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Nutzenkalküle

English translation: benefit calculations

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German term or phrase:Nutzenkalküle
English translation:benefit calculations
Entered by: Christine Lam

00:51 Sep 7, 2004
German to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Management / new public management
German term or phrase: Nutzenkalküle
Qualität im Sinn viel weitergehender Erfüllung von Kunden- und Nutzeranforderungen, wobei auch subjektive Nutzenkalküle eine Rolle spielen
Christine Lam
Local time: 21:42
benefit calculations
Explanation:
Quality in terms of much better fulfilment of customer and user requirements, whereby subject benefit calculations too play a part.

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Note added at 39 mins (2004-09-07 01:31:01 GMT)
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See: Prognos [E] - Bereich Public Management
... setting processes; Introduction of cost and benefit calculations; Design of
contract management based on benefit contracts; Establishment ...
www.prognos.de/ehtml/p_public_2.html - 33k - Cached - Similar pages

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Narasimhan Raghavan
Local time: 07:12
Grading comment
all suggestions were excellent; this one fit my context best. Thank you
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +3benefit calculations
Narasimhan Raghavan
5 +1usage criteria
Jo Mayr
3 +2estimates of benefits
Dr. Fred Thomson


  

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36 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
Nutzenkalküle
benefit calculations


Explanation:
Quality in terms of much better fulfilment of customer and user requirements, whereby subject benefit calculations too play a part.

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Note added at 39 mins (2004-09-07 01:31:01 GMT)
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See: Prognos [E] - Bereich Public Management
... setting processes; Introduction of cost and benefit calculations; Design of
contract management based on benefit contracts; Establishment ...
www.prognos.de/ehtml/p_public_2.html - 33k - Cached - Similar pages



Narasimhan Raghavan
Local time: 07:12
Native speaker of: Tamil
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
all suggestions were excellent; this one fit my context best. Thank you

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Dr.G.MD (X)
16 mins
  -> Thanks Gerhard
agree  Steffen Walter: Despite "Kalküle" being used, I'd steer away from the pure math (calculations) and say "benefit *considerations" (because of "subjective").
7 hrs
  -> Thanks Steffen
agree  Milena Sahakian
18 hrs
  -> Thanks Melany
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38 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
Nutzenkalküle
estimates of benefits


Explanation:
Guidance from Hmablock/Wessels

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Note added at 38 mins (2004-09-07 01:30:12 GMT)
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AlsO: utlity estimates

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Note added at 40 mins (2004-09-07 01:31:28 GMT)
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Or: benefit analyses utility analyses

Dr. Fred Thomson
United States
Local time: 19:42
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 15

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Deborah Shannon: another variation: subjective expected utility analyses/judgements must be taken into the equation
7 hrs
  -> Thank you, Deborah.
agree  Mario Marcolin
1 day 7 hrs
  -> Thank you, Mario
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56 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Nutzenkalküle
usage criteria


Explanation:
Menschenverhalten sich eigennützig. Sie beziehen bewusst negativeExternalitäten (negative Nutzenfolgen) ihrer Handlungenfür andere Akteure in ihre Nutzenkalküle ein (Prototyp desHomo oecnomicus).


    Reference: http://www.suz.unizh.ch/volken/konfliktVL/pdf/RMTheorie.pdf
Jo Mayr
Germany
Local time: 03:42
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Lillian van den Broeck
1 day 14 hrs
  -> Gracias, Luna!
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