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Introducing Machine Monitoring —Success and Failure
Moran, P.J. - In: Industrial Management & Data Systems 84 (1984) 5/6, pp. 29-30
manufacturing efficiency but problems with machine operators may ensue, since the system can also serve to monitor the productivity …
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Total Resource Management in the Third World
Kinder, Clive R. - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 1 (1988) 1, pp. 27-41
and efficiency. The causes of poor performance are described and an implementation plan, using action learning techniques …
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The Concept of Value for Money
Glendinning, R. - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 1 (1988) 1, pp. 42-50
), efficiency (output maximisation) and effectiveness (full attainment of the intended results). But what values are realised by the …
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Insider trading in financial markets: legality, ethics, efficiency
O’Hara, Phillip Anthony - In: International Journal of Social Economics 28 (2001) 10/11/12, pp. 1046-1063
Scrutinises legal, ethical and efficiency standards for and against insider trading. The main arguments supporting … insider trading are that it promotes economic efficiency and enterprise. The primary argument against insider trading is that …
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Persuasion without numbers?
Froud, Julie; Haslam, Colin; Johal, Sukhdev; Shaoul, Jean; … - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 11 (1998) 1, pp. 99-125
Using the example of capital charging in UK hospitals, this paper shows how new public policy initiatives are justified through forms of persuasion without numbers and can be challenged with empirics. A reading of official and academic texts shows how the official problem definition focuses on...
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Executive coercion and state audit: A processual analysis of the responses of the Australian audit office to the dilemmas of efficiency auditing1978‐84
Funnell, Warwick - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 11 (1998) 4, pp. 436-458
The introduction of efficiency auditing in Australian Commonwealth state audit created a level of stress and threat for … Efficiency Audit Division (1978‐84) which had been established within the Australian Audit Office to develop efficiency auditing … methods and to carry out efficiency audits. It documents for the first time a level of executive intrusion in state audit …
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Efficiency differences of U.S. agricultural banks
Choi, Onelack; Stefanou, Spiro E.; Stokes, Jeffrey R. - In: Agricultural Finance Review 67 (2007) 1, pp. 55-73
measure, (b) older agricultural banks tend to be more efficient, (c) regulation may deteriorate efficiency levels, (d) bigger …A balanced panel data set covering 519 U.S. agricultural banks is constructed for the period 1996S2005. Cost efficiency … various bank specific characteristics to explain the cost efficiency differences of agricultural banks. The results indicate …
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The Governance of Co‐operatives under Competitive Conditions: Issues, Processes and Culture
Davis, Peter - In: Corporate Governance: The international journal of … 1 (2001) 4, pp. 28-39
Reviews the contemporary debate on governance within the co‐operative sector and makes an analysis of the traditional approach taken by the movement. Critiques the view that democratic structures are an effective mechanism for governance in a co‐operative. Process and structure rather than...
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Increasing the cost efficiency of e‐fulfilment using shared reception boxes
Punakivi, Mikko; Tanskanen, Kari - In: International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management 30 (2002) 10, pp. 498-507
the operational efficiency of home deliveries. Hitherto, the research has considered home delivery concepts using attended …
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Ethics and efficiency in organizations
Hausken, Kjell - In: International Journal of Social Economics 23 (1996) 9, pp. 15-40
Lays out a framework for analysing ethics in organizations. Relying on methodological individualism, introduces five building blocks for the framework: self‐interest, individual rationality, sequential rationality, incentive compatibility, and reputation. Uncritical use of the self‐interest...
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