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This paper sets out to extend and deepen the understanding the ways toward economic sustainability through efficient and effective growth operations strategies, quality management and operational excellence in banking. In this study we define new quality management practices based on developed...
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The aim of this paper is to carry out a systematic literature review about the relationships between quality management, innovation, and performance. For that end, a search was carried out in the Web of Science and Scopus databases, and 172 articles were selected. Results show that there is a...
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performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the construction sector. Our study utilised a questionnaire …-based survey design to gather online data using a convenience sampling method. To test the hypotheses, data obtained from 346 SMEs …
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in a comparative way. Benchmarking a similar country can lead towards effective policy formulation considering that the … the help of benchmarking technique, the particular country can choose another efficient country to follow. This is also …
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Background: E-business and Information Technology (IT) are critical components in the improvement of logistics … functions. As logistics contributes to the entire strategic planning of a firm, e-business and IT applications support the … were collected and analyzed using Regression Analysis by 73 IT managers for Greek Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in …
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From the international marketing point of view, it is important to assess the attractiveness of the target country that can be interesting to foreign investors. It is worth analyzing all the possible opportunities and threats that may arise in each geographic market. It is also needed to assess...
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This article develops eleven criteria focusing on the relative importance and strength of different, especially socio-economic drivers of and pressures on biodiversity. These refer to the syndrome concept designed to assess global environmental risks and the DPSIR framework developed to guide...
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Tourism comprises a self- contained phenomenon synonymous to consumption and spare time and its growth, due to the development of technology and the improvement of the standards of living, has taken global dimensions. As a result tourism has developed to a pure industry, leading the economy and...
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This study examines whether the implementation of a quality management system (QMS) and the choice of a certain quality assurance scheme (QAS) were decided as responses by fruit and vegetable producers to market conditions, separating certification decisions into two components. A survey study...
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) (2002); India (2004); Japan (2008); Republic of Korea (2006); the Russian Federation (2004, 2007, and 2010); and Taipei … India and the PRC have high levels. The Russian Federation has a medium degree of inequality, sluggishly improving over time …. Rural/urban income gaps are evident across all evaluated countries, but they are particularly high in the PRC, India, and …
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