Article Title Page Benchmarking green logistics performance with a composite index Author Details: Kwok Hung Lau School of Business Information Technology and Logistics College of Business Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University Level 17‚ 239 Bourke Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia Corresponding author: Kwok Hung Lau charles.lau@rmit.edu.au Please check this box if you do not wish your email address to be published NOTE: affiliations should appear as the following: Department (if applicable);
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Benchmarking‚ the process of identifying‚ learning‚ and adapting outstanding practices and processes from another organization to help improve performance‚ is important within an organization to assess strengths and weaknesses and to determine where changes can be made to benefit the organization (Roberts‚ 2008). By benchmarking‚ the hospital may be able to determine that other hospitals have completed registeration
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Are European hotel restaurants problematic or instrumental in creating value? In Western Europe the majority of the hoteliers and other stakeholders involved with them agree that hotel restaurants are a liability because of the very low profit margins and the difficulty of making a return on investment. This is without even mentioning all the operational problems inherent to this type of activity. It is true that in Europe hotel restaurants are subject to the same constraints as other restaurants
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How could benchmarking be effectively used to achieve competitive advantage? Please provide an example. Starbucks Even Starbucks has to Benchmark Considering it’s benches are always full of hipsters sipping their half-caf low-fat moccachinos‚ you might think that Starbucks would have no need for benchmarking‚ as many of its benches already have permanent rear-shaped impressions from long-time customers. But that’s not the case at all. In this great case study in DC Velocity‚ we find out
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Corporate governance bmg718 | Corporate Governance Benchmarking Project | BDO LLP UK | | Melanie Lloyd‚ B00532809 | 5/7/2013 | Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2 2. Theories of Corporate Governance 6 3. BDO Governance in Practice 12 4. Conclusion 15 5. Bibliography 16 1. Introduction 1.1. Evolution of Corporate Governance There are a number of ways of defining ‘corporate governance’; operationally it is considered to be “the process by which companies are directed
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Subject: Human resource can be an instrumental in helping a company to create competitive advantages. Ans: If we want to proof human resource as an instrument for gaining competitive advantages in a company we should focus on two things‚ one is competitive advantage and another is human resource management process. We know if any side of a company is more efficient than other companies in between a same industry is called competitive advantage. Competitive advantage is something that means
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forces. The financial sector would be used as a means of distributing investment funds‚ whilst also regulating accretion by pursuing more sound monetary policies. ‘Competition and Credit Control’ was designed to give the control of money a more instrumental role in economic policy. Heath further transferred responsibilities to market forces with interest rates and allocation of money being determined by market forces. Prices were rising by 7% and wages earnings double. Still in a fixed exchange
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Low-Background Muon and Neutron Benchmarking for Applications in Ultra-Rare Event Searches John Greavu‚ Mentor: Professor Priscilla Cushman Purpose The primary purpose of this study is to measure‚ to a high precision‚ the muon and neutron backgrounds experienced at the Low Background Counting Facility (Fig. 1) in the Soudan Underground Laboratory. An active muon veto shield lining most of the interior‚ in addition to a neutron detector—the Neutron Multiplicity Meter—in the facility‚ allow for benchmark
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Mazzini‚ Cavour‚ and Garibaldi: Opposing Views and Instrumental Personalities Europe in the mid-nineteenth century was a tumultuous continent surging with popular movements. In particular‚ there was a notable increase in nationalism‚ not only amongst countries that were united but as well as in regions of divided states that were bound by a shared language or culture. Perhaps the greatest examples of nationalism during this time were the movements for unification among the Germanic states as well
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Quantitative Validation of Rating Models for Low Default Portfolios through Benchmarking The new capital adequacy framework (Basel II) is one of the most fiercely debated topics the financial sector has seen in the recent past. Following a consultation process that lasted several years‚ the regulations formally took effect on January 1‚ 2007. The advanced approaches (the advanced internal ratings-based‚ or A-IRB‚ approach and the advanced measurement approach‚ or AMA) are scheduled to become operational
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