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Early-Stage Entrepreneurial Activity : An Explanatory Model for Cross-Country Comparisons

Chepurenko, Alexander Yulievich - 2012

The paper argues that when developing an explanatory model of the early-stage entrepreneurial activity level (measured by total index of early entrepreneurial activity - TEA) one should consider the ‘path dependency' of the ‘institutional matrix' of different societies. Otherwise one could...

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Accounting for Unrepresentative Products and Urban-Rural Price Differences in International Comparisons of Real Income : An Application to the Asia-Pacific Region

Hill, Robert J. - 2013

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Demand, selection and patient outcomes in German acute care hospitals

Schwierz, Christoph; Augurzky, Boris; Focke, Axel; … - 2008

affect patient outcomes. -- Hospital staffing ; inpatient outcomes …

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Patient cost-sharing and hospitalization offsets in the elderly

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The relationship between quality and hospital case volume : an empirical examination with German data

Hentschker, Corinna; Mennicken, Roman - 2012

This paper examines the effects of hospital case volume on quality of care on the example of intact abdominal aortic …. Quality is measured with a binary variable which indicates whether the patient has died in hospital. The results show that …. -- Volume ; hospital quality ; mortality …

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Stress on the ward : an empirical study of the nonlinear relationship between organizational workload and service quality

Kuntz, Ludwig; Mennicken, Roman; Scholtes, Stefan - 2011

context of hospital survival rates. We further discuss the implications for hospital capacity planning and the wider … implications for service operations management. -- Service quality ; service outcomes ; organizational workload ; hospital capacity …