New evidence confirms the conclusion of former surveys that the link between school resources and student performance is generally missing in educational production. While the conventional within-country cross-section evidence remains controversial, recent contributions which control for potential resource endogeneity suggest that returns to resource usage in education are decreasing. Resources...

The spectrum of surgical care in the tropics varies from excellent to almost non-existent. The majority of the tropical countries, being developing countries, share the common phenomenon of scarce surgical resources both in terms of personnel and medical equipment. The estimated number of surgeons per 100,000 populations is only 7 for Colombia; 1.5 for the Philippines; 0.5 for West Africa and o...

novation is one of the important topics of the obligations law, that is in its special and traditional meaning a legal act , and has been adopted from roman law and it has been used in civil codes of the most countries, among them iran. with due attention to special role of the imamiyah jurisprudence rules in codification of the iran civil code, some questions are propounded in connection to no...

The paper is centered on the role of technology and specifically of IT in the recombination of the factors of production. Particularly, the objective is to see how this technology contributes to the formulation of business strategies, the outlining of organizational structures and the alignment with the business environment. A theoretical framework is proposed that combines three perspectives. ...

Natural resource-related conflicts can be extremely destructive and undermine environmental protection. Since the 1990 s co-management schemes, whereby the management of resources is shared by public and/or private sector stakeholders, have been a main strategy for reducing these conflicts worldwide. Despite initial high hopes, in recent years co-management has been perceived as falling short o...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to set out a methodological framework to investigate how the integration of an activity-based costing (ABC) logic into the pre-existent accounting system supports healthcare organizations in identifying the inefficiencies related to their diagnostic therapeutic pathways (DTP) and related reengineering interventions. Design/methodology/approach – The BPM-AB...