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Synthetic Program Specifications for Performance Evaluation

Henry C. Lucas, Jr.
1971

Abstract not available.

The Process of Areawide Health Services Planning: A Normative Definition

John R. Moore, Jr.
1971

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

John C. Hershey, William J. Abernathy, Nicholas Baloff
1971

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

Angharad Porteous, Sonali Rammohan, Hau L. Lee

Forthcoming in Production and Operations Management.

 

This paper explores the relationship between supplier penalties and incentives and performance.

Does Management Matter? Evidence from India

John Roberts (1945–2026), Nicholas A. Bloom, Benn Eifert, Aprajit Mahajan, David McKenzie

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…