- You can use the 'AND' / 'OR' / 'NOT' option for the things you want to add or remove. - You can return to normal search by pressing the Cancel button.
In this paper we examine how the financial performance of telecommunications firms is affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, and investigate the role of capital expenditures in this relationship. The full sample consists of 383 unique telecommunications firms from 72 countries. Empirical models are estimated using ordinary least squares regression with the Driscoll–Kraay standard errors method. We find that the financial performance of telecommunications firms, on average, decreased slightly during the pandemic period. However, firms with higher capital expenditures have increased their financial ...More
This study examines the effects of economic and socio-demographic factors on the health status of men and women separately. The annual data of 16 selected transition countries for the period 2000-2016 were used. Life expectancy at birth was used as an indicator of health status in the study. Economic and environmental variables such as GDP per capita, health expenditures, unemployment, carbon emissions, access to safe water, and urbanization are considered as factors affecting life expectancy at birth. In the study, the Autoregressive Distributed Lags (ARDL) model was used.
The findings show ...More
The performance analysis of healthcare supply chain management (SCM) has become extremely important as healthcare systems have begun to struggle to enhance operational efficiency and diminish costs. The aim of this study was to measure healthcare SCM in accordance with competency-based operation evaluation. The study was organized as a hierarchical structure based on the main processes, sub-processes, and their operations of healthcare SCM. It is considerably difficult to quantify the competency of an operation. Therefore, a fuzzy model was developed to measure healthcare SCM performance accor ...More