Most of the existing empirical literature on franchising investigates the share of company-owned versus franchised establishments within large retail firms. This literature typically has not considered the decision of a business owner to operate an independent business or to become a franchisee. This paper empirically analyzes what determines whether independent ownership or affiliation is obse...

The introduction of Medicare's Prospective Payment System (PPS) has disproportionately increased financial pressures on rural hospitals and posed challenges to the survival of these institutions. Increasingly, rural hospitals are seeking strategies that can enhance their chances for survival in a turbulent and hostile environment. This study examined the survival effects of one such strategy, m...

The following information is missing from the Funding section: NSP and MWwere funded by Faculty of Science of the University of South Bohemia. The affiliation for the seventh author is incorrect. Matthias Weiss is affiliated with Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre CAS, České Budějovice, Czech Republic, and Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějo...

For many stand-alone hospitals, a merger, partnership, or affiliation may be the only option to access scale and remain viable in the nation's emerging new healthcare delivery system. These organizations can consider many options for affiliation, including traditional options such as affiliation with regional academic medical centers, a merger or takeover to become the corporate member of a lar...

Axelrod’s (1986) evolutionary computational model of metanorms was replicated and extended. Results were generally supportive of the original, with extensions increasing the number of generations resulted in increased stability and convergence to levels not achieved in the original. Replications of the groups game (two groups differing in numbers and power) yielded outcomes that were mixed, as ...

There are typographical errors in the author affiliations: 1. Affiliation number 3: Division of Nutrition, St John’s Research Institute, Bangalore, Maharashtra, India. should be: Division of Nutrition, St John’s Research Institute, Bengalaru, Karnataka, India 2. Affiliation number 5: Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey, Women’s University (SNDT), Mumb...

Authors would like to update the changes in affiliation. Corrected version of affiliation updated here.

Prior research has demonstrated both socialization and selection effects for the relationship between antisocial peer affiliation and externalizing problems in adolescence. Less research has evaluated such effects postadolescence. In this study, a cross-lagged panel analysis was used to evaluate the extent of socialization (i.e., the effect of antisocial peer affiliation on subsequent externali...

The present study investigated whether the complementarity principle (mutual interactive behaviors are opposite on control and similar on affiliation) applies to teacher-child interactions within the kindergarten classroom. Furthermore, it was examined whether interactive behaviors and complementarity depended on children's externalizing and internalizing behaviors, interaction time, and intera...

Although genetic and environmental factors are separately implicated in the development of antisocial behavior (ASB), interactive models have emerged relatively recently, particularly those incorporating molecular genetic data. Using a large sample of male Caucasian adolescents and young adults from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), the association of deviant pe...