The five largest US commercial health insurance companies together enroll 125 million members, or 43 percent of the country's insured population. Over the past decade these insurers have become increasingly dependent for growth and profitability on public programs, according to an analysis of corporate reports. In 2016 Medicare and Medicaid accounted for nearly 60 percent of the companies' heal...

THE NEED FOR ECOLOGICAL DATA IN TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH MCC, The Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, is a research consortium whose Software Technology Program was tasked by its member companies to create technology that dramatically improves software productivity and quality. This program has focused its research on the upstream portion of the software development process, since ...

Software companies seek to develop and maintain high quality products along with increasing reliability and maintainability. Therefore, companies look into every aspect for project success. Software companies try to improve efficiency in process by using different techniques. With best hardware, operating system and methodologies, still there have been disastrous software failures. It is found ...

an investigation of science and technology parks in technology development in different countries show a positive impact on development is technology. factors influencing on the development of technology parks can be considerable help in the creation of parks may be appropriate.the study purpose is identified strategies for improving agricultural technology development in science and technology...

Airline companies do not collaborate when dealing with problems that arise during their own operational control plan. These problems are related with aircrafts, crew members and passengers and the actions towards the solution of these problems are usually known as operations recovery. In this paper we present a possible solution to the problem of lack of collaboration between different airlines...

We examine how board networks affect change-of-control transactions by investigating whether directors’ deal exposure acquired through board service at different companies affect their current firms’ likelihood of being targeted in a private equity-backed, takeprivate transaction. In our sample of all US publicly traded firms in 2000–2007, we find that companies which have directors with privat...

This paper refers to how the collaboration among members of a Virtual Organization composed of software services providers can be enlarged within a SOA/SaaS scenario, maintaining partners’ independence, autonomy and heterogeneity. It considers the situation where software companies work collaboratively to meet business opportunities so attending wider markets in a more agile way and with less r...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the impact of HIV on businesses in Zambia and to assess attitudes towards HIV and HIV education in the workplace. METHODS The personnel managers of 33 companies with a total workforce of 10,204 in Lusaka and in towns in the Copperbelt were visited by two members of the study team. The study was discussed and a questionnaire about the impact of HIV on their company was e...

BACKGROUND In recent years, 10 major multinational food and beverage companies have worked together within the International Food and Beverage Alliance (IFBA) to increase their commitments to public health. Current IFBA commitments include initiatives to improve the nutrition quality of products and how these products are advertised to children. The impact and magnitude of IFBA member contribut...

Product software export can be an attractive option for small and medium sized IT-companies operating in small local markets. In practice however, little support is offered for specifically those type of companies to support strategic preparation and to enable thorough export planning. The central aim of this paper is to present a Product Software Export Planning Method (PSEPM) that supports th...