1256 HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE CLINICIANS are terminally nice people. We root for the underdog, care for the vulnerable, and the marginalized. But most of all, we are self-appointed patient champions fighting the health care system with a passionate commitment to improving care at the end of life. Indeed, our activism has been amazingly successful as evidenced by the recent subspecialty recog...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has grown rapidly during last decade. Trend is showing that there is a significant increase of society‘s overall concern about sustainable development with the aid of corporate social responsibility. The concept of sustainable development is gaining importance not only in scientific literature but also in board of governors room (BOG) of firms. Past researc...

Despite the attention for corporate, brand and product images, only few studies focus on methodological comparisons of image research methods. This article presents a comparison of two current instruments: the Q-sort method and a Likert attitude questionnaire. The study applies both methods to measure the image of beef, using the same assertions in similar samples of consumers. The two methods ...

BACKGROUND An increasing number of clinics offer complementary or integrative medicine services; however, clear guidance about how complementary medicine could be successfully and efficiently integrated into conventional health care settings is still lacking. Combining conventional and complementary medicine into integrative medicine can be regarded as a kind of merger. In a merger, two or more...

The most important tool for promoting the bank’s stability and health is the establishment of a standard corporate governance structure for managing the bank's business. Redesigning the relationships between bank management, shareholders and the rest of the bank’s stockholder, including the objectives, the risk and audit indices, and internal control of the bank, is recognized as the foundation...

This study, by using various dimensions of customer satisfaction, investigates and compares the level of customer satisfaction between two leading telecom companies of Bangladesh, Grameen Phone Ltd (GP) and Robi. To collect the primary data, a structured questionnaire was designed and administered on 400 samples comprising of the existing subscribers of both the companies. Results show that in ...