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This guide provides a systematic approach for the preparation and evaluation of privately financed projects (PFPs) or services. It is intended to assist both the principal (often a public body) and the promoter (private body) at each phase of the procurement process, from inception through to financial closure. Stakeholders involved in a PFP procurement process may use the guide to gain an …
The Air Force is in the process of significantly changing the way it purchases goods and services, with the goals of reducing costs and increasing performance to better support its missions. During spring 2002, SAF/AQC developed a Procurement Transformation Strategy that outlines a roadmap for changing the Air Force’s procurement policies, processes, personnel, and related technologies t…
The most imperative challenge facing a number of managers in recent years has been to regain lost market share and secure new competitive advantages. The impetus for this trend continues to be the ubiquitous tendency toward globalization and the ensuing intensification of international competition. Customer orientation, lean management and re-engineering are the buzzwords that characterize …
With any new work, the question that always has to be answered is—why? Why a new book on supply chain management and procurement? Why another book about lean systems? Why should we care? Is there anything more important that we can learn from the concept of lean supply chain management? Why a new book on supply chain management? The answer is simply because the works that exist tend to tr…
Increasing global competition and cost pressure force enterprises and supply chains to discover undetected cost-saving potentials. In particular, interfaces to the procurement market are a promising field for improvement. Recent developments in international trade outline the high influence of uncertain deliveries and highly volatile prices on the companies’ costs. A vital question in res…
An examination of the historical background to the use of procurement systems shows that in the post-war period up to the early 1970s, despite all relevant official reports and studies recommending otherwise, the majority of building work was carried out by conventional methods of procurement with only a relatively small number of projects being implemented by means of, what were then, non…
This book was written to provide an overview of the day-to-day aspects with which a portfolio manager must be concerned. Theories and essential calculations are covered, along with a practical description of what is involved in managing portfolios. This book is not designed to focus on portfolio management in either a bull or a bear market scenario. Whether markets go up or down, the essentia…
In this paper I advocate and illustrate a new approach to the study of accounting measurement and disclosure that is strikingly different from the usual studies of disclosure in pure exchange economies. This new approach studies the “real effects” of accounting disclosure, arguing that how accountants measure and report firms’ economic transactions, earnings and cash flows to capital ma…
After decades of research, discussion, and debate, economists have finally acknowledged the importance, if not the primacy, of institutions as the bedrock of sustained growth and development. While policies can make a difference, recent econometric studies indicate that much will depend on the institutions that govern a country (Rodrik, Subramanian, and Trebbi 2002). Institutions, in this c…
In September 2005 we organized a conference at the University of Cassino, Italy, the aim of which was to explore ‘The Keynesian Legacy in Macro- economic Modelling’. In the postwar period, macroeconomic modelling of developed economies was mainly rooted in Keynesian theory up to the 1970s, when the failure of applied models to deal with stagflation led to a shift in economic theory towards …