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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Service contracts"”.
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Mechanism Design Theory for Service Contracts
… for designing and optimizing maintenance service contracts through the application of mechanism design theory. When offering a contract to its customer, the maintenance service provider seeks to specify contract terms - such as price, service features and incentives - that maximize the …
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An Investigation into the Demand for Service Contracts
… into the determinants of demand for service contracts on new vehicles. In the first chapter, I characterize the consumer decision to buy a service contract with a discrete choice model. Hypotheses and conjectures are tested empirically using survey data from new vehicle buyers. The …
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Consumers' perceptions of extended service contracts: an empirical analysis
… between buyers and non-buyers of an extended service contract according to eight groups of variables, and (2) to develop a profile of consumers most likely to purchase extended service contracts. A mail survey was conducted from April 1993 through May 1993 with a randomly selected sample of …
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Performance measurement in facilities management - the case of outsourced service contracts
… Management (FM). This thesis focuses on FM serviceperformance and specifically addresses an identified gap in knowledge about measurementof performance in outsourced service contracts in FM.Conceptual and practical performance measurement literatures were assessed in a criticalreview with …
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Economic efficiency in transit service contracts : the role of contract structure
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1993.
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Analysis of overpricing of maintenance service contracts awarded via the 8(a)program and by formal advertising.
… Business Administration (SBA) to enter into contracts with other government procuring agencies for goods and services. The SBA subcontracts the work on a sole source basis to small businesses that are owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals. Overpricing of …
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Satisfaction with and the importance of food service management companies performance in hospitals as compared to elements found in management proposals
… in the United States utilize management contracts for the food service operation, and other hospital administrators are contemplating their use. Despite the rapid growth of contracting within hospital food service, very little is known about the performance of contractors. This research …
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Constructing communities: living and working in the Royal Navy, c.1830-1860
… from the 1830s to the early days of continuous service contracts. With the coming of peace, the Royal Navy had dropped rapidly in size, from nearly 950 ships in 1815 to 128 by 1821, and relied entirely on volunteers to man these ships. It nonetheless remained in operation all over the world as …
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Determining the best options for facilities management (FM) service delivery in UK shopping centres
There are a number of FM service delivery models ranging from in-house provision to total outsourcing, operating in the UK market. The portfolio of FM services and the range of options relating to the various combinations of service delivery have sparked many discussions and debates over the merits …
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A Preliminary Study into the Contracting Out of Services by Municipalities
The contracting out of services, by municipalities, while not quite a new phenomenon, is still relatively new, that it provides a rich source of study for public administration scholars and students. Some of the arguments that proponents of privatization make, are that: contracting out is more …
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Farm-level bureaucrats in action (and inaction) : the distribution of veterinary services in Laos and Cambodia
… govern contractual exchange between veterinary service providers and farmers in Laos and Cambodia. I hypothesize that the negotiation, implementation, and enforcement of informal service contracts entail economic and social transaction costs that can distort provider incentives, thereby …
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Services in Manufacturing Industries: Contributions to Quality and Competition
Motivated by the increasingly important role of services in manufacturing industries, this dissertation examines implications of this trend for quality management and competition by firms engaged in the production of joint product-service offerings. Broadly defined, we study the following research …
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Decision models for optimizing fuel enrichment services under long-term fixed-commitment contracts
… effective strategies for dealing with enrichment service contracts. Specifically, three decision models are developed to analyze the 18 month decision points of the Long-Term Fixed-Commitment Contract for ten contracting years. The first model indicates ERDA's current method for acquiring …
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Supply Chain Relationships and Refurbishing in the Healthcare Supply Chain
… indicates that when a buyer uses a procurement service provider, such as a GPO, the buying organization can end up in a dependence trap; An HCO’s dependence on the GPO positively affects the HCO’s dependence on the OEM. Furthermore, an HCO’s dependence on a GPO and on an OEM …
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Assessment of City of Austin Social Service Contracting Practices
… to examine all facets of government social service contracting practices. A preliminary framework is developed and utilized as a tool to analyze the performance of the City of Austin’s Health and Human Services Department’s (HHSD) social service contracting processes. Interview questions are …
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A Contracts-Based Model for managing web services evolution
Service-based systems need to be designed in such a way that they are able to accommodate the volatility of the environment in which they operate. Failure to evolve service-based systems will result in service providers losing their competitive edge. Additionally, failure to evolve these systems …
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Naujų EB direktyvų viešųjų pirkimų srityje įgyvendinimo problematika Lietuvos Respublikoje /
… in the water, energy, transport and postal services sectors, and Directive 2004/18/EC coordinating the procedures for the award of public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts. These directives set the simpler and more straightforward framework for legal …
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Installed base information: Ensuring customer value and profitability after the sale
… records on their sales, production, deliveries, service contracts, and service jobs, the data in the often function-specific information systems remain incompatible, and an overview of the installed base is missing. The resulting situation resembles that of manufacturing before ERP systems were …
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Dynamic Fleet Maintenance Management
… and the balance of maintenance costs and service risks. The applicability of the approach is demonstrated through a case study using a real industrial scenario of a fleet of high speed trains from Talgo in Spain. The thesis concludes that the proposed approach presents a holistic solution …
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Oil and gas contracts: a law in context analysis using Nigeria as a case study
… Ultimately, it is the exploration licensing contracts that states use to implement oil exploration and exploitation policies. The present research therefore seeks to look at the dynamics of the legal and regulatory framework of the oil and gas industry focussing on its everchanging contract …
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