This paper explores the relationship between doctor managers and senior health service administrators (CEOs or General Managers) within the context of Australian health reform. Government funding for health services has become increasingly driven by government defined measurable performance targets and resources. These policy changes have implications for hospitals to be managed more cost effec...

Barriers to energy efficiency have been extensively discussed in the energy literature, but little is known about positive drivers. This paper investigates the role of top managers and more specifically of top operations managers on the adoption of energy-efficiency practices, based on 5779 energy efficiency recommendations made to 752 small and medium-sized manufacturing firms under the US Dep...

Management, professional, and related occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43,016 1,137 20,758 1,346 22,258 981 Management, business, and financial operations occupations. . . . . . . . . . 17,561 1,227 9,385 1,416 8,176 1,056 Management occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,881 1,295 6,943 1,454 4,938 1,127 Chief...

Management, professional, and related occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57,960 51.5 9.2 7.7 9.1 Management, business, and financial operations occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,108 43.6 8.2 6.3 9.4 Management occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,994 39.2 7.3 5....

Management, professional, and related occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47,207 1,224 22,815 1,442 24,393 1,052 Management, business, and financial operations occupations. . . . . . . . . . 19,414 1,327 10,415 1,526 8,999 1,134 Management occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,169 1,392 7,568 1,573 5,600 1,173 Ch...

Management, professional, and related occupations.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59,438 396 3,118 13,561 13,926 13,818 10,689 3,931 44.0 Management, business, and financial operations occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,941 87 938 4,931 5,772 6,424 4,929 1,860 46.0 Management occupations.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

We consider a model where investors can invest directly or search for an asset manager, information about assets is costly, and managers charge an endogenous fee. In equilibrium, the efficiency of asset prices is linked to the efficiency of the asset management market: (1) if investors can find managers more easily then more money is allocated to active management, fees are lower, and asset pri...

Management, professional, and related occupations.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56,050 323 3,052 12,587 13,278 13,205 10,164 3,441 44.1 Management, business, and financial operations occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23,171 64 963 4,431 5,471 6,058 4,588 1,596 45.9 Management occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

Management, professional, and related occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56,050 51.6 8.8 7.5 8.7 Management, business, and financial operations occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23,171 43.7 7.5 6.1 8.9 Management occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,199 38.6 6.7 5....

A questionnaire-based research project enquiring into the psychological health of general practice managers found that 5% of managers admitted to suicidal ideas. This paper explores the moral issues raised when research conducted at a distance uncovers information about participants which indicates that they may be at increased risk of harm. It examines whether the authors of such studies have ...