scholarly journals Distinguished Lecture on Economics in Government: What We Don't Know Could Hurt Us: Some Reflections on the Measurement of Economic Activity

2005 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 3-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharine G Abraham

The routine production of U.S. economic statistics dates back to the early part of the twentieth century. But in recent decades, as services output has continued to expand a system of economic statistics that had been designed during the manufacturing era began to seem increasingly outdated. Over the past decade, the statistical agencies have done yeoman work to expand the availability and quality of service sector statistics, but the task is far from completed. Moreover, the traditional accounting framework for economic statistics has focused almost exclusively on market transactions. Looking ahead, more comprehensive measurement of productive activities, however they may be organized, must be a priority.

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natália de Almeida Ferraz ◽  
Fagner José Coutinho de Melo ◽  
Taciana de Barros Jerônimo ◽  
André Philippi Gonzaga de Albuquerque ◽  
Denise Dumke de Medeiros

The justified purpose of the theme: The number of companies in the service sector has been increasing steadily in recent years. At the same time, consumers are increasingly demanding quality of services offered by the various providers in the market. Customer satisfaction is fundamental to the success of these organizations, and for this reason, the adoption of specific techniques for assessing quality of services is necessary. Purpose: this article aims to develop a framework to support hotel management. Methodology/Design: The study used an adaptation of the classic SERVQUAL model for the evaluation of customer expectations and perceptions, enhanced by the QUESC model, which is an instrument specifically applied to quality evaluation in fitness services, in order to obtain a more complete and targeted approach. The survey was conducted with 206 customers on the quality of service in the hotel's fitness center. Results and Originality: With the application of the model, we found that SERVQUAL was insufficient to evaluate customer satisfaction since the highest rated items pointed to the gaps coming mostly from the QUESC model. The findings provide a new perspective that can encourage those involved in the fitness center to manage these businesses considering the characteristics of the customer. This structure can help the hotel manager identifying which quality dimensions need more attention, improve the quality of the hotel service, develop customer loyalty, improve employee satisfaction, and differentiate from competitors. The article presents a new focus on guest view, which can be used to manage services offered by hotels.


2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 54-58
Author(s):  
YULIA ARTEMOVA ◽  

The article examines the state of the audit services market in Russia over the past three years. The author highlights the most important and relevant problems, such as dumping, the unattractive nature of the profession itself, the insufficient level of quality of service provision, and a decrease in income. The work reflects the factors that have the greatest impact on the activities of audit organizations, examines the possibilities for solving existing problems, and proposes measures to improve regulation in this area. In Russia, the market for audit services tends to enlarge its participants. Small companies face a choice when they must either join big enterprises or leave the market. The number of audit organizations and certified auditors is constantly declining. Since organizations limit their audit costs, audit companies reduce the cost of services they provide to retain their clients or acquire new ones. Currently, such price dumping is becoming large-scale. Another problem is the decline in the prestige of the profession. The lack of prospects in this area directly affects the decrease in the number of qualified specialists in the audit services market. Low demand for services has the greatest impact on audit organizations and individual auditors.


2012 ◽  
Vol 198-199 ◽  
pp. 1678-1683
Author(s):  
Yong Wang ◽  
Xin Ge ◽  
Yu Bin Xu ◽  
Lin Ma

Within the past few years, a great deal of attention has been drawn towards the CDMA system. The state of a CDMA system has two cases: saturation and instauration. After the system is saturated, no more users are allowed to access to CDMA systems with traditional method. In order to enhance the maximum number of users and the all users’ satisfaction while guaranteeing users’ quality of service (QoS) –SINR (signal-to-interference–plus-noise) requirement, this paper presents a degradation scheme based on user satisfaction in CDMA systems. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme can be allowed more users to access to and increase the total users’ satisfaction, leading to higher system capacity and resource utilization.


Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 1782 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danuta Szpilko

Global change, including population growth, economic development and climate change constitute urgent challenges for the smart cities of the 21st century. Cities need to effectively manage their development and meet challenges that have a significant impact on their economic activity, as well as health and quality of life for their citizens. In the context of continuous change, city decision-makers are constantly looking for new smart tools to tackle it. This article addresses this gap, indicating foresight as an effective tool that anticipates the future of a smart city. Its aim is to develop a methodology for planning and implementing a vision of smart city development based on foresight research. The proposed methodology consists of five stages and was developed with the use of methodology for designing hybrid systems. It is an organised, transparent and flexible process which can facilitate the development of sustainable and smart future visions of smart city development by virtue of the involvement, knowledge and experience of a large number of urban stakeholders at all stages of its creation. The article discusses in detail the operationalisation of each stage of the methodology in which the following main methods were used: megatrend analysis, factors analysis: social (S), technological (T), economic (E), ecological (E), political (P), relating to values (V) and legal (L) (STEEPVL), structural analysis, Delphi, creative visioning, scenarios and identifying actions related to the development of a smart city, divided into four categories: new, so far not undertaken (N); implemented so far, to be continued (C); redundant, to be discontinued (R); actions that have been implemented in the past and to be restored (R) (NCRR). The summary enumerates the benefits that foresight implementation can bring to the smart city.


Author(s):  
Vaibhav Kundu

Abstract: The domestic airline industry of India has been witnessing an enormous transformation over the period. Different class of people can avail this service due to modern specifications, affordability rates, ease of reachability, frequency of flights, quality of service, etc. The recent studies depict that the number of customers opting for domestic air travel has a steep increase when compared to the past numbers. This has been possible due to increase in connectivity of different areas and reducing the flight fares to increase the accessibility and reachability for the customers. Reducing fares and increasing connectivity does not only help the customers but it has also helped a lot to contribute to the business of airlines to a very large extent. This research mainly focuses on the consumer behavior while choosing different airlines. There are multiple factors which affect while choosing the appropriate flight company for travelling. There are different class of customers and accordingly the airline companies need to match their preferences. Some consumers want affordable rates whereas some customers want better quality o service. This research will basically give an idea which factors pertain the most while choosing the perfect flight for domestic travel within India. Keywords: Quality Service, IndiGo, SpiceJet, Go Air, Air Asia, Vistara, Air India, Statista, Holidify


2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 58-64
Author(s):  
V. L. Somov ◽  
M. N. Tolmachev

The article reveals some aspects of one of the latest trends in increasing the analytical capabilities of modern socio-economic statistics - the formation of business demography. The relevance of substantiating the statistical and methodological base for studying the processes of creation, stability and liquidation of economic entities is obvious due to the fact that such demographic characteristics of the life cycle of enterprises are increasingly becoming markers of the quality of the country’s economic development as a whole. The authors consider the main provisions of the methodology for the formation of business demography indicators in accordance with the Eurostat and OECD recommendations. Based on official Rosstat data, the dynamics of the rates of creation (birth rates) and liquidation (death rates) of organizations both in Russia as a whole and in federal districts and types of economic activity has been analyzed. Statistical analysis of business survey data indicates the inconsistency and variability of the business climate, the differentiation between regions and sectors of the economy in terms of business demography, as well as the manifestation of negative trends that have developed, according to the authors, in Russian entrepreneurship in recent three to four years. Thus, following substantive logic of the author’s conclusions: economic and statistical analysis based on a minimum set of indicators, including using methods of comparative interregional analysis, is very useful for making specific management decisions and choosing the priority of their implementation (depending on the characteristics of individual regions and the nature of the activities of economic entities), allowing to overcome a certain stagnation in the private enterprise sector.


Ciencia Unemi ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (26) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Maritza Sierra-Parada ◽  
Delia Madriz-Rodríguez ◽  
María Castillo-Pedraza

