Health Informatics

When speaking about eBusiness as applied to the healthcare market, two questions arise immediately. First, what is eBusiness? Second, why is eBusiness in healthcare different from eBusiness in other industries? In this chapter, we shall give an overview of the foundations of eBusiness, explain the importance of eBusiness within the healthcare domain, and describe the peculiarities of the h…

Defence Procurement and Industry Policy

This book is about defence procurement and industry policy in small, advanced industrial economies. It is largely an exercise in applied economics but the contributions of legal and management scholars and defence procurement and industry policy practitioners will also be apparent throughout. The book inevitably draws on themes and analysis treated in the defence economics literature and r…

Organ Procurement and Preservation

The concept and understanding of brain death have evolved significantly over the past few decades. This entity has become more recognized as our ability to provide prolonged cardiovascular support to brain injured patients became more sophisticated. In parallel with these developments, organ transplantation became a reality with wider applications resulting in significant increase in demand…

THE PROCUREMENT AND SUPPLY MANAGER’S DESK REFERENCE

This book is written for the procurement and supply chain management professional needing reference to the working methods available today for use on the job. It also has in mind the newly appointed executive or the staff member with only a cursory knowledge of the workings of procurement and supply management. It provides, we trust, a complete compendium of the information that is require…

Economics of Sustainable Energy in Agriculture

This chapter examines whether differences in the efficiency of the use of indirect energy of Dutch arable farms are attributable to differences in management. To do so, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) was used to assess farm-specific efficiency scores for fertilisers — the input most important for energy conservation in crop farming. Next, using the concept of strategic management, the qualit…

Power in Procurement

Success is at the heart of any business. This puts sustainable, profitable Growth in corporate priority list on the top places, because the entrepreneurial Success will ultimately be secured in the long term. This is a challenging Goal to which all functions in the company have to contribute - even and in particular, the procurement function. Strategically wise internally and externally de…

e-Procurement

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An Introduction to Building Procurement

Before examining the procurement process in detail, the latest philosophies adopted by major clients to implement their projects need to be considered because they are likely to affect substantially, at least in the immediate future, the project culture and the way in which clients manage their construction projects. Traditional methods of implementing projects have been replaced over the pa…

ADVANCES IN ACCOUNTING BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH

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10-7623-1353-6

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Procurement Systems

Procurement has long been, and remains, one of the most complex business processes. It can be approached in many different ways. Characterised by its novel cross-disciplinary project management approach, this new book covers more than the conventional themes of project solicitation and proposal evaluation. It builds on Procurement Systems: A Guide to Best Practice in Construction edited by…

Procurement Strategies

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0-632-05886-2

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IT Procurement Handbook for SMEs

When you start writing a book with ‘IT Procurement for SMEs’ as the title, you have a great fear that making it interesting is going to be a challenge. This was a needless fear; the problem was limiting the scope to make the task achievable and the book light enough to pick up. The real problem starts with the scope of the SME (small and medium enterprises) market.

A Purchasing Manager's Guide to Strategic Proactive Procurement

A great many trade books addressing an organization's relations with its suppliers have appeared recently. Perhaps the most advanced is the American Keiretsu by Burt and Michael Doyle (Homewood, Ill.: Business One Irwin, 1993). Whether these books stress early supplier involvement, partnerships, alliances, strategic procurement, or supply management, all these themes require and expressly s…

Why Do Governments Divest?

A review of the past 40 years reveals that economic policymaking has been profoundly influenced by two major phenomena. In the 1960s and 1970s, the Keynesian "revolution" made its debut on the stage of economic policy and determined the actions of policymakers in the Western world. The last two decades of the past millennium intum were influenced by the phenomenon of privatization. While the …

The U.S. Organ Procurement System

The first successful human organ transplant in the United States was performed on December 23, 1954. On that date, a kidney was transplanted from a living donor who was an identical twin of the recipient. Since then, organ transplantation technology has improved enormously, with the principal source of that improvement being the discovery of new immunosuppressive drugs and the increased kn…

Public Authority Procurement Strategy

Procurement is an expensive process. The potential for waste and error is high. The potential for failing to meet people’s expectations is higher still. The process needs to be properly planned and managed. Whilst the Authority is well advised to have a team of trained specialists, an experienced individual should be identified to take responsibility for the management of the procurement…

