The aim of this study was to examine independent variables such as socio-demographic, psychopathologic, and rehabilitative support background that might predict re-hospitalization among psychiatric residents of a long-stay care home (LSCH) in Hong Kong. The re-hospitalization of psychiatric residents with mental health needs who were admitted to a long-stay care home during a 2-year period was ...

This paper analyzes debt maturity structure for a borrower in a setting where creditors are faced with strategic uncertainty. In contrast to the existing literature, I examine the e¤ects of strategic uncertainty on the issuance of debt in an environment where face values of debt are determined endogenously and directly a¤ect investors’ rollover decisions. I …nd that strategic uncertainty has a ...

I study a model in which high and low income voters must decide between continuing with a status quo policy or switching to a different policy, which is more redistributive. Under the status quo policy, low income voters may get an opportunity to become high income earners. Such opportunities are expected to arise infrequently, so in expectation these voters prefer the more redistributive polic...

The aim of this article is to develop the foundations of an actor-centred, processual approach to examining the influence of cross-border knowledge transfer and management learning on transnational institution building in post-socialist countries. We argue that there is a need for more research to understand how key social actors go about (re)structuring, (re)defining and sharing knowledge with...

This article presents the results of a survey of Bulgarian industrial organizations with respect to their clashes with the world financial and economic crisis’s effects on local economy. The crisis manifestations under business environment specificity factors and important cultural aspects of dominating managerial behavior in these companies are described and analyzed. The concrete research enc...

Based on the regulation of grid fees and the regulatory requirements on the quality of supply, grid operators attempt to find an optimal balance between costs and quality of supply. One main aspect of the quality of supply is the non-availability of supply, which strongly depends on the duration of the re-supply process and therefore on the availability of resources. Consequently, grid operator...

EGovernment aims at exploiting Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to provide better quality services to citizens and businesses, mainly through electronic delivery channels. Different strategies have been suggested to implement eGovernment; all recognize as fundamental, to deal with, and exploit, continuous ICT evolution, to transform the public administration into a learning orga...