, operational efficiency is higher in those ATOs where the water service supply concession contracts that fit the schemes of the new … between operational efficiency in the integrated water management industry in Italy and the typology of service providers, and … efficient. It uses Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to calculate ATO efficiency and a stepwise regression procedure performed to …

paper emphasizes the concept of efficiency and explores implications for pharmaceutical marketing. Design …Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider the efficiency of US healthcare in an international context. The … spending and pharmaceutical marketing. Findings – US healthcare spending is inordinately high as a share of gross domestic …

Abstract Existing theory suggests that three “order effects” may emerge in multi-stage tournaments with information …

tournaments literature by examining the performance of three data sets pertaining to the performance and evidence of tournament …

“tournaments” from agency theory and the personal characteristics of perpetrators and victims. Research limitations … perpetrators and their participation in organisational politics and competitive tournaments may well be preventing the recognition … perspective. It also uses the concept of “tournaments” to propose why Australian managers tend to want to “sweep the issue under …

A company has to operate with flexibility and cost-efficiency due to the continuously competitive business environment …. Nowadays, cloud computing (CC) plays an essential part in flexibility and cost-efficiency of IT infrastructure. Companies using … CC have to know how different types of contracts and their terms, modes of relationships, contract quality, and …