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Productivity Analysis of German Electricity Distribution Utilities
Hirschhausen, Christian von; Kappeler, Andreas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004
issues in electricity sector benchmarking, such as the role of scale effects and optimal utility size, as well as new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963944
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International Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer: The CDM´s Reality in China
Aleluia, João; Leitão, João - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
economies. Taking as reference the Chinese context, a benchmarking approach is proposed to assess the performance of distinct …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005039964
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Coordinating policies for a "Europe of knowledge" - Emerging practices of the "Open Method of Coordination" in education and research
Gornitzka, Åse - ARENA - 2005
The European Union’s Open Method of Coordination (OMC) is a method that in principle assumes that coordination of policies can be achieved without the use of “hard law”. This paper addresses the question what the OMC represents as an instrument for European integration in the context of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040340
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An organisational approach to European integration - What organisations tells us about system transformation, committee governance and Commission decision making
Egeberg, Morten - ARENA - 2002
An organisational approach to European integration focuses on individual actors’ organisational context in order to account for their behaviour, interests and identities. Intergovernmentalists usually preclude any profound impact of EU institutions and organisations. Institutionalists (other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040424
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A new concept of deepening European integration? The European Research Area and the emerging role of policy coordination in a multi-level governance system
Kaiser, Robert; Prange, Heiko - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 6 (2002) 10
Within the discussion on European governance and constitutional reforms of the EU polity the so-called "open method of coordination" (OMC) has gained much attention as a procedure that occupies an intermediary place between intergovernmental cooperation and supranational legislation. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040558
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Theorising the New Modes of European Union Governance
Eberlein, Burkard; Kerwer, Dieter - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 6 (2002) 04
Recently, 'new modes of governance' based on voluntary performance standards, rather than compulsory regulation, have gained salience in European Union governance. Can these 'new modes of governance' offer a credible solution to the challenges faced by EU policy making? We argue that a critical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040567
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La Tecnica del Benchmarking Estrategico y su aplicacion a los Agronegocios
De Leon Contreras, Gerardo; Aguilar Valdes, Alfredo; … - In: Revista Mexicana de Agronegocios 24 (2009)
its competitiveness, we suggest benchmarking implementation in agribusiness together with “UALAE†methodology grounded …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005041328
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Improving building project performance: how buildability benchmarking can help
Lam, Patrick; Wong, Franky - In: Construction Management and Economics 27 (2009) 1, pp. 41-52
. After identifying available benchmarking tools, the relative correlations are investigated between different buildability … interviewed for verifying the practicality of buildability benchmarking. As an incentive to improve buildability, benchmarking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005482527
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Benchmarking electricity consumption
Stoy, Christian; Kytzia, Susanne - In: Construction Management and Economics 24 (2006) 10, pp. 1083-1089
perspective. Benchmarking electricity consumption in the usage phase is a tool for achieving this objective. This requires a … factors that drive these key indicators and how they do so. This alone makes it possible to satisfy the benchmarking principle …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005482617
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The European Union benchmarking experience. From euphoria to fatigue?
Zängle, Michael - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 8 (2004) 06
appropriate statistical techniques and indicators, the benchmarking system pro-vided by EUROSTAT seems to be sufficiently … feasibility. The European Union benchmark-ing exercise is embedded in the context of the Open Method(s) of Co-ordination (OMC …). This context makes the benchmarking approach part and parcel of an overarching philosophy, which relates the benchmarking …
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