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Publication date: 28 February 2020

Timothy J. Dickey

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Library Dementia Services
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ISBN: 978-1-83867-691-9

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Publication date: 20 August 2018

Rashmi Malhotra, D. K. Malhotra, Elizabeth Mariotz and Raymond R. Poteau

In this chapter, we evaluate the dollar amount spent on advertising relative to sales, profit margin, and growth rates to study the effectiveness of advertising in today’s retail…

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In this chapter, we evaluate the dollar amount spent on advertising relative to sales, profit margin, and growth rates to study the effectiveness of advertising in today’s retail environment, and whether it leads directly to higher sales and increased profits affording positive earnings for the investor. The study illustrates the use of data envelopment analysis (DEA) technique to benchmark 16 apparel firms to evaluate the effectiveness of their advertising dollars on the sales, profit margin, growth, return on assets (ROA), return on equity (ROE), and return on investment (ROI).

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Publication date: 6 December 2007

Jos L.T. Blank and Vivian G. Valdmanis

Hospitals worldwide command the majority of any countries’ health care budget. Reasons for these higher costs include the aging of the population requiring more intensive health…

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Hospitals worldwide command the majority of any countries’ health care budget. Reasons for these higher costs include the aging of the population requiring more intensive health care treatments provided in hospitals, the relatively high costs of labor in this labor intensive industry and payment systems that may encourage inefficient behavior on the part of hospital managers and physicians. Governments are seeking to instruments to mitigate this cost rise. Liberalizing hospital markets, deregulation, changing budget systems and changing ownership are only a few examples of attempts to make hospitals more efficient.

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Evaluating Hospital Policy and Performance: Contributions from Hospital Policy and Productivity Research
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ISBN: 978-0-7623-1453-9

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Library Dementia Services
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ISBN: 978-1-83867-691-9

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Library Dementia Services
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ISBN: 978-1-83867-691-9

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Stories and Lessons from the World's Leading Opera, Orchestra Librarians, and Music Archivists, Volume 2: Europe and Asia
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ISBN: 978-1-80262-659-9

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Library Dementia Services
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ISBN: 978-1-83867-691-9

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Library Dementia Services
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-83867-691-9

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Library Dementia Services
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ISBN: 978-1-83867-691-9

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Publication date: 6 December 2007

Jos L.T. Blank and Vivian G. Valdmanis

It is well recognized that hospitals do not operate in a competitive market typically observed in the economics literature, but rather alternative measures of performance must be…

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It is well recognized that hospitals do not operate in a competitive market typically observed in the economics literature, but rather alternative measures of performance must be developed. In other words, health policy analysts, managers, and decision-makers cannot rely on determining efficiency via the typical profit maximizing/cost minimizing firm but develop techniques that address the issues germane to hospital productivity. What has been presented in this book demonstrates the research in both productivity and policy that must attend to this anomaly. In this introductory section, we briefly summarize the theoretical underpinnings of this book.

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Evaluating Hospital Policy and Performance: Contributions from Hospital Policy and Productivity Research
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ISBN: 978-0-7623-1453-9

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