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Synthetic Program Specifications for Performance Evaluation
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The Process of Areawide Health Services Planning: A Normative Definition
A recent study of areawide health planning organization suggests that the widely publicized disillusionment with the planning concept is due in large part to the absence of a well-defined and proven planning process. With the assistance of health…
A Variable Nurse Staffing Model
When the staffing load on several separate work centers is variable but unpredictable i n advance, a variable staffing policy may be used as a means of increasing manpower efficiency. A variable staffing policy is one which provides for staffing…
Carrots or Sticks? Improving Social and Environmental Compliance at Suppliers Through Penalties and Incentives
Forthcoming in Production and Operations Management.
This paper explores the relationship between supplier penalties and incentives and performance.
Does Management Matter? Evidence from India
A long-standing question in social science is to what extent differences in management cause differences in firm performance. To investigate this we ran a management field experiment on large Indian textile firms. We provided free consulting on…