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, who are then used as a staff resource. The main factor contributing to the development of WPK is communication, especially …
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hypotheses that examine first, how a firm’s choice of contract—whether fixed price, time & materials, or performance …-based—is shaped by its partnering strategy; and second, how this choice subsequently affects the levels of partner integration and … partner performance observed in a project. Our results indicate that the choice of contract is a function of a firm …
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, companies first integrated their information systems to speed up transactions such as ordering and billing. Later collaboration … expected substantial benefits from collaboration. However, one could also argue that the recent popularity of the concepts … from professional organizations as well as academia indicate that the trend towards interorganizational collaboration is …
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integrated care for young people. Methods: Two years after its establishment, an evaluation of the headspace Barwon collaboration … and a review of the health-care and management literature on agency collaboration were conducted. The principal findings …
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optimality of a bank's risk-reward trade-off. Conventional accounting-based performance measures such as return on assets and … return on equity do not incorporate the risk effects as part of the performance assessment. Risk-adjusted performance …-adjusted performance measurement process. Matched-Term Funds Transfer Pricing system isolates the business units from the effects of …
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.The absence of risk control and risk management can be destructive towards overallbusiness performance. Management skills are …, performance andsustainability are inseparable assets of any organisation. IT governance perceived byorganisations as important … management willlead management towards better competitive positions as well as increasing theoverall organisational performance …
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satisfaction bystrongly influencing the performance of service quality although causality cannot beassumed. It is recommended that … service providers including contractors andconsultants devote more efforts to improve their performance on the attributes …
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Peter Drucker lectures about the knowledge worker. During his talk, he discusses: supply as the center of today’s corporation, the change in structure and character of the workforce, the main function of a job, work as portable and specialized, the importance of making oneself understood and...
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Despite the pervasiveness of Six Sigma program implementations, there is increasing concern about implementation failures. One reason many Six Sigma programs fail is because an implementation model on how to effectively guide the implementation of these programs is lacking. Using a successful...
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Material resources affect the levels of mortality. In cross-sectional relationships income has been found to be positively associated with survival, both within and between countries. Preston (1975, 1976), in particular, using cross-national data for three separate decades of the 20th century,...
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