budgeting and forecasting, and to recommend a process to improve accuracy and efficiency. Design/methodology/approach – Key … forecasting practices of multi‐unit hotel management companies. Chi‐square and t ‐tests for equality of means were used to … not found in hospitality management textbooks. Current budgeting and forecasting methods used in the industry present …

(QC) techniques. Conducts a survey to investigate the awareness of quality and to shed some light on the extent of the …

Data from the American Hospital Association’s Annual Survey of Hospitals, which are used to produce the AHA Guide …, Hospital Statistics, and other data products, are widely used by hospital administrators, academic researchers, and healthcare … marketers. Although they are widely used, many who use data from the survey are unaware of their limitations and problems. Such …

LIBECON2000 is a project to collect and publish library statistics of 29 European countries on a Web‐site, ( www ….libecon2000.org ). The LIBECON‐2000 survey area comprises: states in Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC): Bulgaria; Czech Republic … about the future of the collection and publication of library statistics at the international level.  …

, and its application for current and future research. The successful achievement of key survey statistics suggests that … proposed prescriptive models of TQM spawned our research, which, in turn, required creation of a survey instrument. This paper …

Presents the results of a survey of the use of human resource information systems (HRIS) in smaller organizations …, conducted in 1998. The survey enquires as to the nature of information stored electronically in three core areas: personnel … training and recruitment. No sectoral differences were found. Similar to the results of IES/IPD surveys, and some academic work …

disciplines and by the few law firms which are leading the way for change. To answer that question a survey of Iowa law firms was … conducted. The survey was sent to 100 law firms in Iowa in an attempt to determine the extent to which these firms are adopting …The practice of law is under pressure from various sources. Economics is one such source. The number of licensed …