Operations management (OM) theory suggests that professional services have some distinct operational challenges. There is an emerging consensus that professional services are changing, due to the socio-economic and political climates in which they operate. In order to investigate these issues a systematic literature review was undertaken. This paper makes a contribution by exploring the OM lite...

PURPOSE This article is a commentary and discussion of ethical issues in dysphagia services as related to school-based practice in speech-language pathology. METHOD A review of the literature on ethical issues in the provision of speech-language pathology services to individuals with dysphagia was conducted, with particular emphasis on students receiving school-based services. RESULTS Issue...

While existing literature assumes that the human capital intensity of professional services leads to small and flimsy firms, several professional services feature large, long-lived firms. To develop insights about firm size and industry structure in human capital intensive industries, I analyze the structure and evolution of the advertising industry. Drawing on a range of quantitative and quali...

Understanding the internationalization of professional services like advertising, architecture, accounting, consulting and legal services continues to attract considerable attention in academic and policy circles. Research in geography and management studies has emphasised the different organisational strategies adopted by firms as they seek to develop and maintain a competitive position within...

BACKGROUND Access to care remains a key part of improving health care outcomes in the United States. Recent reports have suggested that the number of physicians able to meet the demands for access to care may be decreasing. METHODS We surveyed physicians practicing in rural and urban/suburban areas of Florida in 2004 to determine whether changes were occurring in health care service delivery....

Since the publication in 1989 of the white paper, Caring for People, the benefits of collaboration between primary health and social services have been emphasised—albeit with little guidance on how to achieve this. 2 The success of emergency initiatives to reduce pressure on hospital beds and, in future, health action zones, will also depend on good relationships between agencies. The recent NH...

Many young children with permanent hearing loss do not receive hearing aids and related professional services, in part because of public and private financing limitations. In 2006 the Children's Audiology Financing Workgroup was convened by the National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management to evaluate and make recommendations about public and private financing of hearing aids and relate...

Ethics is a subject that is inclusive to all aspects of human life cover. The growing human and social relationships become more complex, creates new needs are The emergence of various professions, born efforts in response to the requirements and conditions change over time, they gradually shape the evolution and development of the valley. Time and circumstances change and they gradually form e...

Professional bureaucracies of the Finnish municipal services are challenged by many modernization pressures manifested currently in the form of New Public Management. Along with efficiency demands the new emphasis is on the provision of client-oriented services by the means of multiprofessional teamwork crossing the traditional sector boundaries. This paper analyses the learning processes neede...

introduction: the goal of professional librarians and informatics is providing useful services for users. this study aims to recognize the rate of commitment and authority of librarians to ethics instruction. method: this study is an applied ex post facto research. the population of study includes all librarians of isfahan public libraries in 2012. by in access selection, 207 questionnaires wer...