Inefficiency in the German Mechanical Engineering Sector

The future of German mechanical engineering

the impact of e-readiness on ec success in public sector in iran the impact of e-readiness on ec success in public sector in iran

acknowledge the importance of e-commerce to their countries and to survival of their businesses and in creating and encouraging an atmosphere for the wide adoption and success of e-commerce in the long term. the investment for implementing e-commerce in the public sector is one of the areas which is focused in government‘s action plan for cross-disciplinary it development and e-readiness in go...

Does Higher Cost Inefficiency Imply Higher Profit Inefficiency? - Evidence on Inefficiency and Ownership of German Hospitals

This paper investigates cost and profit efficiency of German hospitals. More specifically, it deals with the question how hospital efficiency varies with ownership, patient structure, and other exogenous factors, which are neither inputs nor outputs of the production process. We conduct a Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) on a multifaceted administrative German dataset combined with the balanc...

Sector Strategy: German Development Policy in the Health Sector

Innovating in the German Public Sector:

We investigate the innovation function of a think tank in the course of modernization of the German public sector. Our focus is on the framing strategy the think tank pursues in order to disseminate new knowledge. We select publications released by the think tank and conduct a textual analysis on them in order to reveal the frames for which they serve as vehicles. Three stages of the framing pr...