Abstract Purpose The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the environmental impact and financial cost repairing surgical scissors. Methods We used life cycle assessment (LCA) analysis estimate impacts functional unit one use a reusable scissor (manufactured in Germany UK), three baseline scenarios were compared: no repair, onsite (hospital), offsite (external contract) repair. This ‘...

Recently, immigration and its socio-economic aspects have been in the centre of European Union leaders’ agenda. In this paper, we apply National Transfer Accounts (NTA) methodology to calculate complete set NTA results for immigrants natives five EU countries. We find that due lower labour income, which cannot be offset by consumption, experience a shorter independence period much aggregate lif...

Abstract The environmental and economic benefits of adopting a circular economy (CE) approach could be significant for firms. CE packaging constitute fundamental binomial our economy, yet there are still few studies the advantages food value chains, especially in wine sector. Therefore, this paper, we address research gap by measuring performance business model (CBM) industry as reference. We a...

in this research we have presented a local model for implementing systems engineering activities in optimized acquisition of electronic systems in electronic high-tech industrial. in this regard, after reviewing the literature and the use of documents, articles and latin books, we have collected system acquisition life cycle models from different resources. after considering the criteria of the...

In this paper, the authors study technology assimilation, aggregating technologies and assimilation stages for SMEs. The authors employ the twin lenses of organizational innovation and elements of institutional theory. The research validates some institutional actors and most firm characteristics as important determinants. The relative weaknesses of the institutional actors provide evidence of ...

An assessment method of organizational effectiveness which considers the important organizational attributes of the architectural/construction firm is described. The method is based on a validated configurational approach identified as the competing values approach. In this paper, theoretical approaches used to model organizational effectiveness and the logic of using the selected approach is d...

Building on the standard firm dynamics setup of Hopenhayn (1992), we develop a quantitative theory of aggregate fluctuations arising from idiosyncratic shocks to firm level productivity. This allows us to generalize the theoretical results in Gabaix (2011) to account for persistent micro-level shocks, optimal size decisions as well as endogenous firm entry and exit. We then use our model to pro...

The success of an innovating firm often depends on the efforts of other innovators in its environment. How do the challenges faced by external innovators affect the focal firm’s outcomes? To address this question we first characterize the external environment according to the structure of interdependence. We follow the flow of inputs and outputs in the ecosystem to distinguish between upstream ...