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Business potential in senior services

International Journal of Strategic Property Management, 2005
Europe and generally the western societies are aging rapidly. Public sector in many countries is facing difficulties to keep up the same level of social and health care services as before.
Johanna Nummelin
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Supporting AI Readiness Through Digital Workflows in Materials Science

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Digitalization drives innovation in materials science by connecting data silos and turning heterogeneous processes into reusable research pipelines. Across 13 MaterialDigital projects, digital workflows reveal complementary pathways toward AI‐ready materials research, founded on structured data, persistent artifacts, executable orchestration, and ...
Marian Bruns, Lateef Abdul, Stephan Barth, Martin Glauer, Manuel Günther, Fabian Neuhaus, Jan‐Ole Perschewski, Thomas Bjarsch, Henrik Abel, Johannes Bosch, Niklas Meyer, Peter Hofmann, Marc Drechsler, Alexander Dyck, Dhanunjaya Kumar Nerella, Marvin Tegeler, Oleg Shchyglo, Ingo Steinbach, Timo Klecker, Henk Birkholz, Ehsan Borzabadi Farahani, Bernard Fedelich, Cetin Haftaoglu, Tarakeshwar Lakshmipathy, Elena Garcia Trelles, Christoph Schweizer, Reza Darvishi Kamachali, Lukas Koschmieder, Janin Eiken, Markus Apel, Sung‐Min Wi, Jiangdong Zhao, Andreas Fezer, Nicolas Christ, Patrick Schneider, Eldor Urinov, Veit Königer, Volker Knoblauch, Janik Harter, Thomas Seifert, Thitichai Janpheng, Florian Fuchs, Fabian Teichert, Jörg Schuster, Anke Bardehle, Andreas Limper, Ulrich Giese, Carlos Lucke, Mario Beiner, Christoph Gögelein, Lisa Leuchtenberger‐Engel, Christian Hopmann, Felix Wentzien, Heike Wittek, Benjamin Klie, Alexander Röhrs, Ludger Overmeyer, Achraf Atila, Marcel Sadowski, Leopold Talirz, Jan Janssen, Jesper R. Pedersen, Peter Beck, Tejs Vegge, Ivano E. Castelli, Wolfgang Wenzel, Tilmann Hickel, Jörg Schaarschmidt   +67 more
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Outsourcing the Business Services [PDF]

Informatică economică, 2010
The nowadays international market of outsourcing services is relatively mature and with age comes wisdom ... Thus, on a grown market, choosing to outsource services can not only be justified by the strive to reduce costs but it aims to meeting more ...
Ioan I. ANDONE, Vasile Daniel PAVALOAIA
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Shared services - Implementation and continuous evolution (Article 2 of 3)

Acta Commercii, 2006
Purpose: Now that an organisation understands the concept of shared services (Article 1), it needs to implement shared services as a business model. The purpose of this second article in the trilogy is to describe the phases during the implementation ...
T. N. Van der Linde, A. L. Boessenkool, C. J. Jooste   +2 more
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Durability of Soft Pneumatic Actuators: A Review and Benchmarking Protocol

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Lack of durability is a key challenge hindering the broad scale adoption of soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) in automation industries. This review provides a comprehensive overview of existing research on SPA durability, introduces a standardized durability benchmarking protocol to consolidate the testing of SPAs, and outlines promising directions for ...
Dickson Chiu Yu Wong, Yucheng Luo, Rob Bernardus Nicolaas Scharff   +2 more
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Changing spaces of knowledge-based business services in Hungary

Hungarian Geographical Bulletin, 2009
Recently, the process of networking and knowledge production in business services has been widely discussed in the context of the liberalisation of the services’ market in the EU, and of the integration of the emerging economies into international flows ...
Erika Nagy, Gábor Nagy
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Key success factors for the management of a shared services business unit (Article 3 of 3)

Acta Commercii, 2006
Purpose: The first and second articles in the trilogy introduced shared services as a business model and the various models through which a shared services business can and must evolve to create value.
T. N. Van der Linde, A. L. Boessenkool, C. J. Jooste   +2 more
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What Really Drives Agri‐Environment‐Climate Measures' Adoption? Mandatory Requirements, Behavioral Traits, and Structural Factors in the CAP Green Architecture

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT To increase farmer adoption of green practices, the EU Common Agricultural Policy includes both mandatory (conditionality) and voluntary instruments (eco‐schemes–ECS– and more demanding, multi‐annual agri‐environment‐climate measures –AECM–). Building on the experiment of Barreiro‐Hurle et al.
L. Sanchez‐Mata, M. Rodríguez‐Entrena, M. Espinosa‐Goded, F. J. Dessart, J. Barreiro‐Hurlé   +4 more
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DETERMINANTS OF CUSTOMER LOYALTY IN THE ROMANIAN FUEL RETAIL MARKET: AN EXTENDED EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS [PDF]

Annals of the University of Oradea: Economic Science
This paper examines the determinants of customer loyalty in Romania’s fuel retail market, an emerging and highly competitive sector where service differentiation and brand trust increasingly shape consumer behavior.
Anghel Tudorel COZMA, Smaranda Adina COSMA, Marius BOTA   +2 more
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Keeping Pace or Falling Behind? The Depth of Latin American Trade Agreements

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines whether Latin American countries are keeping pace with global trends in trade agreement depth or falling behind. Using 681 agreements (1970–2019), we develop the Depth Index of Trade Agreements (DITA) to weight provisions endogenously through factor analysis based on co‐occurrence patterns.
Raphael Gomes da Silva, Fernanda Aparecida Silva, Lia Nogueira   +2 more
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