Research examining the within-person relationship among self-efficacy, resource allocation, and performance has been decidedly mixed, with positive, null, and even negative relationships being observed. In the present research, we propose that relationship of within-person changes in...

As a resource-allocation method, free competition is generally considered more efficient and fairer than binding assignment, yet individuals’ hedonic experiences in these different resource-allocation conditions are largely ignored. Using a minimalistic experimental simulation procedure, we...

The efficient and effective management of nursing personnel is of critical importance in a hospital's environment comprising a vast share of the operational costs. The adopted nurse workforce practices and policies highly affect the nurses' working conditions and the provided quality of care....

We consider single-machine scheduling problem in which the processing time of a job is a function of its position in a sequence, its starting time, and its resource allocation. The objective is to find the optimal sequence of jobs and the optimal resource allocation separately. We concentrate on...

The education sector in Italy is mainly public and highly centralized concerning both financial and regulatory aspects. However, there are significant disparities in school spending and students’ performance across regions. This heterogeneity is also relevant in relation to the ongoing fiscal...

The effects of single-sex education are hotly contested, both in academic and policy circles. Despite this heated debate, there exists little credible empirical evidence of the effect of a U.S. public school's decision to offer single-sex classrooms on the educational outcomes of students. This...

In this paper a basic resource allocation problem with uncertain costs is discussed. The problem consists in choosing exactly p items out of n available to minimize the total cost. The uncertain item costs are specified as a discrete scenario set and the minmax criterion is used to choose a...

This study tests the Balassa-Samuelson (BS) hypothesis, which explains the real exchange rate with relative productivity differences, for ten OECD countries between 1975 and 2007 by using the Johansen cointegration approach. The study further tests the effect of the terms of trade variable by...

The education system in Italy is mainly public and highly centralised concerning both financial and regulatory aspects. However, there are significant disparities in school spending and students' performance across regions. The aim of the paper is to provide a first attempt for the Italian case...

Effective production planning of manufacturing networks requires careful consideration of several factors, including capacity, production, yields, and resource failure costs. This is particularly critical in highly variable environments where multiple resource types are available during the...