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Every minute, at least one woman dies from pregnancy and childbirth complications; a further 20 suffer injury, infection or disease. Despite medical advances, and years of policy declarations, this tragic situation remains particularly severe in developing countries, violating a fundamental...
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We analyse the financial performance of small German hospitals based on balance sheet data of about 1,000 hospitals in 2007. Measures of financial performance are the earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortisation (EBITDA) and the probability of default (PD). We find that, on...
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We analyse the financial performance of small German hospitals based on balance sheet data of about 1,000 hospitals in 2007. Measures of financial performance are the earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortisation (EBITDA) and the probability of default (PD). We find that, on...
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Employers and business owners face the key challenges of productivity and market competitiveness. In Bulgaria there are about 215 000 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) with 72% of all the employees in active labour age. One of the issues facing managers is to provide safe and healthy working...
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Performance management systems can be divided into those that rely considerably on significant stakeholders and that ignore stakeholders, other than the stockholders and the clients. Decision makers willing to implement and use a performance management system must decide to what extent such...
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This paper examines changes in the distribution of workers among different size firms and the resulting impact on employment-based health benefits. Small firms account for much of the new job growth in the United States. However, the percentage of workers in firms with fewer than 500 employees...
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Die amtliche Statistik erfasst die außenwirtschaftlichen Aktivitäten deutscher Unternehmen unvollständig, sowohl im Hinblick auf die verschiedenen Formen des Auslandsengagements als auch hinsichtlich deren Volumina. Unternehmensangaben sind nur für die Ein- und Ausfuhren (Im-/Exporte) sowie...
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Der internationale Waren- und Dienstleistungshandel hat für deutsche KMU eine große Bedeutung. Die Ausfuhren und Einfuhren sind im letzten Jahrzehnt tendenziell ebenso gestiegen wie die Anzahl international aktiver Unternehmen. Im Jahr 2010 waren mindestens 345.000 KMU als Exporteure und...
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Germany. Most of the ICT companies invest in new know-how and achieve - mainly as a result of own investments into research …
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Betriebliches Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement zielt auf einen verantwortungsvollen Umgang mit Ressourcen und auf die entsprechende Gestaltung der innerbetrieblichen Abläufe ab. Dabei nutzen Unternehmen, die nachhaltiges Wirtschaften mit strategischen Zielen verbinden und hierbei über das gesetzlich...
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