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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-
An analysis of the competition that impinges on the Milan-Rome intercity passenger transport link
No full textOperating costs and market organization in railway services. The case of Italy, 1980-1995.
No full textWe estimate a transcendental logarithmic (translog) short-run variable cost function for the Italian railway company, Ferrovie dello Stato (FS), using data on the years 1980-1995. Within the study period, we show that: (a) the translog function represents a good approximation of the underlying technology of FS; (b) all production factor demands are inelastic; (c) FS has a limited ability to substitute between inputs; (d) FS operates with diseconomies of density. A major implication of these findings is that the rail network is not used optimally, so that either a cut in the frequency of trains or a rise in capital investments seems to be indicated. Since the estimated cost function is super-additive at the relevant output levels, we derive that rail service provision in Italy would not behave as a natural monopoly in the absence of regulation. Indeed, allocative efficiency indicates that there is enough room for a duopolistic industry where joint or specialized production of passenger and freight carryings would be pursued, mainly depending on firm size
Is Telecommunications Productivity Characterized by Steady State Conditions? Some empirical evidence for 13 OECD countries
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
Care Appropriateness and Health Productivity Evolution: A Non-Parametric Analysis of the Italian Regional Health Systems
No full textThere has been increasing interest in measuring the productive performance of healthcare services since the mid-1980s
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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