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Established in 1988, the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence recognises organisations in the USA, Mexico and Canada …
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effect). This study has practical implications for regulators, corporations and investors, both in the USA and abroad. …
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This paper presents an empirical study based on a survey of 399 small and medium size companies in Lithuania. Applying bivariate and ordered probit estimators, we investigate why some business owners intend to expand their firms, while others do not. Our main findings provide evidence that the...
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Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are widely recognized as an importantpart of the worldwide economy, acting both as the backbone of local economiesand as consumers of natural resources. In light of this, since the 1990’s,research to investigate how to make them more sustainable through the...
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como SME SF, por sus siglas en inglés— permite a los bancos reducir los requerimientos regulatorios de capital por dar … forma de nuevos préstamos. El presente trabajo muestra que el SME SF contribuyó a aliviar las restricciones de crédito de … las empresas medianas que eran elegibles para la aplicación del SME SF, pero no así de las pequeñas y microempresas. Estos …
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PURPOSE OF STUDY: This article presents acuity and dosage as two concepts that describe how the business case for case management (CM) can be made. Dosage and acuity concepts are explained as client need-severity, CM intervention-intensity, and CM activity-dose by amount, duration, extent, and...
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This paper presents an ideal legislative model for South Korea to realize gender equality in reconciling work and childcare. The comparative study on the U.S. and German system is the basis for the legislative model. This paper selects the U.S. and German systems as a comparison group because...
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1. Introduction Power industry deregulation and electricity market restructuring, which began in Chile in the 1980s and then spread to Norway, New Zealand and the UK, were introduced in the United States with the passage of the Energy Policy Act (EPA) of 1992 (Jameson, 1997). The EPA and...
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