This article analyzes hospital privatization by comparing costs and quality between different ownership forms. We put … centers. We argue that the trade-off between costs and quality could be minimized by designing financing contracts with fixed … about Spanish hospitals, we have found that private hospitals provide services at a lower cost at expenses of lower quality …

The focus of competitive “battle” shifted from the price towards non-price instruments, above all, towards quality that … conditions, management of a company, which, according to the established and certified system of total quality, strives towards … achieving of a better market position, faces the problem of quality cost measurement and determination. Management, above all …

disturbing factor in the progress of bussines activities, providing quality at the required standards is a sine qua non … order to achieve their strategic goals. For some companies, the cost of quality becomes a variable that must be downsized in … order to obtain a more considerable profit. For other companies instead, quality is the key which makes the difference. So …

results show that public subsidies enable the e-learning organization to provide quality-based and pricing strategies that … impact on the global level of quality which is provided by both providers. Nevertheless, our welfare analysis underlines …

results show that public subsidies enable the e-learning organization to provide quality-based and pricing strategies that … impact on the global level of quality which is provided by both providers. Nevertheless, our welfare analysis underlines …

higher expected warranty servicing costs. Warranty costs are reduced by improvements in product reliability. Learning effects …

their costs aimed towards improvement of quality. …

Objective: The purpose is to explore whether better structure and process management provide better outcome quality for … seven vascular departments are pooled we estimate fixed effect logit models for three outcome quality measures; 30 day … mortality, death after discharge and wound complications. First, we estimate the association between three process quality …

of boarding houses existing in our countryhave not been reported by the authorities in this sector.The quality costs … represent an important quality valorizing instrument, a potential sourcefor maximizing the profit of any economic unit. They are … used by more and more entitiesas a tool for the optimization of processes and activities which are relevant to quality …