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Crime Data for Effective Personnel Staffing and Deployment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Data analytics are used by professional sports teams to properly deploy their defenses and make their offenses even more productive. These professionals also use statistics to determine how well they are doing.
Rickwartz II, Stanley J.
core  

Digital Transformation for Eco‐Innovation: Evidence From Agriculture 4.0 Adoption in Wine Firms

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Firms face a fundamental strategic dilemma: how to align digital transformation with environmental sustainability while maintaining competitive advantage. Drawing on the eco‐innovation and green business strategy literature, this paper investigates how Agriculture 4.0 technologies act as enablers of sustainability strategies.
Alessandro Muscio   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

An exact algorithm for an integrated project staffing problem with a homogeneous workforce

open access: yes, 2016
When scheduling projects under resource constraints, assumptions are typically made with respect to the resource availability. In resource scheduling problems important assumptions are made with respect to the resource requirements.
Vanhoucke, Mario, Maenhout, Broos
core   +1 more source

Rising Strong: Cultivating Resilience in Edible City Entrepreneurship. Insights Into the Landscape of Urban Food Initiatives

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In response to growing global challenges, this study explores how social entrepreneurship within the Edible City movement contributes to building resilient, sustainable, and equitable urban food systems. Drawing on semistructured interviews with over 70 stakeholders across five cities—Berlin, Andernach, Oslo, Rotterdam, and Havana—we ...
Ina Säumel   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Elaborating the Motivations and Attitudes Driving Interest in Voluntary Biodiversity Credits

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Global biodiversity loss has prompted the search for new sources of conservation finance, such as voluntary biodiversity credits (VBCs). However, despite optimistic market projections, current uptake of VBCs is limited. Adopting an interpretive approach, we analyse 21 semistructured interviews with early market actors (buyers, sellers ...
Gamze Yakar‐Pritchard   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Challenging combinatorial optimisation problems with a personnel scheduling component

open access: yes, 2012
Personnel scheduling can become a particularly difficult optimisation problem due to human factors. And yet: people working in healthcare, transportation and other round the clock service regimes perform their duties based on a schedule that was often ...
Vanden Berghe, Greet
core  

A Mathematical Programming Model for Scheduling Nursing Personnel in a Hospital

open access: yes
The Nursing Personnel Scheduling Problem is defined as the identification of that staffing pattern which (1) specifies the number of nursing personnel of each skill class to be scheduled among the wards and nursing shifts of a scheduling period, (2 ...
Juan Prawda, D. Michael Warner
core   +1 more source

Eco‐Renewal Urgency: Enabling Eco‐Innovation and Driving Sustainable Transformation Within Organizations

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Building on dynamic capabilities theory, this paper develops a conceptual model explaining how organizations pursue eco‐innovation. Drawing on in‐depth interviews with sustainability and innovation managers across diverse industries, the study provides rich empirical insights into the drivers of eco‐innovation.
Maria Cristina Zaccone, Matteo Pedrini
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of physician shift work implementation on mortality and length of stay in an emergency and critical care center: an interrupted time series analysis

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research
Background Shift-based physician work systems are increasingly being introduced in emergency and critical care settings in Japan. However, evidence regarding their effects on patient outcomes—particularly mortality and intensive care unit (ICU) length of
Ryuta Nakae   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Nurse staffing levels, missed vital signs and mortality in hospitals: retrospective longitudinal observational study

open access: yesHealth Services and Delivery Research, 2018
Background: Low nurse staffing levels are associated with adverse patient outcomes from hospital care, but the causal relationship is unclear. Limited capacity to observe patients has been hypothesised as a causal mechanism.
Peter Griffiths   +16 more
doaj   +1 more source

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