QUALITATIVE COMPARISON ANALYSIS: AN EXAMPLE ANALYSIS OF CLINICAL DIRECTORATES AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

2015 ◽  
pp. 295-308
Author(s):  
Malcolm J Beynon ◽  
Aoife McDermott ◽  
Mary A Keating
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Comparison Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Comparison ◽  
Clinical Directorates

scholarly journals Efficiency Advantages and Incentive Mechanism of PPPs: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis under the Chinese Scenario

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaowei Dong ◽  
Yali Du ◽  
Xianhua Wu
Keyword(s):  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Necessary Conditions ◽  
Qualitative Comparative Analysis ◽  
Process Efficiency ◽  
Comparison Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Comparison ◽  
Allocation Efficiency ◽  
The Public ◽  
Individual Effort ◽  
Bidding Process

Based on the PPP efficiency system which consists of allocation efficiency, process efficiency, and individual efficiency, we use qualitative comparison analysis of fuzzy sets to study the efficiency advantages of the public-private partnership under the Chinese scenario. The findings are as follows: (1) like public-private partnerships, Chinese-style PPPs have also failed to achieve cooperation. (2) High allocation efficiency can be achieved if competition in bidding processes can be ensured; when bidding procedures cannot be guaranteed to compete, alternatives to high allocation efficiency are either privatized or allocated directly to enterprises that can enable economies of scale; individual effort is a source of allocation efficiency. (3) Competition and economies of scale are necessary conditions for high process efficiency. The private sector’s ownership of assets is a sufficient condition for high process efficiency. (4) High individual efficiency can be achieved if individual efforts can be ensured, and high individual efficiency can also be achieved by the competition of bidding procedures or economies of scale when it is impossible to ensure high levels of individual effort. Privatization is the perfect incentive for high individual efficiency when the competition in the bidding process, individual efforts, and economies of scale cannot be guaranteed.

scholarly journals Path of Smart Servitization and Transformation in the Textile Industry: A Case Study of Various Regions in China

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (21) ◽  
pp. 11680
Author(s):  
Lei Shen ◽  
Cong Sun ◽  
Muhammad Ali
Keyword(s):  
Fuzzy Set ◽  
Textile Industry ◽  
Input Output ◽  
Comparison Analysis ◽  
High Input ◽  
Geographical Differences ◽  
Output Data ◽  
Qualitative Comparison ◽  
Economic Agglomeration

This study uses 31 provinces and municipalities from China’s textile industry as a research sample and divides the region into four geographical areas: eastern, central, western, and northeastern. It quantified smart servitization in the textile industry using input–output data and applied the fuzzy set qualitative comparison analysis to identify potential pathways for promoting smart servitization in the textile industry. The study’s findings indicate that there are significant geographical differences in the level of smart servitization in the textile industry across China. Moreover, the transformation and development of the textile industry require the co-operation of numerous factors, and the Chinese textile industry’s transformation paths can be summarized as “high-input” path, “technology—aggregation” path, “open” path, and “economic-agglomeration” path.

Process and Structure: Resource Management and the Development of Sub-Unit Organisational Structure

1992 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Packwood ◽  
Justin Keen ◽  
Martin Buxton
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Organisational Structure ◽  
Disciplinary Structure ◽  
Hospital Units ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Experiment Unit ◽  
Organisation Structure ◽  
Clinical Directorates

Resource Management (RM) requires hospital units to manage their work in new ways, and the new management processes affect, and are affected by, organisation structure. This paper is concerned with these effects, reporting on the basis of a three-year evaluation of the national RM experiment that was commissioned by the DH. After briefly indicating some of the major characteristics of the RM process, the two main types of unit structures existing in the pilot sites at the beginning of the experiment, unit disciplinary structure and clinical directorates, are analysed. At the end of the experiment, while clinical directorates had become more popular, another variant, clinical grouping, had replaced the unit disciplinary structure. Both types of structure represent a movement towards sub-unit organisation, bringing the work and interests of the service providers and unit managers closer together. Their properties are likewise analysed and their implications, particularly in terms of training and organisational development (OD), ate then considered. The paper concludes by considering the causes for these structural changes, which, in the immediate time-scale, appear to owe as much to the NHS Review as to RM.

The Contribution of Phonon-Scattered Electrons to High-Resolution Electron Micrographs of Crystals

1990 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-63
Author(s):  
H. Kohl
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Spherical Aberration ◽  
High Resolution Electron Microscopy ◽  
Static Potential ◽  
Qualitative Comparison ◽  
The Past ◽  
Resolution Electron ◽  
High Resolution Images ◽  
High Resolution Electron Micrographs ◽  
Extract Information

High-Resolution Electron Microscopy is able to determine structures of crystals and interfaces with a spatial resolution of somewhat less than 2 Å. As the image is strongly dependent on instrumental parameters, notably the defocus and the spherical aberration, the interpretation of micrographs necessitates a comparison with calculated images. Whereas one has often been content with a qualitative comparison of theory with experiment in the past, one is currently striving for quantitative procedures to extract information from the images [1,2]. For the calculations one starts by assuming a static potential, thus neglecting inelastic scattering processes.We shall confine the discussion to periodic specimens. All electrons, which have only been elastically scattered, are confined to very few directions, the Bragg spots. In-elastically scattered electrons, however, can be found in any direction. Therefore the influence of inelastic processes on the elastically (= Bragg) scattered electrons can be described as an attenuation [3]. For the calculation of high-resolution images this procedure would be correct only if we had an imaging energy filter capable of removing all phonon-scattered electrons. This is not realizable in practice. We are therefore forced to include the contribution of the phonon-scattered electrons.

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