Proceedings of the Ottawa Conference, November 2001. How can we measure the performance of different health systems, and how can we use such information to support on-going health systems improvement? Those are the central questions addressed in this volume. Health policy makers have a growing...

Purpose - This paper considers zakat (Islamic tax) as an alternative indicator to measure the performance of Islamic banks (IBs). It aims to examine whether zakat ratios can be used as Islamic performance (ISPER) indicators for IBs besides the conventional performance (COPER) indicators....

Purpose - This paper aims to examine the performance of Islamic and conventional stocks listed at the Pakistan Stock Exchange by using both parametric and non-parametric approaches. The motivation is to do risk-return analysis of Islamic stock prices and conventional stock prices....

Der Leser erfährt, wie ein Betriebliches Gesundheitsmanagement (BGM) die Unternehmensperformance beeinflussen kann. Es existieren zahlreiche Studien zum Zusammenhang von BGM und Performancegrößen, mit teilweise widersprüchlichen Ergebnissen. Deshalb wurde eine Metaanalyse durchgeführt, um...

1. The Review of Main Concepts in the Book -- 2. The Framework of the Theoretical Research -- 3. Numerical Application in the Sample Organization -- 4. The Advantages and Achievements of the Book’s Model -- 5. The Perspective of Future Horizon for the Advanced Studies.