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Bankruptcy in the life-cycle consumption model
No full textAn analysis assessing the sensitivity of consumption to income using a life-cycle model of consumption that incorporates the possibility of bankruptcy.Bankruptcy ; Consumer credit ; Consumption (Economics)
The My Lai Massacre in American history and memory
No full textThis book examines the response of American society to the massacre and its ambiguous place in American national memory. The author argues that the massacre revelations left many Americans untroubled, and it was only when the soldiers most immediately responsible came to be tried that the controversy really came to public attention. He finds that, contrary to interpretations of the Vietnam conflict as an unhealed national trauma or wound, many Americans have assimilated the war and its violence rather too well, and they were able to do so even when that violence was most conspicuous and current. Consistent with the view that US soldiers have subsequently been cast in national culture as the conflict’s principal victims, it was the American perpetrators of the massacre and not the Vietnamese they brutalized who, even in the case of My Lai, became the central object of popular concern
Organizational excellence and the management of knowledge : to what extent can we build on the knowledge based view of the firm?
No full textOrganizational excellence in healthcare
No full textHealthcare, as any other service operation, requires systematic innovation efforts to remain competitive, cost efficient and up to date. In this paper, we outline a methodology and present how principles of two improvement programs, i.e., Lean Thinking and Six Sigma, can be combined to provide an effective framework for producing systematic innovation efforts in healthcare. The benefits of this approach are that healthcare cost increases can be kept in control, while quality is improved, and better healthcare is provided. The approach is illustrated by a longitudinal case study of a period of five years in a hospital
Organizational excellence in healthcare
No full textHealthcare, as any other service operation, requires systematic innovation efforts to remain competitive, cost efficient and up to date. In this paper, we outline a methodology and present how principles of two improvement programs, i.e., Lean Thinking and Six Sigma, can be combined to provide an effective framework for producing systematic innovation efforts in healthcare. The benefits of this approach are that healthcare cost increases can be kept in control, while quality is improved, and better healthcare is provided. The approach is illustrated by a longitudinal case study of a period of five years in a hospital
Walras-Lindahl-Wicksell: What equilibrium concept for public goods provision ? I - The convex case
No full textDespite the large number of its references, this paper is less a survey than a systematic exposition, in an unifying framework and assuming convexity as well on the consumption side as on the production side, of the different equilibrium concepts elaborated for studying provision of public goods. As weak as possible conditions for their existence and their optimality properties are proposed. The general conclusion is that the drawbacks of the different equilibrium concepts lead to founding public economic policy either on direct Pareto improving government interventions or on state enforcement of decentralized mechanisms.Private provision equilibrium ; Lindahl-Foley equilibrium ; public competitive equilibrium ; abstract economies ; equilibrium existence ; welfare theorems ; core
Third Generation Quality Management II : Alignment Implications for the Business Proposition, Strategies and Value Creation
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68555.pdf ( ) (Open Access)Sixth meeting of the Multinational Alliance for the Advancement of Organizational Excellence (MAAOE), 19 juni 2007545 p
Management Models for the Future
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68794.pdf ( ) (Open Access)Sixth meeting of the Multinational Alliance for the Advancement of Organizational Excellence (MAAOE), 19 juni 2007545 p
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Total cross sections and elastic scattering at the SSC
No full textThe need is discussed of a special purpose detector for the measurement of elastic scattering at the SSC. The detector would cover as small a solid angle as is practical. Two techniques are described briefly to measure total cross sections at hadron storage rings. The direct method is to measure the interaction rate in an IR of known luminosity - a method that gets more difficult increasing energy. A second method is to use the optical theorem. 6 refs., 1 fig. (LEW
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