While there are many mathematical approaches to order acceptance (OA), the performance of OA in practice is overlooked. This paper assesses current OA methods and performance measures that could measure OA. The outcome is ...

Logistics processes in hospitals are vital in the provision of patient care. Improving healthcare logistics processes provides an opportunity for reduced healthcare costs and better support of clinical processes. Hospitals ...

Purpose – Due to observed problems in real-life projects stemming from the lack of a unified definition, the purpose of this paper is to formulate a new definition of project partnering (PP) through documenting the specific ...

The total cost of a construction project involves both the cost of production and the transaction costs associated with managing the project. However, we know surprisingly little about the magnitude of transaction costs ...

Many different mechanisms are available to project managers who wish to improve collaboration in the relationship between client and contractor in a project. However, it is not necessarily clear which mechanisms that are ...

Development of healthcare services is a societal responsibility often appearing as major public projects. These types of projects often have a long lifetime expectancy and represent large investments and changes to established ...

The paper presents a method for the development of safety indicators for a process industry application based on a system engineering perspective. Traditional approaches use probabilistic risk assessment or linear accident ...

Interest in project-management (PM) governance has grown steadily over the past decade. Turner (2006) introduced, over a decade ago, the role of governance (based on a definition of corporate governance) in the development ...