Determining performance criteria of railway market: a case study

Ahi, Muhammet Türker; Yıldız, Kürşat

doi:10.1186/s40852-018-0084-5

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“…Many studies show that the chief executive officers (CEOs) of privately owned companies influence the performance of companies through management skills and experiences [1][2][3][4]. The state sector has always been an important element of many economies, including the most advanced ones [5]. Public debt has increased sharply since the 2008 financial crisis, especially in advanced countries [6].…”

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Is Narcissism Sustainable in CEO Leadership of State-Owned Enterprises?

Kim

2018

Sustainability

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The state sector has been an important part of many economies. This study measures the narcissism of the chief executive officers (CEOs) of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) unobtrusively, and examines the effect of narcissism on the performance and accounting earnings management of firms. This study shows that the narcissism of CEOs positively affects the performance of SOEs, and that the positive effect is a result of real management decisions rather than accounting earnings management. It also shows that CEO narcissism does not affect the earnings management of SOEs. However, this relation changes as the tenure of the CEO gets longer. As tenure gets longer, a CEO's narcissism negatively affects the performance of a SOE, and a CEO with high narcissism is likely to be involved in earnings management to make up for weak performance. This study suggests that narcissism is not a sustainable leadership style. It also suggests that the personal characteristics of executives in public corporations are important in determining the performance of firms. While a longer tenure ensures that a CEO will pursue his/her strategy steadily, the leadership of a narcissistic CEO becomes negative and ineffective as their tenure gets longer. Considering the importance of SOEs in the economy, this is an important policy implication, as the appointment of a CEO and length of tenure are likely to be determined by the government.

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Is Narcissism Sustainable in CEO Leadership of State-Owned Enterprises?

Kim

2018

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“…With the increasing demands on transport security due to the spread of COVID-19, open innovation technologies can improve the management of such multimodal transport and logistics systems. At the same time, studies show that the innovation potential in the railway industry is limited, as the railway industry is a slowly developing sector in terms of technology [75]. At the same time, the study highlights the significant dependence of innovation in this sector on government policy.…”

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Influence of Passenger Flow at the Station Entrances on Passenger Satisfaction Amid COVID-19

Sidorchuk

Lukina

Markin

et al. 2020

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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Railway stations are centers of mass accumulation of people. Additional regulations change the intensity of the flow of visitors and the time of entering the station. Delays become an essential factor affecting the perceived satisfaction with all services at stations. This paper analyzes the impact of the intensity of passenger flow in the key areas of the station (entrance groups) on the satisfaction of visitors with station functioning (by the example of Moscow railway stations). The authors of the paper used methods of observation to measure the current passenger flows at the entrances to the station and also collected secondary data on transport flows at city railway stations. To predict passenger flow, the authors used statistical methods to assess the relationship between variables and regression. The paper used a survey of passengers to analyze satisfaction with the functioning of railway station facilities and assess the acceptable delay time at the entrance/exit to the station. The article substantiates that in the context of current requirements for transport security, an important factor for perceived satisfaction with station services is the forecasting and management of passenger flows and control of time of entering the station.

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“…The railway sector performance with 130 companies in Turkey was studied. The authors have elaborated methodology to determine the most influenced factors on companies' competitiveness performances based on four approaches SWOT Analysis [9]. The data for analysis were collected based on questionnaires.…”

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Analysis of Policies of Railway Operators Using SWOT Criteria and the SIMUS Method: A Case for the Bulgarian Railway Network

Stoilova

Munier

2021

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This study is useful for railway operators as it enables them to verify their decisions against the results of the application of the techniques of strategic planning and multi-criteria analysis. It gives railway stakeholders concise, objective and unbiased information so that they can then make decisions and also allows them to determine the strengths and sensitivity, of the best solution found. This paper presents a methodology for the assessment of the policies of railway operators using Strengths–Weakness–Opportunities–Threats (SWOT) criteria and the Sequential Interactive Modelling for Urban Systems (SIMUS) method. The methodology of the research consists of two stages. In the first stage, the alternatives of the policies for the railway operator are formulated; the criteria in the SWOT group are defined; and the values of the criteria are determined for each of the alternatives. In the second stage, the SIMUS method is applied to rank the alternatives and assess the criteria in the SWOT groups. The criteria are interpreted as objectives and linear optimizations are performed. A comparison between the desired values for each objective of the SWOT criteria and the optimum values of the objective functions obtained by SIMUS was made. The methodology was applied to the Bulgarian railway network. Three policies for railway operation were studied. The total number of 17 railway policies criteria in the SWOT group were defined and assessed—three strengths criteria, seven weaknesses criteria, three opportunities criteria and four threats criteria. The results indicated that the best strategy is A3 (some reconstruction of the railway infrastructure and new rolling stock on some lines), with the highest score of 3.76, followed by A2 (new rolling stock on some lines), with a score of 2.71. The status-quo strategy (A1) has a very low score of 0.43, that the current situation or status-quo cannot be supported. The weights of both strengths and opportunities are both of the same importance with a weight of 0.180. It was found out that the clusters Weakness and Threats are dominant with weights of 0.4 and 0.24 respectively. The results show that the weights are all practically the same, about 0.06, and therefore, no discrimination by importance is possible. The methodology makes it possible to consider the alternatives simultaneously, and in this way, the results will reflect the effect of one criterion on all others, and permit us to quantify the differences between expected and real results.

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Determining performance criteria of railway market: a case study

Cited by 7 publications

References 35 publications

Is Narcissism Sustainable in CEO Leadership of State-Owned Enterprises?

Is Narcissism Sustainable in CEO Leadership of State-Owned Enterprises?

Influence of Passenger Flow at the Station Entrances on Passenger Satisfaction Amid COVID-19

Analysis of Policies of Railway Operators Using SWOT Criteria and the SIMUS Method: A Case for the Bulgarian Railway Network

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