PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT IN MILITARY PROVISIONS: THE CASE OF RETAIL STORES OF TAIWAN'S GENERAL WELFARE SERVICE MINISTRY

2007 ◽  
Vol 24 (03) ◽  
pp. 313-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHYAN YANG ◽  
JAMES TSUNG-CHENG WANG ◽  
WEN-MIN LU
Keyword(s):  
Operating Efficiency ◽  
Retail Stores ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
National Defense ◽  
Welfare Service ◽  
General Welfare ◽  
Operational Management ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
Dea Method ◽  
The Military

This paper aims to explore the operating efficiency and the benchmark-learning roadmap of the military retail stores for Taiwan's General Welfare Service Ministry (GWSM). This study also presents an extension to the data envelopment analysis (DEA) method, by incorporating the traditional DEA, stratification DEA, attractiveness measure, and progress measure for assessing the performance of 31 retail stores of GWSM. The assessment can assist the Ministry of National Defense to improve the operational management of GWSM and to help the military retail stores on better delivering and efficient service to soldiers, veterans, and their dependents. The potential applications and strengths of DEA in assessing the military retail stores are highlighted.

Economic Growth and Defence Spending: An Efficiency Analysis of Romania’s Conscription Suspension

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-51
Author(s):  
Alin Teodor Huseraș ◽  
Andrei Ciprian Spînu
Keyword(s):  
Graphical Analysis ◽  
Defense Spending ◽  
National Defense ◽  
Effective Management ◽  
External Funding ◽  
The Public ◽  
Defence Spending ◽  
Key Sectors ◽  
The Military ◽  
Theoretical Issues

AbstractNational defense is one of the key sectors responsible for maintaining national security, being considered at the same time an element of great importance and strict necessity of the public sector. The performance of defense functions and missions are closely linked to the military capabilities of this sector, which in turn depend on the budget for defense spending. This paper deals with some theoretical issues in the economic field of defense, regarding the size of defense spending in GDP and their social effects. It is also trying to carry out an analysis on the efficiency versus inefficiency in the use of defense resources, to finance the two types of recruitment systems, namely: by conscription or voluntary will. In order to be able to achieve the above, graphical analysis methods and calculation dermination method were used. The efficiency of spending public funds depends on both objective factors such as: distribution of a certain share of GDP to a certain area; attracting internal and external funding, as well as subjective factors, like: allocating resources to certain categories of expenses; allocating resources to certain defense programs; effective management of these resources by the competent structures. Therefore, for a program to be considered effective, it must meet the requirements of the collective needs of society, be rationally implemented and be sustainable.

Defensive Deterrence

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yishai Beer
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Practical Problem ◽  
Strategic Thinking ◽  
National Defense ◽  
Global Security ◽  
Defense Strategy ◽  
Essential Component ◽  
The Law ◽  
Compliance With The Law ◽  
The Military

This chapter deals with the lack of coherency between strategic reality—which uses deterrence as an essential strategic tool—and the prevailing law. Deterrence is a tool for enforcing compliance with the law; it promotes the containment of potential conflicts. It is pivotal in strategic thinking and, in many cases, an essential component of the national-defense strategy of law-abiding states. But although deterrence is central to the management of global security, in current international law deterrence considerations are perceived with suspicion and mistrust. It is perceived as an unlawful punitive measure. The lack of consensus on lawful deterrence, however, might create a vacuum that invites aggressors and transgressors. This chapter offers normative suggestions for introducing defensive deterrence and overcoming the practical problem of putting it into practice within the current contours of the law, by using the military professionalism criterion.

scholarly journals Selecting Suitable, Green Port Crane Equipment for International Commercial Ports

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 6801
Author(s):  
Guo-Ya Gan ◽  
Hsuan-Shih Lee ◽  
Yu-Jwo Tao ◽  
Chang-Shu Tu
Keyword(s):  
Data Envelopment Analysis ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Green Energy ◽  
Programming Approach ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Container Handling ◽  
Dea Method ◽  
Green Port ◽  
Large Container ◽  
Gantry Cranes

Responding to the increasing global need for environmental protection, a green port balances economic vibrancy with environmental protection. However, because exhaust emissions (e.g., CO2 or sulfide) are difficult to monitor around ports, data on such emissions are often incomplete, which hinders research on this topic. The present study aimed to fill this gap in this topic. To remedy this problem, this study formulated a new data envelopment analysis (DEA) method for collecting CO2 emissions data at their source. This method was applied to collect real-world operating data from a large container-handling company in Taiwan. Specifically, we provide a real example using a novel green energy index to account for undesirable outputs. Our main objective was to formulate two methods that combine: (1) data envelopment analysis based on a modified slack-based measure, and (2) a multi-choice goal programming approach. The contributions of this paper included the finding that rubber-tired gantry cranes are the greenest and should be used in ports. Finally, our findings aid port managers in selecting port equipment that provides the best balance between environmental protection and profitability.

scholarly journals Benchmarking—A Way of Finding Risk Factors in Business Performance

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 221
Author(s):  
Jarmila Horváthová ◽  
Martina Mokrišová ◽  
Mária Vrábliková
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Data Envelopment Analysis ◽  
Heat Supply ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Performance Factors ◽  
Best Value ◽  
Target Values ◽  
Dea Method ◽  
Comparison Of The Results

The purpose of this study was to emphasize that the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method is an important benchmarking tool which provides necessary information for improving business performance. To fulfil the abovementioned goal, we used a sample of 48 Slovak companies involved in the field of heat supply. As their position in the economic and social environment of the country is essential, considerable attention should be paid to improving their performance. In addition to the DEA method, we applied the Best Value Method (BVM). We found that DEA is a highly important benchmarking tool, as it provides benchmarks for units that have problems with performance and helps us to reveal risk performance factors. The DEA method also allows us to determine target values of indicators. The originality of this paper is in its comparison of the results of the BVM and the DEA methods.

