Forecasting the medium-term performance of restructured tourism firms with an adaptive integrated predictor

One of the main barriers to implementing SUDS is concern about performance and maintenance costs since there are few well-documented case-studies. This paper summarizes studies conducted between 2000 and 2008 of the performance and maintenance of four SUDS management trains constructed in 1999 at the Hopwood Park Motorway Service Area, central England. Assessments were made of the wildlife value and sedimentation in the SUDS ponds, the hydraulic performance of the coach park management train, water quality in all management trains, and soil/sediment composition in the grass filter strip, interceptor and ponds. Maintenance procedures and costs were also reviewed. Results demonstrate the benefits of a management train approach over individual SUDS units for flow attenuation, water treatment, spillage containment and maintenance. Peak flows, pond sediment depth and contaminant concentrations in sediment and water decreased through the coach park management train. Of the 2007 annual landscape budget of £15,000 for the whole site, the maintenance costs for SUDS only accounted for £2,500 compared to £4,000 for conventional drainage structures. Furthermore, since sediment has been attenuated in the management trains, the cost of sediment removal after the recommended period of three years was only £554 and, if the design is not compromised, less frequent removal will be required in future.

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Medium-term performance of new residue hydrogenation catalysts

Focus on Catalysts ◽

10.1016/s1351-4180(04)00305-8 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 2004 (5) ◽

pp. 5

Keyword(s):

Medium Term ◽

Hydrogenation Catalysts ◽

Term Performance

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Medium-term performance of scleral contact lenses in irregular and healthy corneas: Results of visual acuity, symptomatology and halometry

Contact Lens and Anterior Eye ◽

10.1016/j.clae.2018.04.027 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 41 ◽

pp. S88-S89

Author(s):

Rute J. Macedo-de-Araújo ◽

Eef van der Worp ◽

Ana Amorim-de-Sousa ◽

Ron Beerten ◽

José M. González-Méijome

Keyword(s):

Visual Acuity ◽

Contact Lenses ◽

Medium Term ◽

Term Performance

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THE EFFECTS OF SHORT-TERM AND LONG-TERM ORIENTED MANAGERIAL BEHAVIOR ON MEDIUM-TERM FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: LONGITUDINAL EVIDENCE FROM EUROPE

Journal of Business Economics and Management ◽

10.3846/16111699.2012.703965 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

pp. 386-402 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Matthias F. Brauer

Keyword(s):

Financial Performance ◽

Corporate Performance ◽

Chief Executive ◽

Well Being ◽

Managerial Behavior ◽

Medium Term ◽

Short Term ◽

Ceo Tenure ◽

Term Performance

Short-term orientation aimed at maximizing quarterly results at the expense of long-term corporate performance and survival has become severely criticized. In the face of continuously decreasing chief executive officer (CEO) tenure, CEOs, however, seem to have few incentives to embrace long-term oriented behaviour. Instead, the question of foremost importance to self-interested CEOs is whether short-term orientation already harms financial performance in the three to four years of their own tenure, and whether CEOs stand a chance of benefiting from long-term orientation while still in office. CEOs thus face an intriguing ethical dilemma between optimizing their financial pay-off within their own tenure and securing the longer-term well-being of the corporation, its employees, and other major stakeholders. Consequently, our longitudinal study focuses on the medium-term performance implications of short-term and long-term orientation in Europe's largest publicly listed companies. Results indicate that short-term orientation negatively impacts on medium term performance while long-term oriented behavior is positively associated with corporate performance in the medium term. Our findings advance managerial myopia theory, and provide insights into one of the most central ethical dilemmas faced by corporate executives today.

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Strategy-Focused Agile Transformation: A Case Study

Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming – Workshops - Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-58858-8_17 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 164-172

Author(s):

Helen Sharp ◽

Katie Taylor

Keyword(s):

Performance Monitoring ◽

Interview Data ◽

Medium Term ◽

Short Term ◽

Time Horizons ◽

Charitable Organisation ◽

Strategic Agility ◽

Future Vision ◽

Term Performance

Abstract Strategic agility enables an organisation to sense and seize opportunities, manage uncertainty and adapt to changes. This paper presents one case study of a traditional charitable organisation taking a strategy-focused approach to agile transformation. Interview data was collected over a 13-month period through interviews at different stages and with different members of the transformation team and Heads of Department. This case study illustrates the challenges faced in such a transformation, and shows that strategic agility requires different time horizons to co-exist: a future vision, a medium term set of objectives and a short term performance monitoring perspective.

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Caribbean Quarterly Economic Bulletin: Volume 10: Issue 3, January 2022

10.18235/0003914 ◽

2022 ◽

Author(s):

David Rosenblatt ◽

Henry Mooney ◽

Antonio García Zaballos ◽

Cloe Ortiz de Mendívil ◽

Ariel McCaskie ◽

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Keyword(s):

Economic Benefits ◽

Economic Bulletin ◽

Medium Term ◽

Digital Infrastructure ◽

Advanced Economies ◽

The Caribbean ◽

Long Term Performance ◽

Term Performance ◽

Productivity Gains

This edition reviews the long-term performance of economic growth and productivity in the region. It then draws on research from the Inter-American Development Banks Connectivity, Markets, and Finance Division that estimates how much investment in digital infrastructure is needed for countries across Latin America and the Caribbean to reach the levels of advanced economies. This research also estimates both the potential economic benefits associated with that investment and its costs, highlighting the potentially large multipliers associated with closing digital infrastructure gaps. The highlights of the analysis are as follows. It is estimated that closing the digital access gap between Caribbean economies and members countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) could potentially increase the regions GDP by about 6 to 12 percent over the medium term, depending on the country. These gains are multiples of the estimated costs, ranging from about 2 times to nearly 50 times those estimated costs. Productivity gains represent about 80 percent of the estimated improvements in GDP. As is typical with the Caribbean Quarterly Bulletin, the Regional Overview is followed by country sections that provide more detailed analysis for each of the countries covered.

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