the present study is intended to examine the effect of accounting conservatism on firms’ non-profitability in tehran stock exchange in 48 unprofitable firms and 57 profitable firms over a period of seven years from 2001 to 2007. this study was conducted according to givoly and hayn model to measure accounting conservatism index in non-profitable and profitable) firms. data analysis performed wi...

background and objectives: the reliability of hospital assessment results depends on the appropriateness of the indicators used. in this study, we systematically review the literature to identify the major indicators of hospital performance evaluation, as employed in performance assessment literature.methods: literature databases including pubmed, scopus, science direct, google scholar, doja, a...

introduction: self-assessment in healthcare is inevitable, like in all other sections. scarce resources, necessity of performance refining, vitality of provided services and quality of services are evidence for necessity of having a proper system of self-assessment of performance in this area. hence, the purpose of present study was to study areas of improvement based on european foundation for...

this study examines inventory management practices of flour milling manufacturing firms and their effects on operational performance. five flour milling manufacturing firms in lagos were used for this study. structured questionnaire was the major instrument for the collection of relevant primary data while descriptive statistics such as mean and standard deviation was deployed to analyzing the ...

the main objective of the present survey is to conduct a comparative analysis of the challenges of the performance evaluation system in two private and public sectors and their impact on effectiveness of human resources management practices. this survey was conducted using the field-descriptive method. the historical study method was used to collect theoretical subjects and the field study meth...

In China, more firms in the textile and apparel industry adopt environmental management systems compared to firms that manufacture other products. It is important to know how the firms’ financial and real performances are affected. We study the changes of firms’ performance in profitability, sales, and operational efficiency after environmental management system (EMS) adoption using an event st...

control and evaluation are major secrets of an organization's survival.universities, as research and educational organizations, need to be evaluated in order to survive. the results of educational activities encompass a vast spectrum including the graduates, researchers and planners, scientific publications, as well as satisfaction of students, parents, profossors and staff (ramsden, 1996).th...

the aim of this study was to investigate the impact of management information system on employees’ performance of tehran province water and wastewater company in district 5. the present study was an applied research in terms of purpose and a descriptive correlational survey in terms of method. cochran's formula was used to determine sample size which was 219 employees. the statistical samp...

background; the performance of the hse units has various dimensions leading to different performances. thus, any industry should be capable of evaluating these systems. the aim of this study was to design a standard questionnaire in the field of performance evaluation of hse management system employing balanced score card model. methods; in this study we, first determined the criteria to be eva...

An important part of dialogue management in a dialogue system is topic management: The system has to keep track of topic aspects (current topic, context, obligations, : : : ) in order to be able to resolve ambiguities and to respond in a cooperative and sensible way. In the schisma project, we are developing a system that takes part in a conversation about theater performances and is able to ma...