Sophistication of Taiwan High School Military Training and Education System of Teacher Education Research

2011 ◽  
Vol 393-395 ◽  
pp. 288-291
Author(s):  
Min Chuan Huang ◽  
Chao Yen Wu ◽  
Jang Ruey Tzeng
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Military Training ◽  
National Defense ◽  
Training And Education ◽  
Demand And Supply ◽  
Teacher Training Programs ◽  
The Military

This study sought to resolve the current imbalance of demand and supply of the military instructors on the campus in Taiwan. Having witnessed the importance of a sustainable supply of certified military instructors to support the all-people-defense-education, the study first reviewed two versions of teacher training programs carried out by the Ministry of Defense and normative colleges. After exposing the weaknesses of these two versions of selection practice, this study continued with its recommendation. It is hoped that with its suggested concept of building partnership via outsourcing, professional identity of the military instructors can be elevated and ascertained. Specific contributions of this study are: the National Defense Education Division made sophisticated system of teacher education and teacher key capabilities. Project commissioned by the National Defense Education recruitment agency approach teacher education ideas

Rwanda: Civil–Military Relations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Jowell
Keyword(s):  
Central Africa ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
National Defense ◽  
Mass Violence ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Civil Military Relations ◽  
Practical Experiences ◽  
The One ◽  
Military Relations ◽  
The Military

The army has been a central part of Rwanda’s political system from the precolonial period until the early 21st century and is intrinsically part of the construction and politics of the state. Civil–military relations in Rwanda demonstrate not only the central features of transitioning a rebel group to a national defense sector but also how some states construct their armed forces after a period of mass violence. Since the civil war and genocide in the early 1990s, the Rwandan military has been the primary actor in politics, the economy, and state building as well as in regional wars in central Africa and the Great Lakes region. Practical experiences of guerrilla insurgency and conflict in Uganda and Rwanda, postconflict military integration, and the intertwining of political and economic agendas with the ruling party have shaped civil–military relations in Rwanda and have been central to how the Rwandan defense sector functions. Contemporary Rwandan civil–military relations center around the two elements of service delivery and control, which has resulted in the development of an effective and technocratic military in terms of remit and responsibilities on the one hand, and the creation of a politicized force of coercion on the other hand. The military in Rwanda therefore reflects the pressures and dynamics of the wider state and cannot be separated from it. The Rwandan army is thus a “political army” and is part and parcel of the political structures that oversee and govern the Rwandan state.

Research on Technology Integration Innovation Platform Performance Evaluation

2013 ◽  
Vol 423-426 ◽  
pp. 2261-2265
Author(s):  
Cheng Qiang Liu ◽  
Guo Ping Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Technology Integration ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Allocation Of Resources ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Input Output ◽  
Correct Evaluation ◽  
Output Performance ◽  
Dea Method ◽  
Performance Analyze ◽  
Innovation Platform

The performance of the technology integration innovation platform shows that the group's overall value creates result, the correct evaluation can help the platform to optimize the better allocation of resources, to achieve better output effect. We use data envelopment (DEA) method based on clearing connotation of the technology integration innovation platform performance, analyze the technology integration innovation platform input-output performance, summarize the analysis method and analyze the example simply, produce reference to the technology integration innovation platform.

scholarly journals Design of a Symmetrical Quad-rotor Biplane Tail-Sitter Aircraft without Control Surfaces and Experimental Verification

2018 ◽  
Vol 151 ◽  
pp. 04009
Author(s):  
Hongyu Wang ◽  
Xun Zhao ◽  
Hui Bai ◽  
Cunyue Lu ◽  
Baomin Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Attitude Control ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
Mode Transition ◽  
Yaw Control ◽  
Flight Mode ◽  
Vtol Uav ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
The Military ◽  
Control Surfaces

This paper presents the design of a symmetrical quad-rotor biplane tail-sitter VTOL UAV (Vertical Take-off and Landing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) which is composed of four rotors and two symmetrically mounted fixed wings. This aircraft achieves high accuracy in the attitude control and smooth flight mode transition with four rotors rather than the conventional VTOL UAVs using control surfaces. The proposal of angled rotor mounting is adopted to address the issue of insufficient yaw control authority. The layout of symmetrically mounted fixed wings makes the aircraft have capability of rapid bidirectional flight mode transition to improve maneuverability. To validate the performance of the aircraft, simulation and flight experiments are both implemented. These results show that the aircraft has a rapid yaw response under condition of the stable attitude control. In comparative experiment, it is shown that the aircraft is more flexible than other similar configuration of aircrafts. This symmetrical quad-rotor biplane tail-sitter VTOL UAV will have a wide range of potential applications in the military and civilian areas due to its superior performance..

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