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THE IMPORTANCE OF MANAGEMENT OF THE HUMAN RESOURCE CAPACITY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS

SHQAU, GJERGJI; SHAHINI, BESA - In: Journal of Academic Research in Economics 3 (2011) 2 (July), pp. 196-208

Human resources represent one of the most important factors for the achievement of a high organizational and institutional performance. The main objective of this study is to estimate the organizational performance and to see how it matches with characteristics of job and employee skills, and...

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On the Measurement of Trade Costs: Direct vs. Indirect Approaches to Quantifying Standards and Technical Regulations

Chen, Natalie; Novy, Dennis - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

In this article, we review the literature on the measurement of trade costs in international trade with a special …

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Measuring the return on household enterprise: What matters most for whom?

Samphantharak, Krislert; Townsend, Robert M. - In: Journal of Development Economics 98 (2012) 1, pp. 58-70

developing economies. Yet the definition and measurement of household enterprise ROA remain inconsistent or unclear. We … illustrate potential measurement problems with examples from various surveys. We take advantage of a detailed household survey … and analyze what matters and for whom. The three issues that matter most for measurement of household enterprise ROA are …

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Using PDA consistency checks to increase the precision of profits and sales measurement in panels

Fafchamps, Marcel; McKenzie, David; Quinn, Simon; … - In: Journal of Development Economics 98 (2012) 1, pp. 51-57

Personalized Digital Assistants (PDAs) and other forms of hardware needed to collect survey data electronically have become more affordable and powerful in recent years, leading to their use in a number of surveys in developing countries. Simple use of these devices can offer the prospect of...

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Measurement of Women’s Empowerment in Rural Bangladesh

Mahmud, Simeen; Shah, Nirali M.; Becker, Stan - In: World Development 40 (2012) 3, pp. 610-619

Women’s empowerment is a dynamic process that has been quantified, measured, and described in a variety of ways. We measure empowerment in a sample of 3,500 rural women in 128 villages of Bangladesh with five indicators. A conceptual framework is presented, together with descriptive data on...

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Investigating the relationships between innovation and performance in services: An intellectual capital perspective

Mention, Anne-Laure - In: Reflets et perspectives de la vie économique LI (2012) 3, pp. 97-104

: O31, O32, L80, M21

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From bodies to lives, complainers to consumers: Measuring menstrual excess

Hasson, Katie Ann - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 10, pp. 1729-1736

menorrhagia, or excessive bleeding, from normal menstruation. I focus specifically on measurement as a key process in diagnosing … menstrual pathology, arguing that measurement practices construct women's bodies as appropriate objects of medical attention in …

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Looking beneath and in-between the hidden surfaces: a critical review of defining, measuring and contextualizing mental health service disparities in the child welfare system

Garcia, Antonio R.; Palinkas, Lawrence A.; Snowden, Lonnie - In: Children and Youth Services Review 35 (2013) 10, pp. 1727-1733

Efforts to understand and respond to racial and ethnic disparities in referrals to and use of mental health services among children involved in the child welfare system are constrained by the lack of consistency in defining and measuring disparities and the lack of clarity as to what causal...

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Consumer Procrastination and Purchase Delay

Darpy, Denis - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2000

Recent research on purchase delay have developed numerous situational and individual causes. This paper proposes Consumer Procrastination to conceptualize the individual factor which influence people to chronically delay their purchases. Consumer Procrastination is measured with a new scale. An...

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Interactive budgetary control: proposing a model and a measurement instrument

Sponem, Samuel - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2004

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