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Advantages of outsourcing the transfusion service
Transfusion Science, 1997Pressures to reduce costs are forcing hospitals to examine alternative delivery systems for transfusion services. An outsourcing arrangement for the transfusion service can be an attractive option, providing benefits not only in terms of economics, but also in terms of quality and medical support. Successful centralized testing models in Pittsburgh and
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Outsourcing via Service Competition
Management Science, 2007We consider a single buyer who wishes to outsource a fixed demand for a manufactured good or service at a fixed price to a set of potential suppliers. We examine the value of competition as a mechanism for the buyer to elicit service quality from the suppliers.
Elahi, Ehsan +2 more
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Challenges of Ensuring Reverse Logistics in a Military Organization Using Outsourced Services
SustainabilityA circular economy is defined as a socially responsible, policy-driven model of business or enterprise operations that contributes to more sustainable society for both current and future generations.
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SLA Design and Service Provisioning for Outsourced Services
Journal of Network and Systems Management, 2009In this work, a business-driven approach to designing Service Level Agreements in an e-commerce environment is proposed. In contrast to conventional SLA design approaches, the one proposed better captures the relationship between service provider and service client by considering the negative business impact (business loss) originated from IT ...
Filipe Marques +2 more
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Outsourcing and the Rise in Services [PDF]
, 2013 This paper investigates the impact of outsourcing on sectoral reallocation in the U.S. over the period 1948-2002. Roughly 40% of the growth of the service sector comes from professional and business services. This is an unusual industry as more than 90% of its output is an intermediate input to other firms, and it is where most of the service ...
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Understanding Innovation in Outsourcing Services
2012Recent years have witnessed an expansion in service industries such as finance, travel and retail. Firms in the services have shifted their traditional occupation with products to consider how value can be created and appropriated in the service industry [1].
Ilan Oshri +2 more
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Outsourcing of Services by Service Firms
2011The traditional “make-or-buy” decision has been widely studied in the context of the theory of the firm and vertical integration. One of the most popular frameworks for examining this strategic decision has been the transaction cost analysis (TCA) framework.
Masaaki Kotabe +2 more
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Outsourcing a Two-Level Service Process
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011This paper studies outsourcing decisions for a two-level service process in which the first level serves as a gatekeeper for a second level of experts. The objective of the system operator (the client) is to minimize the sum of staffing costs, customer waiting costs, and mistreatment costs due to unsuccessful attempts by a gatekeeper to solve the ...
Lee, Hsiao-Hui +2 more
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Outsourcing versus shared services
Communications of the ACM, 2010Choosing between outsourcing and shared services has significant implications for long-term corporate strategy.
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Health Manpower Management, 1994
Explores the problems and opportunities for professions allied to medicine (PAMS) in the new NHS internal market. Uses a mechanism from IT, namely outsourcing, to provide a new organizational model for the effective delivery of care by this group of professionals who are marginalized by the new role of the doctor as manager.
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Explores the problems and opportunities for professions allied to medicine (PAMS) in the new NHS internal market. Uses a mechanism from IT, namely outsourcing, to provide a new organizational model for the effective delivery of care by this group of professionals who are marginalized by the new role of the doctor as manager.
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