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ENVIRONMENT BENCHMARKING- A MODERN MANAGEMENT TOOL APPLIED TO PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN WORLD ECONOMIC CRISIS
CEPTUREANU, Sebastian; CEPTUREANU, Eduard - In: Proceedings of Administration and Public Management … 6 (2010) 1, pp. 291-302
This paper is an attempt to clarify and present the many definitions of benchmarking. It also attempts to explain the basic steps of benchmarking, to show how this tool can be applied by local authorities as well as to discuss its potential benefits and limitations providing a series of examples...
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Innovationsverhalten in Familienunternehmen
Hülsbeck, Marcel; Lehmann, Erik E.; Weiß, Dominik; … - 2011
Familienunternehmen gelten in der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung als besonders innovativ und als Hidden Champions der deutschen Wirtschaft. In jüngster Zeit widmen sich Forscher vermehrt der Überprüfung dieser These und kommen zu diametral unterschiedlichen Ergebnissen. Einerseits wird...
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Innovationsverhalten in Familienunternehmen
Hülsbeck, Marcel; Lehmann, Erik E.; Weiß, Dominik; … - Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität … - 2011
Familienunternehmen gelten in der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung als besonders innovativ und als Hidden Champions der deutschen Wirtschaft. In jüngster Zeit widmen sich Forscher vermehrt der Überprüfung dieser These und kommen zu diametral unterschiedlichen Ergebnissen. Einerseits wird...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010984777
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Considerations on the intellectual potential creativity
Certan, Simion; Certan, Ion - 2013
The functionality of the new economic system of Republic of Moldavia, based on market relations and opened to world, frequently marked by dynamism, often by uncertainty and risk, sometimes even hostility, depends, crucially, on the innovation activity. Innovation activity, formation of...
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Investigating the effects of ICT on innovation and performance of European hospitals: An exploratory study
Arvanitis, Spyros; Loukis, Euripidis N. - 2014
innovation and performance. In this paper is presented an empirical study in this direction, based on data for 743 hospitals from … for the three different dimensions of (ICT-enabled) hospital performance that are taken into consideration in this study … 'soft' ICT investment), as right-hand variables, while the performance equations also included the two innovation measures …
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Sustainable development orientation (SDO) practice and its impact on innovation performance
Terziovski, Milé; Guerrero, Jose-Luis - In: Journal of Contemporary Economic and Business Issues 1 (2014) 1, pp. 19-30
this paper is to test the relationship between SDO practice and innovation performance of a large number of Australian …, which reveals a significant and positive relationship between SDO and innovation performance. The implications of the … opportunity to improve innovation performance. …
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ICT and occupation-based measures of organisational change: Firm and employee outcomes
Böckerman, Petri; Kauhanen, Antti; Maliranta, Mika - 2012
To examine the productivity, employment and wage effects of ICT, we apply novel occupation based measures of organisational change within firms. With these measures, we directly address the complementarities between ICT and organisational changes. Our results support the view that organisational...
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Market orientation and performance of small and medium enterprises in Ghana: The mediating role of innovation
Bamfo, Bylon Abeeku; Kraa, Jerry Jay - In: Cogent Business & Management 6 (2019), pp. 1-16
The study assessed the impact of market orientation on performance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs); the … variable of customer orientation positively and significantly predict performance; while competitor orientation positively … predicts performance; however, not significant. Inter-functional orientation inversely and non-significantly impacts on …
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Market Orientation, Innovation and Entrepreneurship: An Empirical Examination of the Illinois Beef Industry
Micheels, Eric T.; Gow, Hamish R. - 2008
This paper explores the importance of a producer’s market orientation on their subjective performance within … firms are highly innovative and achieve superior performance. These findings are consistent with previous research on the … market orientation-performance relationship in heterogeneous product markets. The cost focus of a firm was also found to have …
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Product market regulation and macroeconomic performance: a review of cross country evidence
Schiantarelli, Fabio - 2005
country data to study the effect of product market regulation and reform on a country's macroeconomic performance. After a …
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