Technology adoption in the Australian beef industry has been low and slow compared to that in the intensive livestock and cropping industries. Adoption needs to be higher and faster to fully capture the benefits from new beef genetic and other technologies. The principles of rapid improvement...

Die ESI-Fonds sollen nach den Vorstellungen der EU-Kommission in der inzwischen angelaufenen Förderperiode entlang der gemeinsamen Zielsetzung von innovativem, nachhaltigem und integrativem Wachstum (EU-2020-Strategie) koordiniert werden. Die EU-Kommission hat dazu Verordnungsentwürfe und...

This research attempted to find and define holistic systems that affect the productivity of the knowledge worker (KW), using the soft systems methodology (SSM). It is not enough to look at the management and improvement of knowledge worker productivity (KWP) from the viewpoint of the...

The environment, where the changes are everyday occurrence and the competition continuous threat, forces the leading people in the organizations to look after everything that goes on inside the organizations, as well as everything that goes on outside of them. Thus, depending on the founder's...

Knowledge intensive, complex services play a crucial role in the economy and welfare of developed countries. However, service productivity management is not as much investigated as productivity in manufacturing. In this paper a literature based and empirically confirmed approach to a...