Antonio Blanco‐oliver
Biographic Data
| ID | 4450585 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Antonio Blanco‐oliver |
| GIVEN NAMES | Antonio |
| FAMILY NAME | Blanco‐oliver |
| SIGNATURE | OLIVER A B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Sevilla |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5540-692X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The management consultancy effect
The growing use of external management consultancy services by public sector organizations has generated controversy. Some claim that users have become overreliant on, or even addicted to, this source of knowledge. However, our understanding of this phenomenon and the precise nature of its risks is underdeveloped. In this article, we address these concerns by focusing on whether using consulting services inflates future demand and on its conseque…
The impact of management consultants on public service efficiency
Public sector organisations often make use of management consultants in policy implementation, but we know little about the outcomes. The paper reports one of the first quantitative evaluations of the impact of consulting advice on efficiency of public sector organisations. We employ an extensive dataset covering English NHS acute care hospital trusts over a four-year period. Based on PCSEs estimations, the findings show a significantly positive …
Modeling the Financial Distress of Microenterprise Start- Ups Using Support Vector Machines
Despite the leading role that micro-entrepreneurship plays in economic development, and the high failure rate of microenterprise start-ups in their early years, very few studies have designed financial distress models to detect the financial problems of micro-entrepreneurs. Moreover, due to a lack of research, nothing is known about whether non-financial information and non-parametric statistical techniques improve the predictive capacity of thes…
The impact of management consultants on public service efficiency
Public sector organisations often make use of management consultants in policy implementation, but we know little about the outcomes. The paper reports one of the first quantitative evaluations of the impact of consulting advice on efficiency of public sector organisations. We employ an extensive dataset covering English NHS acute care hospital trusts over a four-year period. Based on PCSEs estimations, the findings show a significantly positive …
The management consultancy effect
The growing use of external management consultancy services by public sector organizations has generated controversy. Some claim that users have become overreliant on, or even addicted to, this source of knowledge. However, our understanding of this phenomenon and the precise nature of its risks is underdeveloped. In this article, we address these concerns by focusing on whether using consulting services inflates future demand and on its conseque…
Modeling the Financial Distress of Microenterprise Start- Ups Using Support Vector Machines
Despite the leading role that micro-entrepreneurship plays in economic development, and the high failure rate of microenterprise start-ups in their early years, very few studies have designed financial distress models to detect the financial problems of micro-entrepreneurs. Moreover, due to a lack of research, nothing is known about whether non-financial information and non-parametric statistical techniques improve the predictive capacity of thes…
The impact of management consultants on public service efficiency
Public sector organisations often make use of management consultants in policy implementation, but we know little about the outcomes. The paper reports one of the first quantitative evaluations of the impact of consulting advice on efficiency of public sector organisations. We employ an extensive dataset covering English NHS acute care hospital trusts over a four-year period. Based on PCSEs estimations, the findings show a significantly positive …
The management consultancy effect
The growing use of external management consultancy services by public sector organizations has generated controversy. Some claim that users have become overreliant on, or even addicted to, this source of knowledge. However, our understanding of this phenomenon and the precise nature of its risks is underdeveloped. In this article, we address these concerns by focusing on whether using consulting services inflates future demand and on its conseque…
Business (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Marketing (2 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (2 works) · Public relations (2 works) · Public sector (2 works) · Service (business (2 works) · Accounting (1 work) · Actuarial science (1 work)