Influence costs and hierarchy

Costs of Quality: Exploratory Analysis of Hidden Elements and Prioritization using Analytic Hierarchy Process

Cost of Quality analysis is emerged as an effective tool for the industrial managers for pinpointing the deficiencies in the system as well as for identifying the improvement areas by highlighting the cost reduction opportunities. However , this analysis will be fully effective only if it is further extended to identify the cost incurred in ensuring quality in all areas of the supply chain incl...

Influence Costs, Structural Inertia, and Organizational Change

This paper builds an economic model of the relationship between influence activity and resistance to change in organizations. I show that influence activity can create harmful barriers to change and that the influence costs of change are positively related to the firm’s prospects. The model rationalizes the widely held view that firms often must endure a survival-threatening crisis before meani...

costs of quality: exploratory analysis of hidden elements and prioritization using analytic hierarchy process

cost of quality analysis is emerged as an effective tool for the industrial managers for pinpointing the deficiencies in the system as well as for identifying the improvement areas by highlighting the cost reduction opportunities. however , this analysis will be fully effective only if it is further extended to identify the cost incurred in ensuring quality in all areas of the supply chain incl...

Does Coordinated Postpartum Care Influence Costs?

QUESTIONS UNDER STUDY To investigate changes to health insurance costs for post-discharge postpartum care after the introduction of a midwife-led coordinated care model. METHODS The study included mothers and their newborns insured by the Helsana health insurance group in Switzerland and who delivered between January 2012 and May 2013 in the canton of Basel Stadt (BS) (intervention canton). W...

Clinical Governance: Costs and Benefits