Hospital efficiency relates to organizational factors and leadership style. This study investigated several factors, as one interdependent construct, with the potential to influence hospital performance in terms of quality-of-care. National database and survey information on modern management, lean management, organizational traits and leadership was compared. A positive correlation was found b...

the main purpose of this study was analyzingthe promoting factors of the developmentin participatory irrigation managementin the irrigation network of miandarband villages located in kermanshah county. the research population consisted of all beneficiaries of this area (n=417). by using the cochran's formula, 126 people were chosen through a random stratified sampling method with appropria...

A voluntary insurance scheme for hospital care was launched in 1986 in the Bwamanda District in northwest Zaire. The paper briefly reviews the rationale, design and implementation of the scheme and discusses its results and performance over time. The scheme succeeded in generating stable revenue for the hospital in a context where government intervention was virtually absent and external subsid...

This paper analyses the factors impacting partnering decisions in Venture Capital syndicates using a unique dataset of 2,373 VC transactions in Germany. By including time varying information about industry experience and cooperation patterns we explicitly take into account not only the changing social context for partner selection but also the dynamic nature of financial and managerial resource...

This paper describes an empirical study of the dynamics of consumer switching behavior across major Internet portal Websites. The study methodology is based on a multinomial Logit-Markov model framework that characterizes consumer switching-behavior. We propose a tractable Maximum Likelihood procedure to estimate the switching model’s parameters on the basis of online panel data. This empirical...

The activities of a project manager in overseeing the development of a software system are many and varied. Not all such activities are performed in managing every project. If so, a natural ensuing question is whether project managers adapt their managerial functions to the projects being managed. Prior research suggests that they do adapt, and that project characteristics may be the factors de...

We present a formal model of how the size of a firm’s administrative staff depends on the environment in which it operates. We consider a monopolist that introduces a new product in the face of market uncertainty. In a model that incorporates an informationprocessing view of the managerial hierarchies into a product choice problem, we relate optimal size of organizations to the speed of change ...

According to the widely used Managerial Power Model, a higher hierarchical position with associated higher power leads to higher compensation. In contrast, the Compensating Wage Differentials Model argues that there is a non-positive relationship between positional power and total compensation. Both power and income yield utility and in equilibrium managers are prepared to trade-off the two ele...

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