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Outsourced Health Care Services
, 2011 This paper provides answers to the question of how medical doctors and nurses at health centres narrate their experiences of outsourced health care services and make sense of their position in the new organization.
Tiina Tiilikka
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Access to Finance and Innovation in the Canadian Food Processing
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Innovation is a presumed channel through which finance affects productivity, yet there is limited research testing the relationship between finance and innovation in the food manufacturing sector. The purpose of the paper is to explore the determinants (e.g., financing, R&D, firm size, expenditure on innovation) of the adoption of innovation ...
Getu Hailu, Deepananda Herath
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the agricultural landscape of most developing countries, the last decade has witnessed the expansion of outsourced agricultural extension services. Private firms and nongovernmental organizations focused on delivering agricultural extension and advisory services to farmers have emerged.
Boris D. Soh Wenda +3 more
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Publicly Verifiable and Efficient Fine-Grained Data Deletion Scheme in Cloud Computing
IEEE Access, 2020 Cloud storage, one of the most attractive services offered by cloud computing, can provide users with boundless storage capacity. Thus, users can outsource their data to the cloud server for greatly saving local storage overhead.
Changsong Yang +3 more
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PPT-LBS: Privacy-preserving top-k query scheme for outsourced data of location-based services
Cyber Security and Applications, 2023 Location-based service (LBS) is enjoying a great popularity with the fast growth of mobile Internet. As the volume of data increases dramatically, an increasing number of location service providers (LSPs) are moving LBS data to cloud platforms for ...
Yousheng Zhou +3 more
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A sustainable business ecosystem: a case study demonstrating biochar's potential
Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, EarlyView.Abstract The need for renewable, climate‐friendly resources has become urgent as legislators worldwide have sought to find ways to cut emissions while ensuring resource security for consumers. The use of biochar could help to achieve these goals. This study examines the current state of commercial biochar production and the maturity of the related ...
Kivijakola Juuso +4 more
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Modern hospitals are networks of organizations [PDF]
Einstein (São Paulo), 2007 Objective: To study how hospitals and their diagnosis and treatmentsupplies relate to each other, analyzing if they have market relations orbehave as networks of organizations. Furthermore, the study tries toset the consequences of such relation in terms
Germany Gonçalves Veloso +1 more
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Promet (Zagreb), 2020 The purpose of this study was to explore outsourcing as a possible source of competitive advantage for road freight operators, with the empirical research directed towards the road freight transportation sector.
Dora Naletina +2 more
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Beyond Offshore Outsourcing of Business Services [PDF]
Competition & Change, 2011 The re-organization of production across national boundaries has been extensively practised in industries such as motor manufacturing and clothing for the past four decades. This follows a realization by companies that competitive advantage would flow from retaining certain business functions in-house, while disaggregating, or externalizing, elements
Hollinshead, Graham +2 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Academic misconduct appeal services have quietly emerged within China's education marketplace, with commercial agencies promoting themselves on social media to assist international students facing misconduct hearings. While existing research on academic integrity has emphasized prevention and detection, far less attention has been paid to what
Gengyan Tang +2 more
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