-based contracting failed in Uganda – An “open-box” evaluation of a complex health system intervention
Ssengooba, Freddie; McPake, Barbara; Palmer, Natasha - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 2, pp. 377-383
Performance-based contracting (PBC) is a tool that links rewards to attainment of measurable performance targets. Significant problems remain in the methods used to evaluate this tool. The primary focus of evaluations on the effects of PBC (black-box) and less attention to how these effects...
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Risk under performance-based contracting in the UK construction sector
Gruneberg, Stephen; Hughes, Will; Ancell, Debbie - In: Construction Management and Economics 25 (2007) 7, pp. 691-699
As a method of procuring the services of the built environment, performance-based contracting (PBC) seeks to link the building supplier to longer term commitments than has traditionally been the case in the construction sector. By rewarding the building producer according to the way that...
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A game-theoretical approach for optimizing maintenance, spares and service capacity in performance contracting
Jin, Tongdan; Tian, Zhigang; Xie, Min - In: International Journal of Production Economics 161 (2015) C, pp. 31-43
. Numerical studies from wind industry show that a single or a consolidated multi-item contract could be advantageous over …
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Symbiotic Learning Systems: Reorganizing and Integrating Learning Efforts and Responsibilities Between Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) and Work Places
Eikeland, Olav - In: Journal of the Knowledge Economy 4 (2013) 1, pp. 98-118
This article presents the idea of “symbiotic learning systems” as a possible strategy for dealing with institutional knowledge and learning challenges posed by an emerging transition from “socially monopolized” to “socially distributed” knowledge generation and distribution. As...
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