The micro-economic foundation of a hospital's optimal resource allocation is discussed. The foundation of a quantitative method to evaluate a hospital's performance depends on the pure economic definition of efficiency. This study is important for scholars and practitioners in the field of...

What can studying the creation of knowledge tell us about how new technical fields emerge and develop? This paper shows how a knowledge community may be necessary to support the legitimacy of new products that undergo performance evaluation before purchase. Using historical and ethnographic data...

The purpose of this research report is to identify the appropriate market benchmark price to use to evaluate the pricing performance of market advisory services that are included in the annual AgMAS pricing performance evaluations. Five desirable properties of market benchmark prices are...