Established in 1988, the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence recognises organisations in the USA, Mexico and Canada …

effect). This study has practical implications for regulators, corporations and investors, both in the USA and abroad. …

The coordination plays central role in the economics. The conventional economic theory looks at the market and … enterprise (or hierarchy) as two different, separated manner of coordination of economic goods and services. However the modern … several types of hybrid forms) of coordination (or governance structure) necessarily live together in the current economic …

coordination. Conducting joint analysis of these theories set up new structures of minimized governing of the costs of transactions … the SAGs, is the economic theory of the costs of transactions (ECT). The understanding of production systems requires a … order to minimize the costs of transactions. Another theory is of great importance to economic theory of the convention …

This paper addresses the coordination and innovation issues needed for promotingvalue added at the rural and regional … inaddition to the time conflict, innovation and new information may make it moredifficult to maintain coordination networks. …

people’s control choices under laissez-faire affect patterns of invasion spread and the total costs and damages imposed by an … with marginal control costs and with the size of the invasion when it is discovered. As expected, private control decisions … cooperation is needed to control invasions whose costs and damages otherwise lead to the largest externalities. This novel finding …

of the firm. In such a theory, the firm exists as the solution to a coordination problem in a world of change and … examines the changing nature of the entrepreneurial coordination problem over the life-cycle. In this formulation, "the … no such thing as a non-entrepreneurial firm, firms that must solve coordination problems in a world of novelty and …

average construction costs for two building types in two groups of EU countries, one using the euro, the other using their … individual national currencies, were gathered. These costs were converted to euros where necessary using two kinds of purchasing … power parities, adjusted for inflation and brought to a common base date. The dispersion of these costs was analysed using …