Results We interviewed 21 chief investigators, 10 trial managers and 17 PPI contributors from 28 trials. Over half the informants indicted that PPI had made a difference, influencing either an aspect of a trial, or how trialists felt about a trial. Informants described how PPI’s impact depended on the quality of chief investigators’ goals and plans for PPI, the quality of relationships between ...

The article implements aspects of managing the potential agro-industrial enterprises in consumer market. A comprehensive methodological approach to diagnosing model assessing management is proposed, which on basis mathematical apparatus fuzzy theories allows optimize its level chain aggregate components, reduce pressure factors limit competitive position businesses It proved that economic diagn...

sociology of medical education is an area of sociology that could well link the two fields of medical sciences and social sciences together. sociologists believe that the scope of medical science deals with problems and realities much graeter than medical techniques and practices, of which sociology of medical education, described as one of the effective institutions of society as well as medic...

Psychiatry is a young, still developing science, that must, against sharp opposition, gradually achieve the position it deserves according to its scientific and practical importance. There is no doubt that it will achieve this position—for it has at its disposal the same weapons which have served the other branches of medicine so well: clinical observation, the microscope and experimentation. E...

Purpose: the article aims at justification and identification of factors hindering effective implementation management systems ESG-transformation, taking into account new risks threats to sustainable development, substantiation mechanisms that ensure its implementation.Methods: along with traditional methods scientific analysis, interdisciplinary approach typical for study development problems ...

We examine the operating performance of Thai firms after they go public. Overall, we find that their performance declines. We then explore the relationship between managerial ownership and the change in firm performance. We find that firms with ‘low’ and ‘high’ levels of managerial ownership experience positive relationships between managerial ownership and the change in performance (alignment-...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the issues involved in managerial control and managerial identity in relation to the idea of a post-bureaucratic organization. In addition it introduces the papers in this special issue. Design/methodology/approach The paper identifies the increasing complexity of issues of managerial control and managerial identity that arise from ...