Creating and sustaining competitive advantages is the number one priority of any organisation. Companies are trying to be competitive through continously building their innovative capability and creating innovative product and services. Literature has identified several factors affecting the innovation capability of the firms. Organisational culture is argued to be one of them and has implicati...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To assess the association of patient and organisational factors with emergency department length of stay (ED-LOS) in elderly ED patients (226565 years old) and in younger patients (<65 years old). METHODS A retrospective cohort study of internal medicine patients visiting the emergency department between September 1st 2010 and August 31st 2011 was performed. All emergency depa...

BACKGROUND Systemic and structural issues of rapid response system (RRS) models can hinder implementation. This study sought to understand the ways in which acute care clinicians (physicians and nurses) experience and negotiate care for deteriorating patients within the RRS. METHODS Physicians and nurses working within an Australian academic health centre within a jurisdictional-based model o...

Background As the under-representation of women in management positions continues to persist globally, little is known about the experiences of women in the healthcare sector in the context of the developing Middle Eastern nations. In an attempt to address this knowledge gap, the current study explores some of the barriers that hinder and the enablers that foster women’s career advancement in t...

This paper examines the theoretical and practical problems that arise from attempts to develop formal characterisations and explanations of many work activities; in particular, collaborative activities. We argue that even seemingly discrete individual activities occur in, and frequently draw upon a complex network of factors: individual, social and organisational. Similarly, organisational and ...

This perspective argues that for-profit hospitals will be heavily affected by epidemic crises, including the current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak. Policy-makers should be aware that for-profit hospitals in particular are likely to face financial distress. The suspension of all non-urgent elective surgery and the relegation of market-based mechanisms that...

Aims To understand nurse leader and manager perspectives on employee engagement their own role to foster engagement. examine differences between managers of units with high versus low Background Health systems recognize the impact engagement, yet alignment frontline–manager remains unclear. Methods A qualitative study at Veteran Affairs New England Healthcare System. Leaders five facilities (N ...

A well-functioning Knowledge Management is a competitive advantage for enterprises that act in co-operative and distributed networks with knowledge intensive production processes. A Knowledge Management approach that integrates both, hard factors (e.g., Information Technology) and soft factors (e.g., cultural aspects) for distributed and dynamic entrepreneurial (inter-organisational) networks i...

This paper is a literature review submitted as part of the academic requirements of the BSc Honours Degree course I am currently pursuing. The topic I chose to review was whistleblowing in nursing, more specifically why nurses do not whistleblow. Because of cases such as the Leas cross Inquiry and the Rostrevor case coming to the forefront of Irish media in recent times, interest for this liter...