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Differential analysis of the impact of adopting outsourced machinery services on land transfer between contracted and outsourced land-holding

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications
The use of outsourced machinery services has significantly transformed agricultural production methods, leading to varying impacts on farmers’ land transfer behaviors.
Maogang Gong   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Secured Service Delivery Model for Outsourced Services in a Business Process Outsourcing Relationship [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Information and Communication Sciences, 2019
In business process outsourcing (BPO), the model of delivery of processed service and communication media between the client and service provider are critical factors in a successful client-provider relationship. The client’s business objectives would not be achieved if processed services are delivered through unsecured channels and truncated ...
Ikerionwu, Charles, Edgar, David
openaire   +2 more sources

Transparency and the performance of outsourced government services [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The Office of the Information Commission Queensland / ANZSOG Occasional Paper series aims to objectively evaluate the available evidence about whether openness can be a far more powerful tool than secrecy in serving the public interest.
Richard Mulgan
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Protecting Patient Information in Outsourced Telehealth Services

open access: yes, 2008
Hospitals have increasingly employed outsourcing to lower the cost of healthcare delivery and improve efficiency and quality, thereby, enabling more focus on core competencies of patient care, teaching, and research.
Debra Noles, Patricia Y. Logan
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Can outsourcing pest and disease control help reduce pesticide expenditure? Evidence from rice farmers

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Outsourcing pest and disease control (PDC) has grown rapidly worldwide, especially in developing countries. Although numerous studies have investigated various advantages of outsourcing PDC, little is known about its impact on pesticide expenditure.
Pengcheng Wang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Self-Owned or Outsourced? The Impact of Farm Machinery Adoption Decisions on Chinese Farm Households’ Operating Income

open access: yesAgriculture
Using farm machinery plays a significant role in easing the issue of slowing growth of operating income among farm households in China. Drawing data from CFPS2018, this study adopts a multinomial endogenous switching regression (MESR) to analyze the ...
Yuan Hu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Outsourcing in Shiraz University of Medical Sciences; a before and after study

open access: yesJournal of the Egyptian Public Health Association, 2019
Background Outsourcing is a kind of participation between public and private sector. This should be monitored and supervised to enhance the quality of outsourced services and to prevent new problems in this area.
Omid Barati   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cheap is cheap, no matter what they say : collective bargaining and working conditions in outsourced services in Poland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Outsourcing services in Poland has been following the general trend in global economy and experienced dynamic development in the recent decade. According to the estimations currently there are over 700 Shared Services Centre (SSC) and Business Process ...
Owczarek, Dominik   +3 more
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Foreign labor, peer‐networking and agricultural efficiency in the Italian dairy sector

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract While the presence of immigrants in the agricultural sector is widely acknowledged, the empirical evidence on its economic consequences is lacking, especially from a microeconomic perspective. Using the Farm Accountancy Data Network panel data for Italian dairy farms in the period 2008–2018, the present study investigates the relationship ...
Federico Antonioli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sharing Privacy Protected and Statistically Sound Clinical Research Data Using Outsourced Data Storage

open access: yesJournal of Applied Mathematics, 2014
It is critical to scientific progress to share clinical research data stored in outsourced generally available cloud computing services. Researchers are able to obtain valuable information that they would not otherwise be able to access; however, privacy
Geontae Noh, Ji Young Chun, Ik Rae Jeong
doaj   +1 more source

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