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Citizen coproduction and efficient public good provision: Theory and evidence from local public libraries
De Witte, Kristof; Geys, Benny - In: European Journal of Operational Research 224 (2013) 3, pp. 592-602
In both public administration and economics, efficiency is brought forward as an important criterion for evaluating administrative actions. Clearly, its value as an assessment principle depends on our ability to adequately measure efficiency. This article argues that citizen’s coproduction in...
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Transshipment and rebalancing policies for library books
Van der Heide, G.; Roodbergen, K.J. - In: European Journal of Operational Research 228 (2013) 2, pp. 447-456
Library customers can soon order books online and specify a location to collect them from. Libraries exchange books … the requests and rebalancing to redistribute books between libraries. This research determines optimal decisions for … transshipments and rebalancing, so that logistic costs in the library system are minimized. In current practice, libraries typically …
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