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We investigate the link between hospital performance and managerial education by collecting a large database of … offering both medical education and business education have higher management quality, more MBA trained managers and lower … mortality rates. This is true compared to the distance to universities that offer only business or medical education (or neither …
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Education corruption displays ample evidence that warrants inefficiencies and absenteeism among teachers. Teachers are … of motivation to work and little commitment to the profession, and when there is lack of accountability in the education … sector. Because of the importance of education to society, international bodies emphasize the need for attracting, developing …
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SMEs in Nigeria and make recommendations. Compensation is a primary motivator for employees. People look for jobs that not … compensation methods may hold an enterprise back from adequately compensating its best employees. With about 17.3m SMEs in Nigeria …
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This study was designed to evaluate the problems of employee turnover on productivity among small business entities in Nigeria, and recommend remedial actions. Employee turnover is the separation of employees from employers and replacement with other employees. Productive manpower is a critical...
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The study was designed to evaluate the effect of executive compensation management on productivity among SMEs in … enterprise back from adequately compensating its best employees. With about 17.3m SMEs in Nigeria good compensation management …
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-credit among SMEs in Nigeria and make recommendations. Both the questionnaire and personal interview methods were used to generate … still very slow in lending to SMEs. They believe that SMEs are usually not properly organized and therefore consider lending … adequate collateral. These stringent loan processes frequently cut off many SMEs from having access to bank credit, and to …
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When will a monopolist have incentives to foreclose a complementary market by degrading compatibility/interoperability of his products with those of rivals? We develop a framework where leveraging extracts more rents from the monopoly market by 'restoring' second degree price discrimination. In...
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In this paper we discuss some of the most important economic issues raised in European Commission vs. Microsoft (2004) concerning the market for work group servers. In our view, the most important economic issues relate to (a) foreclosure incentives and (b) innovation effects of the proposed...
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This paper contains an empirical analysis demand for “work-group” (or low-end) servers. Servers are at the centre of many US and EU anti-trust debates, including the Hewlett-Packard/Compaq merger and investigations into the activities of Microsoft. One question in these policy decisions is...
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In this paper we investigate the evolution of quality adjusted prices for servers motivated by two facts. First, the productivity acceleration in the US economy since the mid 1990s is closely linked to spread of information technology of which networked computing is a large component. Second,...
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