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Controlling von Projektbudgets mit Earned Value Analysen
Kesten, Ralf - 2004
Controller bieten dem Management interne Beratung und Unterstützung aus dem Blickwinkel finanzieller Handlungsmotive an (vgl. Kesten 2001, S.30 ff.). Dies trifft auch bei der Planung, Abwicklung und Kontrolle von Projekten zu. Der Beratungsfokus liegt dabei insbesondere auf Fragen zur...
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Employee participation in organizational change: Investigating the effects of proactive vs. reactive implementation of downsizing in Swedish hospitals
Sverke, Magnus; Hellgren, Johnny; Näswall, Katharina; … - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 22 (2008) 2, pp. 111-129
Whereas employee participation is generally conceived to facilitate implementation of organizational change, only limited research has investigated whether it may reduce the negative effects of downsizing. The present study compares two Swedish hospitals that implemented downsizing in different...
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Indirect Welfare Effects of Price Changes and Cost-Benefit Analysis
Rouwendal, Jan - 2002
The effects of a policy measure often reach the consumer only after one or more intermediatesteps, for instance because the measure lowers the cost of an input for an industry producinga consumer good. This paper is concerned with the question how to measure such indirect effectscorrectly under...
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Three decades of rural development projects in Asia, Latin America and Africa: Learning from successes and failures
Zoomers, Annelies - 2006
This article aims to contribute to the discussion about how to make development interventions more effective by analyzing the factors contributing to the success or failure of rural development projects. We made an aggregate level analysis of 46 projects in the field of agricultural research...
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A double moral hazard model of organization design
Berkovitch, Elazar; Israel, Ronen; Spiegel, Yossi - 2007
We develop a theory of organization design in which the firm's structure is chosen to mitigate moral hazard problems in the selection and the implementation of projects. For a given set of projects, the 'divisional structure' which gives each agent the full responsibility over a subset of...
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The Economic Opportunity Cost of Capital for Canada - An Empirical Update
Jenkins, Glenn; Kuo, Chun-Yan - 2007
undertake. The size of the economic rate of discount has been a policy issue in Canada for many years. The debate has been … reexamine and update the empirical estimation of what is the appropriate economic discount rate for Canada. The results suggest … conclude that for Canada an 8 percent real rate is an appropriate discount rate to use when calculating the economic net …
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The in-hospital mortality rates of slaves and freemen: evidence from Touro infirmary, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1855 - 1860
Pritchett, Jonathan; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2008
Using a rich sample of admission records from New Orleans Touro Infirmary, we examine the in-hospital mortality risk of … likely to die in the hospital than the whites. We analyze the determinants of in-hospital mortality at Touro using Oaxaca … based on the selective hospital admission of slaves. …
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Handlungsempfehlungen für die planerische Steuerung der Krankenhausversorgung in Nordwestdeutschland
Baumgart, Sabine; Köckler, Heike; Löb, Stephan; … - 2023
Hinblick auf ein leistungsfähiges und effektives Standortsystem der Krankenhaus- und Gesundheitsversorgung sind infrage …Current development trends in the restructuring of the hospital landscape, in particular the mergers of smaller … equal living conditions, and an efficient and effective system of hospital and health care locations. This requires spatial …
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Projections of national demand and bed capacity requirements for public acute hospitals in Ireland, 2023-2040: Based on the Hippocrates model
Brick, Aoife; Kakoulidou, Theano; Humes, Harry - 2025
Historic underinvestment, coupled with a growing and ageing population, has led to capacity constraints in public acute hospitals in Ireland. This is evidenced by ageing infrastructure, large waiting lists and long waiting times for elective treatment, as well as pressure on unscheduled care...
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