Get the latest news and analysis in the stock market today, including national and world stock market news, business news, financial news and more. A Veteran business database that lists businesses that are 51 or more owned by Veterans or serviceconnected disabled Veterans. It is used to promote and market. TABLE OF CONTENT INTRODUCTION 7. Faculty of ARTS Scientific Research 11. Scientific Conferences 12. Publishing of Scientific Researches 18. Faculty of LAW AND. FF2/9780132883702.jpg' alt='Operations And Maintenance Benchmarks Research Report #32 Pdf' title='Operations And Maintenance Benchmarks Research Report #32 Pdf' />Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Until recently, little evidence suggested that the computer revolution of recent decades has had much impact on aggregate economic growth. Analysis at the worker level has found evidence that use of computers is associated with higher wages. Although some research questions whether this finding is solely due to unobserved heterogeneity in worker quality, others point to such results as evidence that the wage premia for skilled workers have increased over time. Adoption of new technologies is associated with higher productivity and higher productivity growth. As in the worker literature, firms adopting computers may simply be more productive firms. Using new data from the 1. Survey of Small Business Finances, I examine the determinants of computer adoption by small, privately held firms and analyze whether computer use affects profits, sales, labor productivity, or other measures of firm success. I am able to control for many firm characteristics not available in other data sets. I find that computer adoption is more likely by larger firms, by younger firms, by firms whose markets are national or international, and by limited liability firms. Adoption is also more likely by firms founded or inherited by a current owner and by firms whose primary owners are more educated. Operations And Maintenance Benchmarks Research Report #32 Pdf' title='Operations And Maintenance Benchmarks Research Report #32 Pdf' />Firms with more than 5. African Americans or Asians, and, in some specifications, firms with more than 5. Hispanics are less likely to have adopted computers, echoing results for households in the literature. Evidence concerning the link between computer use and firm performance is mixed. Current performance as measured by profits or sales is not associated with current computer use in the full sample. In some specifications, use of computers for specific tasks is associated with higher costs. Estimates of the effects of computer use on costs are larger in absolute value when the sample is restricted to manufacturing or wholesale trade firms or to larger small businesses. Estimates using the more parsimonious set of control variables widely available in other firm level data show large and positive effects of computer use on firm costs, sales, and profits, suggesting that controlling for managerial, firm, and owner characteristics is important. Designing a performance measurement system A case study. Performance measurement PM by means of local performance indicators PIs is developing into performance management at a company wide scale. But how should PIs at various levels in the organization be incorporated into one system that can help managers, working at levels that range from operational to strategic How do we convince potential users and obtain their support when starting to develop such a system How can we aggregate PIs How do we present results This paper addresses these and related questions. Tennis Game Pc Ware. It is based on a case study carried out at the European Operations department of Nike, a company producing and selling sportswear worldwide. The study resulted in a prototype system that basically is a balanced scorecard tailored to the needs of the company. The empirical findings differ in some ways from the literature on developing performance measurement systems PMSs in Operations. Discussing these differences provides new theoretical and practical insights. They relate to the role of parallel initiatives for PM, the role of standardized metrics, the continuous improvement of PMSs, and the normalization and aggregation of measures. Our findings suggest that developing PMSs should to a large extent be understood as a co ordination effort rather than a design effort. The lessons learned cannot have universal validity, but may be helpful in similar kinds of initiatives.