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Three main approaches can be used to assess infrastructure performance. The first employs macro-econometric techniques to estimate the impact of the existing infrastructure capital stock on growth and to infer its growth-maximising level. This approach neglects the impact of infrastructure on...
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Three main approaches can be used to assess infrastructure performance. The first employs macro-econometric techniques to estimate the impact of the existing infrastructure capital stock on growth and to infer its growth-maximising level. This approach neglects the impact of infrastructure on...
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The issue of quality and its relationship with efficiency and performance is a crucial operational issue in many fields of study including production economics, operations research, engineering and business management. In this paper we provide a methodology for identifying latent quality...
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A company's performance significantly depends on how well a company manages its finances keeping in view the short term hurdles and long term goals. One objective of financial statement analysis is to determine firm value. Research suggests that a firm's value is a function of the expected...
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Court delay in extending the procedural life of a case under any legal system has been considered as one of the main sources of direct costs and uncertainty for businesses once litigation starts (Buscaglia, 1995). Times to disposition are a basic ingredient of the judicial system efficacy,...
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French Abstract: Le manque d’infrastructures de qualité en Afrique est largement reconnu dans la littérature, et ce déficit contraint sévèrement la compétitivité et l’intégration régionale dans le continent. Malgré une augmentation régulière des investissements infrastructurels...
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In this article an application-oriented approach to analyze the cost of conformance of services, i. e. ‘cost of customer satisfaction’, is presented. Contrary to quality costing methods in manufacturing industries, which are concerned about objective quality standards, services have to...
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