Rodríguez-Espíndola, Oscar
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OR spectrum : quantitative approaches in management
The increasing damage caused by disasters is a major challenge for disaster management authorities, especially in instances where simultaneous disasters affect different geographical areas. The uncertainty and chaotic conditions caused by these situations combined with the inherent complexity of collaboration between multiple stakeholders complicat...
Smith, Andrew S. J. Nilsson, Jan-Eric Ridderstedt, Ivan Johansson, Oskar
The problem of slow productivity growth in the road construction (and wider construction) industry is well known. The present paper suggests a means for efficiency analysis in one part of this industry, namely road surface renewal in Sweden, built upon the application of Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) techniques. The paper is novel in that it f...
Pyddoke, Roger Thoresson, Karin
Collaborative contracting between public transport authorities (PTAs) and bus operators has been presented as a successful method for reaching public transport policy goals. This paper examines management processes and outcome data, asking whether this management approach, incorporating more far-reaching collaborative elements, is associated with h...
Siddiqui, A. Tansen, K. Abdalla, H.
Procurement is an important governance tool that is used by the government and development agencies globally to manage and fulfil their complex development plans. However, corruption is a persistent and pervasive issue that hinders ethical progress and it can have a detrimental effect on the outcome of the proposed project that involves more than a...
Rogers, Parker
Chapter One examines how FDA regulation affects innovation and market concentration. I examine this question by exploiting FDA deregulation events that affected certain medical device types but not others. I collect comprehensive data on medical device innovation, device safety, firm entry, prices, and regulatory changes and enhance these data usin...
Westling, Gustav
This thesis investigates how a company can implement life cycle analysis (LCA) into procurement. The thesis also explores the potential synergies between the LCA and procurement. A single casestudy was utilized for this purpose. It uses LCAs using a simplified methodology, interviews, and a literature review to carry out the study. The thesis was c...
Bellais, Renaud
Since the 1980s, most reforms in major arms-producing countries focus on keeping costs under control by either promoting competition between suppliers or by reducing information asymmetry through audits and controls. Indeed, cost escalation represents a challenge but, in fact, these reforms try to adjust the functioning of defence market rather tha...
Siddiqui, A. Tansen, K. Abdalla, H.
An imperative issue that impedes economic, social, and environmental progress is the involvement of the middle tier in public institutions. Due to inadequate transparency and clandestineness in establishments, the trust in procurement process has become a predominant concern that affects many nations around the world. Governments across the globe h...
Gandjour, Afschin
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BMC health services research
The European Union (EU) has received criticism for being slow to secure coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine contracts in 2020 before the approval of the first COVID-19 vaccine. This study aimed to retrospectively analyze the EU's COVID-19 vaccine procurement strategy. To this end, the study retrospectively determined the minimum vaccine efficacy...
Muhamed Salim, Mehna (author)
Sustainability is seen as one of the most important challenges faced by the world today (Silvius, 2017). Within EPC companies, there are quite some ambitions at the strategic level to integrate sustainability into project procurement, but implementation at the project level is still quite limited. Additionally, existing literature focusing on susta...
