Agricultural economists have generally concluded that macroeconomic and tax policy matters regarding the financial wellbeing of U.S. farm operations. Farm operations react more quickly and with greater response to both anticipated and unanticipated macroeconomic policy changes than do the...

Based on a 143-month longitudinal study of an academic medical center, this paper examines operations management practices of continuous improvement, workflow balancing, benchmarking, and process reengineering within a hospital's perioperative operations. Specifically, this paper highlights...

This study examines the development and use of balanced scorecard metrics as key performance indicators within each stage of the perioperative process to enable business process management across the entire process to gauge performance and target improvement opportunities. The identification of...

In 1999 a public policy change, significantly based on insights from a major Technology Foresight exercise (Forfás, 1999), resulted in major investment in S&T in Ireland. This investment focused on infrastructure and skills needs of the higher education sector, and was intended to develop...

Impact assessment of individual research activities have existed in the 15 international research centres of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) for many years. In 1995, however, the members of the CGIAR decided to give much stronger emphasis to impact...

Agricultural economists have generally concluded that macroeconomic and tax policy matters regarding the financial wellbeing of U.S. farm operations. Farm operations react more quickly and with greater response to both anticipated and unanticipated macroeconomic policy changes than do the...

Summary Assessing the impact of policy-oriented research is fraught with methodological difficulties ranging from attributing influence on policy change to constructing an appropriate counterfactual. The six case studies in this special section address these challenges in the context of...