El objetivo de la presente investigación es diseñar un sistema de diagnóstico, medición y mejoramiento de la productividad dirigido a la calidad de servicio. El nivel es descriptivo, diseño de campo, se utilizó como instrumento un cuestionario para conocer la gestión de la productividad y el uso del Servqual para conocer la percepción de calidad de los clientes. Se encontraron algunas deficiencias entre las que destacan: no todas las empresas toman acciones para mejorar la productividad, 50,23% no monitorean los planes de mejoramiento continuo; más del 50% no realizan evaluaciones de desempeño; 30,6% no otorgan recompensas adicionales al salario; en cuanto a la calidad del servicio prestado, la dimensión seguridad presenta la mayor brecha entre las expectativas y las percepciones con un puntaje de (-15,59); las dimensiones restantes presentan también deficiencias, dado que no cumplen con las expectativas de los clientes. Por lo tanto, se pone de manifiesto, que las empresas se enfoquen en su personal tanto en su  recompensa y capacitación, ya que esto conlleva a la satisfacción del cliente; también es importante señalar que dependiendo del rubro se hace énfasis en la productividad de sus procesos principales; siendo el mantenimiento el proceso medular del rubro transporte, la calidad de servicio es el sector público, debido a que prestan un servicio social, y en el sector bancario es vital velar por una eficiente gestión financiera. Lo anterior justifica el diseño de un sistema de productividad, dirigido a la calidad del servicio, conformado por entradas, procesos y salidas del sistema; se formularon indicadores con el propósito de medir la productividad y la calidad del servicio en estas empresas. AbstractThe objective of this research is to design a system for diagnosis, measurement and improvement of productivity aimed at quality of service. The level is descriptive, field design; a questionnaire was used as a tool for knowing the management of the productivity and the use of the Servqual for knowing the quality perception of the clients. Some deficiencies were found among which are: not all the companies take actions to improve productivity, 50.23% do not monitor the plans for continuous improvement; more than 50% do not conduct performance evaluations; 30,6% do not grant additional rewards to the salary; the security dimension presents the major gap between expectations and perceptions with a score of (-15.59), in terms of the quality of the service provided; the remaining dimensions also have deficiencies, because they do not meet the expectations of customers. Therefore, it is clear that companies focus on their staff in both their reward and training, as this leads to customer satisfaction; It is also important to point out that depending on the item, emphasis is done on the productivity of its main processes; being the maintenance and quality of service the fundamental process of the transport item in the public sector, because they provide a social service, and in the banking sector it is vital to ensure an efficient financial management. This justifies the design of a productivity system, aimed at the quality of service, consisting of inputs, processes and outputs of the system; indicators were formulated with the purpose of measuring productivity and quality of service in these companies.


This book is the most wide-ranging exploration of national progress yet undertaken, spanning social, economic and environmental perspectives. It brings together some of Australia’s leading researchers to consider indicators of national performance, what they tell us about the quality and sustainability of life in Australia, and how these measures can be improved. It also includes commentaries by senior bureaucrats, academics and community representatives. At one level, the debate is about the adequacy of Gross Domestic Product, as the dominant indicator of a nation’s performance, relative to both the past and other nations. However, the debate also reaches far beyond this question to challenge conventional thinking about progress and the relationships between economic activity, quality of life, health and well-being, and ecological sustainability.


Author(s):  
Юлия Александровна Бакарюкина ◽  
Наталия Юрьевна Фоминых

Уходящий год был полон неожиданностей и вызовов для всех отраслей бизнеса. Компании, которые хотели остаться активными игроками рынка, за одну ночь переписывали стратегии, экстренно внедряли новые инструменты продвижения, повышали качество сервиса. Не исключением стали основы персонализации и нативности, взятые за основу электронной коммерции в наше время. В данной статье рассмотрены основные Тенденции по увеличению количества каналов взаимодействия с целевой аудиторией в интернет маркетинге. The past year has been full of surprises and challenges for all business sectors. Companies that wanted to remain active players on the market rewrote strategies in a single night, urgently introduced new promotional tools, and improved the quality of service. The basics of personalisation and nativeness, taken as the basis for e-commerce these days, were no exception. This article reviews the main Trends in increasing the number of channels of interaction with the target audience in internet marketing.


Author(s):  
Yew-Hock Ang

The Internet has gone from near-invisibility to near-ubiquity and penetrated into every aspect of society in the past decades (Department of Commerce, 1998). The application scenarios have also changed dramatically, and now demand a more sophisticated service model from the network. In the early 1990s, there was a large-scale experiment in sending digitized voice and video across the Internet through a packetswitched infrastructure (Braden, Clark, & Shenker, 1994). These highly-visible experiments have depended upon three enabling technologies: (1) Many modern workstations now come equipped with built-in multimedia hardware, (2) IP multicasting, which was not yet generally available in commercial routers, and (3) Highly-sophisticated digital audio and video applications have been developed. It became clear from these experiments that an important technical element of the Internet is still missing: multimedia, which dominate increasing proportion of today’s data traffic, are not well supported on the Internet.


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