This paper examines the assumption that the injection of market discipline and private sector management practices will result in the transformation of public services. The present UK government looks for an opportunity to achieve synergy between the public and private sectors to improve the...

Leadership is widely acknowledged as the key driver of innovation and the achievement of overall organisational performance. In doing so, it draws on both process technologies and the use of management techniques. This paper examines the relationship between leadership, the operating...

Many managing directors focus on short-term performance financial related results on the basis that survival can lead to growth and enhanced performance in the longer-term. In addition, managing directors seem to think that financial returns, short-term and long-term performance can be achieved...

In this paper we draw on the theory of dynamic capabilities to examine development of the only surviving family-owned Liverpool shipping company. The Bibby Line was founded in 1807 to take advantage of the growing sea-trade based in Liverpool. The company remained in shipping until the...

Studies on the three types of process improvement programmes (Continuous Improvement, Reengineering and Benchmarking) have appeared many times in the literature. These studies suggest that certain organizational variables act as enablers and their presence or absence can significantly influence...

A new command has been developed implementing a previously validated tool for describing bronchiolitis severity. Bronchiolitis is one of the most common causes of hospital admission for infants and it is widely studied. This command classifies predicted severity of illness using an ordinal...

We compute aggregate productivity of three categories of regions, classified by the level of urbanization and density of economic activity in the Netherlands, from firm-specific total factor productivity (TFP) measures. TFP measures are estimated by a semi-parametric algorithm, within 2-digit...

In this paper, we have highlighted the potential implications of a move in the U.S. to T+1 on European financial institutions. We explain that while many European institutions feel that they are sheltered from this move, those that undertake trading activities in the U.S. will find that they...

The focus of the paper is on evaluating the productivity gap between rural and urban locations in the UK using micro data. We build a structural model of the unobservable productivity emphasising the link between productivity and spatial density of economic activity and adapt the semi-parametric...

Knowledge is recognised as an important source of competitive advantage and hence there has been increasing academic and practitioner interest in understanding and isolating the factors that contribute to effective knowledge transfer between supply chain actors. The literature identifies power...