Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 148
Cover Image
Investigating the link between medical urgency and hospital efficiency – Insights from the German hospital market
Schneider, Annika Maren; Oppel, Eva-Maria; Schreyögg, Jonas - In: Health Care Management Science 23 (2020) 4, pp. 649-660
, i.e. urgent medical cases. The link between medical urgency and hospitals’ efficiency, however, has been neglected in … the literature to date. This study therefore aims to investigate the relationship between hospitals’ urgency … 2015, 2016, and 2017. We calculate an average urgency score for each hospital based on all cases treated in that hospital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014503424
Cover Image
The ‘need for speed’: Towards circular disruption—What it is, how to make it happen and how to know it's happening
Blomsma, Fenna; Bauwens, Thomas; Weissbrod, Ilka; … - In: Business Strategy and the Environment 32 (2022) 3, pp. 1010-1031
The environmental, social and economic limits and shortcomings of the current linear model of production and consumption highlight the necessity of a rapid transition towards a sustainable paradigm. The concept of a circular economy has recently gained traction among scholars, policy‐makers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014503475
Cover Image
Towards a sense of urgency for innovation realization: A case study on complacency asymmetries in interorganizational relations
Mitcheltree, Christina Marie - In: Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 12 (2023) 1, pp. 1-37
This paper seeks to explore the concept of complacency as a barrier to the sense of urgency within product innovation … actors, as well as the varying reasons (drivers) to why urgency gaps may occur among actors. The urgency gaps were found to … impact a sense of urgency and thus innovation speed negatively. The asymmetries are presented from the drivers: role …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014519608
Cover Image
Does environmental disclosure relate to environmental performance? Reconciling legitimacy theory and voluntary disclosure theory
Mahmood, Zeeshan; Ahmad, Zubair; Ali, Waris; Ejaz, Aneela - In: Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS) 11 (2017) 3, pp. 1134-1152
This paper seeks to understand the relationship between corporate environmental disclosure and corporate environmental performance in a Pakistani context. Also, this paper aims to understand whether patterns of environmental disclosure varies between the different categories (good, bad and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011938590
Cover Image
Socially responsible investment practices and implementation approaches: A case study of listed extractive firms in Ghana
Cudjoe, Mawuena Akosua; Latiff, Ahmed Razman Abdul; … - In: Cogent Business & Management 10 (2023) 2, pp. 1-21
We explore the socially responsible investment practices and implementation approaches of some extractive listed firms through the lens of institutional theory. Using an interpretive case study approach with data collected from interviews, observations, and archival documents, over 10 months, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014527374
Cover Image
Industry 4.0 and environmental accounting: a new revolution?
Burritt, Roger; Christ, Katherine - In: Asian Journal of Sustainability and Social … 1 (2016) 1, pp. 23-38
facilitate more accurate, high quality, real time environmental management accounting and external environmental reporting in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012217612
Cover Image
Economic Accounting of Ethiopian Forests: A Natural Capital Approach
Narita, Daiju; Lemenih, Mulugeta; Shimoda, Yukimi; … - In: Forest Policy and Economics 97 (2018), pp. 189-200
Ethiopia has experienced a long-term deforestation with broad implications for human life and economic activities, but conventional frameworks of economic accounting are not able to assess the country's economic and environmental sustainability in the faceof such deforestation problem. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012489265
Cover Image
Aplicación de una metodología difusa a la negociación de la reforma laboral
Lozano Gutiérrez, Carmen; Fuentes Martín, Federico - In: Revista de Métodos Cuantitativos para la Economía y … 16 (2013), pp. 29-46
In this paper it is carried out a methodology based on Fuzzy Logic tech- niques for searching a solution which has been reached by consensus. This solution is related to labour reform and considers Trade Unions, Employers' Associations, and Government opinions. The proposed model belongs to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307202
Cover Image
Aplicación de las técnicas multivariantes al sector bancario español: El caso de las entidades afectadas por la restructuración (2008-2009)
Somoza López, Antonio - In: Revista de Métodos Cuantitativos para la Economía y … 19 (2015), pp. 66-100
This study aims to analyze the Spanish financial entities that were bailout by the European Union with the main objective to discern the different char- acteristics among them and find out the reasons why in some cases some of them were merged, in other were taken over and in the most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307222
Cover Image
Unemployment benefits and financial leverage in an agent based macroeconomic model
Ricetti, Luca; Russo, Alberto; Gallegati, Mauro - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 7 (2013) 2013-42, pp. 1-44
This paper is aimed at investigating the effects of government intervention through unemployment benefits on macroeconomic dynamics in an agent based decentralized matching framework. The major result is that the presence of such a public intervention in the economy stabilizes the aggregate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330079