Infrastructural projects based on public-private partnership (PPP) schemes usually struggle with large amounts of resources. Given such projects' relatively long lifetime, it is expected to encounter a wide range of risks when executing them. This implies that increasing productivity based on...

This study explores the impact of adopting the quality management system according to the International Standardization for Organizations (ISO) standards called ISO 9001 on firms' working capital management efficiency (WCME). This study analyzes Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in the...

Hospital digitalization is to reduce costs, increase efficiency and productivity, and to improve quality of care. However, the literature lacks clarity on the meaning of "hospital digitalization," how to measure it, and what quality it might affect. We use data from the DigitalRadar project from...

This paper estimates the costs of ‘de-risking’ scenarios between China and OECD members at the aggregate and sectoral levels. Aggregate large-scale de-risking – reshoring by increasing reliance on domestic production and friend-shoring by reducing imports from specific foreign countries...