Background and Objectives: Responsiveness is one of the hallmarks of high performance health systems. Maintaining the responsiveness of health organizations at high level, require constant assessment of its situation as perceived by the patients. The accumulation of data on patients’ perception of health organizations’ responsiveness can help policy-makers in developing effective relevant strat...

background and objectives: responsiveness is one of the hallmarks of high performance health systems. maintaining the responsiveness of health organizations at high level, require constant assessment of its situation as perceived by the patients. the accumulation of data on patients’ perception of health organizations’ responsiveness can help policy-makers in developing effective relevant strat...

Improvement in supply chain performance is one of the major issues in the current world. Lack of coordination in the supply chain is the main drawback of supply chain that many researchers have proposed different methodologies to overcome it. VMI (Vendor-managed inventory) is one of these methodologies that implementing it has some obstacles. This paper proposes new model that is agent-managed ...

Tangible tabletop musical interfaces allowing for a collaborative real-time interaction in live music performances are one of the promising fields in NIMEs. At present, this kind of interfaces present at least some of the following characteristics that limit their musical use: latency in the interaction, and partial or complete lack of responsiveness to gestures such as tapping, scrubbing or pr...

having a comprehensive evaluation model with reliable data is useful to improve performance of supply chain. in this paper, according to the nature of supply chain, a model is presented that able to evaluate the performance of the supply chain by a network data envelopment analysis model and by using the financial, intellectual capital (knowledge base), collaboration and responsiveness factors ...

In JIT assembly system, any supplier’s postponement of delivery or incorrect delivery quantity will result in the manufacturer’s incapability of assembling on schedule, which will not only damage the interests of other suppliers but also jeopardize the interests of enterprises and reduce the competitiveness of the supply chain. In this article, coordination of the upstream supply logistics from...

Performance—responsiveness and scalability—is a make-or-break quality for software. Software performance engineering (SPE) [Smith and Williams 2002], [Smith 1990] provides a systematic, quantitative approach to constructing software systems that meet performance objectives. With SPE, you detect problems early in development, and use quantitative methods to support cost-benefit analysis of hardw...

This study examines firms’ responses to performance assessments relative to multiple aspiration levels. We argue that comparisons of performance to multiple aspiration levels over time affects the interpretative clarity of feedback and, consequently, shapes a firm’s responsiveness. We further conceptualize the relationship between performance relative to social and historical aspirations as amb...