Complexity Management with the K-Method

This book consists of four parts which describe different aspects of the K-Method. The first part, “Introduction”, describes the K-Method using an example. This part tries to give the reader a feeling of how the K-Method and especially its price formulas work and what kind of advantages are to be expected. This part also describes the problems which could arise when a supplier begins to…

PROJECT RISK MANAGEMENT GUIDELINES

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DEVELOPMENTS IN ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS

At present, problems of optimization of the interaction between nature and human society can be solved only by the joint efforts of a wide range of specialists. The elaboration and realization of plans of socio-economic development for individual countries and regions should be based on the principles of preservation of balance in the biosphere, biogeocenoses, landscapes and other natural com…

THE EQUILIBRIUM ECONOMICS OF LÉON WALRAS

Léon Walras may rightfully be considered as one of the founding fathers of mathematical economics. Much of mathematical economics developed since Walras’s time has gradually become common knowledge in economics. This means that Walras directly and indirectly has had a marked influence upon our science as it stands now. It is therefore important to know how Walras came to his results, what…

THE EVOLUTIONIST ECONOMICS OF LÉON WALRAS

During the last decade the literature on Léon Walras has expanded enormously and, if the signs are right, there is more to come. Undoubtedly, the increased attention for the work of Walras has a lot to do with the increased accessibility of the work through the publication of the collected works by the Centre Walras at the University of Lyon and the archival work at the Centre Walras & Pareto…

Strategic Sourcing in the New Economy

The metaphor of dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants expresses the meaning of discovering truth by building on previous discoveries. Although it is originally attributed to Bernard of Chartres in the twelfth century, Isaac Newton popularized the concept in 1676. The concept is as relevant for us today as it was for Newton in the seventeenth century. Since the early 1980s, pioneering…

ENHANCING PROCUREMENT PRACTICES

Authors usually struggle with finding the right way of presenting the subject matter of their book, because it is not an easy job to guide the readers through a large number of closely interrelated issues in a really effective and enjoyable manner. This is particularly true in case of addressing procurement since many of the work processes to be described are of iterative nature. It means …

E-Procurement in Emerging Economies

Over the last couple of years, e-procurement has received tremendous attention from researchers and practitioners alike. However, research on e-procurement is still scarce and scattered. This chapter looks into prior research on inter-organizational information systems (IOIS), electronic data interchange (EDI), channel management, and procurement to develop a research framework and identif…

Surgical Technique of the Abdominal Organ Procurement

There are many ways to perform abdominal organ procurement (1–19). In this book, I describe the abdominal multiorgan procurement operation, which is performed on a hemodynamically stable, brain death donor. Brain death is defined as a complete, irreversible, and permanent cessation of electric activity of the brain, including the brain stem. The donor is defined as a heart-beating donor (…

E-Procurement

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Classical Econophysics

This monograph examines the domain of classical political economy using the method- ologies developed in recent years both by the new discipline of econo-physics and by computing science. This approach is used to re-examine the classical subdivisions of political economy: production, exchange, distribution and finance. The book begins by examining the most basic feature of economic life – pr…

ENTREPRENEURIAL ECONOMICS

Would you rather live in a world without blood transfusions or a world without maritime insurance? Blood transfusions are dramatic and memorable (which is why we see them on prime-time hospital shows), while the facilitation of commerce through risk sharing is routine and easily taken for granted. But I'd be willing to bet that by almost any measure, three centuries of organized insurance marke…

Strategic Procurement in Construction

This book has been written in order to contribute to the debate about best practice in construction procurement. At the outset it should be made plain that the authors do not subscribe to the view that there is any such thing as best practice. The main argument in this book is that there can never be a best practice, only better practice, in construction procurement. The reason for arrivi…

An Introduction to Mathematics for Economics

The material in the main text ranges from a revision of high-school mathematics to applications of calculus (single-variate, multivariate and integral) to economics and finance. For example: linear and quadratic functions are introduced in the context of demand and supply analysis; geometric sequences, exponential and logarithmic functions are introduced in the context of finance; single-variat…