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Overcoming traditional Performance Management in Public Healthcare Institutions: The need for a DPM Approach

Donabedian (1988) was the scientific father of the notion that Performance Measurement (PM) of hospital outputs leads to improved quality of healthcare services, setting the foundations of how hospital quality is still today defined, considered and measured using three different kinds of measures: structure, process and outcome measures. Nonetheless, a growing part of literature during the last two decades has started doubting those favourable outcomes of PM on hospital quality (De Vos, et al., 2009; Nolan & Berwick, 2006; Werner et al., 2008a, 2008b; Werner & Bradlow, 2006; Wright & Hershman, 2014) while other research shows that ineffective PM systems are not just useless but …

POLICY INNOVATION AND IMPLEMENTATION IN PUBLIC SECTOR: COMPLEXITIES, DYNAMICS AND UNCERTAINTIES

This research is expected to contribute to the knowledge base on how an effective impact assessment and adoption of innovations in the public sector could be facilitated. The need for trans-disciplinary assessment of the long-term potential impacts of innovation-driven policies may well be met with system dynamics as part of the dynamic performance management approach by way of modelling based simulation and analysis. Moreover, such analysis may contribute to learning and the accumulation of a knowledge repository that enables strategy developers, policy designers and decision makers to arrive at unexpected (often called counterintuitive) conclusions prior to policy implementation. Such ins…

La Déclaration de Performance Extra-Financière et son évaluation de matérialité : un modèle dynamique d’analyse. Le cas de la Banque Populaire Alsace…

2021

L’édito du rapport de développement durable : un signal prédictif d’inclusion d’une entreprise dans un indice de performance RSE ?

2019

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Asphalt mixtures improved with plastic additives: mix design and case study in an airport

La crescente domanda di prestazioni e le esigenze di salvaguardia dell’ecosistema spingono a sviluppare nuove tecnologie di lavorazione, a sperimentare l’impiego di nuovi materiali, a migliorare i metodi di progetto delle miscele. Il criterio seguito è quello di un impiego più razionale delle risorse e dell’utilizzo di tecniche a basso impatto ambientale. Per ragioni tecniche ed economiche stiamo assistendo al fenomeno di espansione nel mercato degli additivi, impiegati nella produzione di miscele bituminose per migliorarne le prestazioni e ridurre i costi. In generale, però riuscire a soddisfare tutti gli obiettivi con un unico prodotto è difficile, perché l’alta qualità richiede costi più…

Managerial Ability, Players’ Cultural Diversity, and Sporting and Economic Performance in English Soccer

2012

We use a large homemade database on professional soccer in England to estimate the relevance of managerial ability on performance and the managerial skills in keeping up cultural diversity. The team manager faces a set of very complex tasks. Not only he is the head coach of the soccer team, thus influencing sporting performance, but he can also have an impact on performance, by improving economic efficiency or by limiting the organization innovation in order to foster the creation of organizational routines. The sporting competitive advantage translates into economic and financial performance; therefore the manager is a dominant voice in the financial viability of the club, too. We also mea…

Sustainable tourist development in Italian holiday destinations

2008

This paper argues that tourism, will become a major activity in a modern welfare state, which will have serious consequences for environmental sustainability. This issue calls for an assessment of the pros and cons of the ecological efficiency of tourism. We propose an overall efficiency indicator that comprises both a sustainable tourism index and an economic efficiency index. Based on a data set for Italian provinces and using Activity Analysis, a quantitative assessment of the relative position of Italian tourist destination areas is made from the perspective of sustainable tourism. Copyright © 2008 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.

The Mechanics of Progress in Education: Evidence from Cross-Country Data

1998

The document examines first the relationship between a number of indicators concerning a country system of education (global and per-pupil public resources by level of schooling, education coverage, quality of educational outcomes, efficiency in student flow, external efficiency, equity by gender and in resource allocation, ..) and and its environment (overall sector context, demographic pressure fiscal, capacity, structure of employment, ..) on the one hand, its level of economic development on the other. The paper analyzes how the economic development affects the amount of resources mobilized for the sector with the finding that the main source of resources lies in the decrease of the tea…

Challenges of nation-branding for stimulation of Latvian exports

2017

Abstract The presented research aims to contribute to the conceptualisation of the nation-brand of Latvia with the purpose of stimulation of national export performance. The subject of the research is three aspects presumably challenging the branding of Latvia with reference to national export development. The investigated challenges are the barriers and opportunities for green-branding of Latvia; the absence of the generally accepted indication of the geographical identity of the Baltic region; and the contradictable popular image of Latvia as a cheap country. The research poses two research questions inquiring into the issues of nation-branding of Latvia currently being faced in the conte…

Focus on Women in Microfinance Institutions

2013

Abstract We provide empirical evidence on focusing on women in microfinance and its consequences for microfinance institutions (MFIs). Based on a global dataset, the results indicate that a focus on women is associated with group-lending methods, international orientation, smaller loans, and non-commercial legal status. We find that a focus on women significantly improves repayment but does not enhance overall financial performance because of higher relative costs. Moreover, the higher relative costs do not stem from servicing women per se but from the smaller loans offered to women and the group-lending methodology practised by MFIs focusing on women.