We examine twenty years of direct private equity investments by seven large institutions. These direct investments perform better than public market indices, especially buyout investments and those made in the 1990s. Outperformance by the direct investments, however, relative to the corresponding private equity fund benchmarks is limited and concentrated among buyout transactions. Co-investment...

neglected factor can be introduced into the training programme. The plan to change the parental attitude does not aim at reducing the amount of work of the hospital staff, but at making the relative's life meaningful and worthwhile and free of guilt and frustration, and so reducing the shadow of the stigma resting on the patient. Parents have usually made considerable emotional investments, bef...

ICT investments in South Africa’s public healthcare have not resulted in the efficiencies envisaged as health information systems lacks interoperability. The approval of the eHealth strategy in 2012, introduces a roadmap for hospital information systems interoperability, thus, increase return on investment in ICT spending and improve the collection and quality of health data. EHealth Foundation...

The year 2000 countdown provided a uniquely visible instance of spending on information technology by U.S. companies. With public attention riveted on potential Y2K malfunctions, managers were forced to evaluate their IT and make decisions whether to modify or replace existing systems. In the aftermath of Y2K, critics charged that the problem was overblown and that companies overspent on IT. In...

Known as Customer Relationship Management (CRM) in recent years a concept for business that focuses customers is often discussed in research and practice. After initially extraordinary expectations, numerous CRM projects fail. Thereby as one of the major reasons an overestimated and poor data quality is very frequently mentioned. Many authors assume a positive correlation between data quality a...

Digital innovations are changing medicine, and hemodynamic monitoring will not be an exception. Five to ten years from now, we can envision a world where clinicians will learn hemodynamics with simulators and serious games, will monitor patients with wearable or implantable sensors in the hospital and after discharge, will use medical devices able to communicate and integrate the historical, cl...

In the context of IT infrastructure development, this paper empirically examines the relationship between IT investments and corporate earnings management. Our results suggest that earnings management undermines the firm’s capability of accomplishing its planned IT investments in infrastructure development. Strategic managers are also likely to manipulate IT infrastructure investments to achiev...

We explore the phenomenon and economics of private equity investments by bank-affiliated groups. Between 1983 and 2009, bank-affiliated private equity groups accounted for over a quarter of all private equity investments. Banks’ involvement increases during peaks of the private equity cycles. In particular, deals done by bank-affiliated groups are financed at significantly better terms than oth...

Information tecbnology (IT) infrastructure investments are an extremely important part of e-business and constitute a major portion of IT investments in many organizations. IT infrastructure investments include investments in connectivity, systems integration, and data storage tbat may be used by multiple applications. Prior researcb has recognized tbe importance of a flexible IT infrastructure...

Although the concept of investments in romantic relationships has featured prominently in close relationships research, there have been no empirical analyses of different types of investments and their possible differential predictive power regarding relationship state or fate. With data from five independent samples, the authors offer and examine investments that differ in terms of their timin...