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The impact of multi-cultural teams on the efficiency of hospital care in Dubai
No full textAncarani A., Ayach A., Di Mauro C., GITTO S., Mancuso P.
(2015). The impact of multi-cultural teams on the
efficiency of hospital care in Dubai. Research in the
Decision Sciences for Global Business: Best Papers from
the 2013 Annual Conference. p. 153-170, Pearson FT
Press, ISBN/ISSN: 978-0-13-405232-
The measurement of productivity and efficiency: theory and applications
Full text linkQuesta tesi discute diversi metodi per la stima della produttivita’ ed efficienza. Sono discussi i recenti miglioramenti nelle tecniche di stima con tre diverse applicazioni.
Nella prima applicazione, l’indice di Tornqvist e’ usato per stimare la produttivita’ totale dei fattori di Alitalia, la principale compagnia area Italiana. Nella seconda applicazione, la DEA boostrata e’ impiegata per investigare l’efficienza e le caratteristiche manageriali degli aeroporti italiani. Nella terza applicazione, uno stimatore iperbolico alpha-quantile e’ utilizzato nello studio dell’efficienza e della produttività degli ospedali italiani.This thesis shows several methods to measure the productivity and the efficiency. Recent improvements in methods are discussed and three applications are reported.
In particular, I presented an application of the Tornqvist index numbers to measure the total factor productivity of Alitalia, the main Italian airline; a study of Italian airport sector with the use of bootstrapped-DEA; and an investigation of the efficiency of public Italian hospitals using a hyperbolic, alpha-quantile estimator
Targeted pharmacotherapy for cardiovascular risk reduction in patients with diabetes undergoing liver transplantation: Author's reply
No full textThe Italian airport industry in transition: a performance analysis
No full textThis paper analyzes the impacts of Italian government actions on the efficiency of 36 airports between 2001 and 2003 The changes have included privatization, enlargement of the services provided directly by airport management companies, through the modification of the concession agreements, and the creation of two hubs. The analysis, using the consolidated two-stage data envelopment analysis with bootstrapping, indicates that airports with a majority public holding are on average more efficient and the presence of two hubs is source of inefficiency (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserve
Restructuring the Alitalia business model
No full textThis paper analyzes the performance of the Italian airline company, Alitalia, after the deregulation in the air transport industry in the European Union. Company performance is analyzed using Tornqvist indices. The evidence shows as Alitalia productivity slowdown has been caused by the company failure to support an increase in input with a supply-oriented strategy. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserve
Efficiency change, technological change and capital accumulation in Italian regions: a sectoral study
No full textThis paper examines the sources of labour productivity in the Italian regions during the period 1980–2004. Five economic sectors are investigated using data envelopment analysis (DEA) and taking into account productive specialisation and sector inefficiencies. Labour productivity change is decomposed into five components by means of Malmquist productivity indices: intra-sector efficiency change, composition efficiency change, input-biased technical change, magnitude component technical change and capital accumulation. Using bootstrap procedure, the components of labour productivity changes are statistically tested. Efficiency analysis shows that productive specialisation is not a source of inefficiency and efficiency gains can be obtained by sector-specific policies. Thus, it is possible to obtain improvements in efficiency in each sector of activity rather than reallocating resources among sectors. The results of the decomposition by sectors reveal heterogeneous sources of growth. The total economy has shown evidence of non-neutral technical change and, it has been found that agriculture, industry and construction experienced capital using technical change. The analysis of the decomposition of the labour productivity growth is complemented by an analysis of β-convergence
Light emitting diodes technology in public light system of the municipality of Rome: an economic and financial analysis
Full text linkThis study evaluates an investment project concerning the redevelopment of the public lighting of the Municipality of Rome. In particular, we consider the replacing of the traditional lamps of the system with light emitting diodes lamps. We consider the factors that affect this kind of project: The cost of energy, the manteinance cost, the investment cost and the weighted average cost of capital. Our results underline the reduction of energy consumption and of the maintenance costs, lower emissions of CO2 into the atmosphere, the reduction of light pollution, the positive effects on road safety and the indipendence by incentives
Beyond the learning frontier and the human capital development: new and old technological opportunities for the competence-based enterprises
No full textWith both increasing functionality and affordability, e-learning is being used extensively in organisations of all sizes. Despite this, surprisingly, little is known about current e-business usage, whether disparities exist between the utilisation of e-business by companies and universities, or about its impact on the general professional standing of the HR professionals. In order to help reduce this gap, we developed and administered a survey and gave structured interviews to assess and compare the specific areas of use and to introduce a taxonomy that provides a framework for further academic research, analysis and discussion in this area
Shari'ah-compliant finance: a possible novel paradigm for green economy investments in Italy
Full text linkIn Italy, the dramatic reduction of government incentives has caused a decrease of investments in the renewable energy sector. For this reason, it is necessary to rethink funding techniques, extending the analysis to different cultural and financial models. In this paper, we study the incentive-dependency of an Italian case study in the wind energy sector in order to reach grid parity, comparing the obtained results with those of Islamic finance and conventional finance. In particular, we propose that Sukuk Islamic finance instruments be used for the realization of real assets in Shari'ah-compliant finance that prohibits interest rates, as in conventional financial markets, and we present the building cost thresholds necessary to achieve grid parity. Our results highlight the importance of incentives and the applicability of the use of Sukuk instruments for sustainable investments in the wind energy sector, which is crucial in the framework of current efforts against climate change as well as efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Information and communication technology and labour productivity growth: a production‐frontier approach
No full textThis work provides evidence of the positive impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on the labour productivity growth of 24 countries, members of the OECD, from 1995 to 2019. Using a non-parametric production-frontier approach, we decompose labour productivity growth into components attributable to technological change (shifts in the world production frontier), efficiency change (movements toward or away from the frontier), physical (non-ICT) capital change and ICT capital change (movements along the frontier). We find that, on average, the most significant improvement in worldwide labour productivity is attributable to technological change, non-ICT, and ICT capital change over 1995-2019. In addition, we confirm the role of ICT as a general-purpose technology that needs to implement complementary changes in business organisations to exploit its growth opportunities fully. Finally, we conclude that ICT capital contributes to convergence
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