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Challenges of medical commodity availability in public and private health care facilities in the Upper East Region of Ghana: a patient-centered perspective

BMC Health Services Research, 2023
This article is a patient-centered comparison of medical ccommodities availability in public and private health care facilities in the Upper East (UER) of Ghana to determine if significant differences existed.
Oswald Atiga, Jackie Walters, Noleen Pisa   +2 more
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Covid-19 customer experiences of self-service technology across pharmacies in South Africa

Cogent Social Sciences, 2023
Using time-series data over a period of twelve months, Atlas.ti was employed to analyse the data extracted from Hello Peter, a South African online customer review and business platform, to assess Covid-19 customer reactions to e-services across South ...
Sebonkile Thaba, Lunga Jacobs, Adrien Ilumbe Laby   +2 more
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Personalized Recommendation Classification Model of Students’ Social Well-being Based on Personality Trait Determinants Using Machine Learning Algorithms

Journal of ICT, 2023
The global trend of student social well-being has steadily declined in recent years. As a result, the need for a personalized recommendation classification model that can accurately assess and identify the individual student’s social well-being has ...
Nur Atiqah Rochin Demong, Melissa Shahrom, Ramita Abdul Rahim, Emi Normalina Omar, Mornizan Yahya   +4 more
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Logistics outsourcing and performance of manufacturing small and medium-sized enterprises in Nairobi

The Southern African Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management, 2018
Background: Logistics outsourcing has been accepted as a strategy through which small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can access the logistics capabilities they lack internally at a lower cost.
Joash Mageto, Gerrie Prinsloo, Rose Luke
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Working Capital Behavior of Firms during an Economic Downturn: An Analysis of the Financial Crisis Era

International Journal of Financial Studies, 2022
In times of crisis, cash and liquidity play an essential role. This paper analyzes the working capital measures over the course of a business cycle. We examine (1) how companies behave in economic downturns regarding their working capital components and (
Erik Hofmann, Juuso Töyli, Tomi Solakivi   +2 more
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The extent of logistics outsourcing among small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises in Nairobi

Journal of Transport and Supply Chain Management, 2018
Background: Small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises (manufacturing SMEs) can facilitate economic growth and development by creating employment and spurring economic activities at low levels of the economy.
Joash Mageto, Gerrie Prinsloo, Rose Luke
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Sustainable freight transport in South Africa:Domestic intermodal solutions

Journal of Transport and Supply Chain Management, 2011
Due to the rapid deregulation of freight transport in South Africa two decades ago, and low historical investment in rail (with resultant poor service delivery), an integrated alternative to road and rail competition was never developed.
Jan H. Havenga, Zane Simpson, Pieter F. Fourie, Anneke de Bod   +3 more
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Segmentation of health-care consumers: psychological determinants of subjective health and other person-related variables

BMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background There is an observable, growing trend toward tailoring support programs – in addition to medical treatment – more closely to individuals to help improve patients’ health status.
Sjaak Bloem, Joost Stalpers, Edward A. G. Groenland, Kees van Montfort, W. Fred van Raaij, Karla de Rooij   +5 more
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Cross-departmental collaboration in strategic sourcing as a catalyst for supplier development: The case of Eskom

Acta Commercii, 2017
Objective: The objective was to analyse the integration of and collaboration between strategic sourcing and supplier development at Eskom, South Africa’s primary electricity supplier, and to determine how strategic sourcing can be a catalyst for supplier
Mzoxolo E. Mbiko, Tatenda Mbara, Elana Swanepoel   +2 more
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Reflecting on theory development in sustainable supply chain management

Cleaner Logistics and Supply Chain, 2022
Sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) emerged as a niche topic around 20 years ago but moved into the mainstream. This paper revisits some of the conceptual developments of the field-building on Seuring and Müller (2008). We draw upon this framework
Stefan Seuring, Sadaf Aman, Biman Darshana Hettiarachchi, Felipe Alexandre de Lima, Lara Schilling, Jayani Ishara Sudusinghe   +5 more
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