Purpose This paper presents economic and economic-statistical designs of the adaptive exponentially weighted moving average (AEWMA) control chart for monitoring the process mean. It also aims to compare the effect of estimated process parameters on the economic performance of three charts, which...

The European Commission Initiative on Breast Cancer is proud to publish the Manual of the European Quality Assurance Scheme for Breast Cancer Services. This manual has been developed with the support of the Quality Assurance Scheme Development Group (QASDG), which includes professionals with a...

Poor information flows hamper coordination, potentially leading to suboptimal decisions in health care. We examine the effects of a nationwide policy of information integration on the quality of prescribing. We use the rollout of an electronic prescribing system in Finland and prescription-level...

To the best of our knowledge, most of the few methodological studies which analyze the impact of faked interviews on survey results are based on "artificial fakes" generated by project students in a "laboratory environment". In contrast, panel data provide a unique opportunity to identify data...

The research on integrated reporting (IR) grew exponentially during the last decade. The present meta-analysis was motivated by the need to systematize the results of previously published studies employing quantitative methodologies. Therefore, we fill a research gap by discovering significant...

The objective of the study is to identify the impact on sharing of quality, cost, and lead time on competitive advantage. Although previous studies have identified a range of elements affecting competitive advantage, further research is needed to understand the factors driving competitive...

Researchers have tested a wide array of theories and developed a broad set of explanatory variables for audit quality. However, little is known about which of these audit-related variables are the most predictive of audit failure (i.e., low-quality audits). We devote this study to provide...

We investigate empirically the determinants of the quality of governments in a large cross-section of countries. We assess government performance using measures of government intervention, public sector efficiency, public good provision, size of government, and political freedom. We find that...