Relatively little is known about the role of early interventionists as teachers of caregivers. The current study was conducted to better understand interventionists’ perspectives about teaching caregivers. A national sample of 1525 multi-disciplinary interventionists completed an online questionnaire which elicited information about interventionists’ preferences for use of caregiver teaching st...

This paper focuses on the adoption of the Balanced Scorecard model [1] for strategic management by a Portuguese insurance company and presents the Decision Support System (DSS) that has been conceived and developed to embody this adoption. A special emphasis is given to the definition of a strategy, the selection of the strategic measures to analyse and monitor and to the selection of initiativ...

This article presents a review of the issues associated with a manufacturer’s pricing strategies in a twoechelon supply chain that comprises one manufacturer and two competing retailers, with warranty period-dependent demands. The manufacturer, as a Stackelberg leader, specifies wholesale prices to two competing retailers who face warranty period-dependent demand and have different sales costs....

Strategic decisions are affected by beliefs about the expectations of others and their possible decisions. Thus, strategic decisions are influenced by the social context and by beliefs about other actors’ levels of sophistication. The present study investigated whether strategic decision-making, as measured by the beauty contest game, is associated with social skills, as measured by the Autism ...

Managers are heavily engaged in strategic decision-making for businesses, particularly in a changing environment. One of the most important decisions for online small businesses, as part of their strategic planning, is selecting relevant features on their websites, both to attract and interact with consumers. However, only a few Australian small businesses use strategic tools for selecting thei...

In this paper, we highlight the involvement of Knowledge Management in a healthcare enterprise. We argue that the 'knowledge quotient' of a healthcare enterprise can be enhanced by procuring diverse facets of knowledge from the seemingly placid healthcare data repositories, and subsequently operationalising the procured knowledge to derive a suite of Strategic Healthcare Decision-Support Servic...

Strategic decision analysis on Supply Chain Management (SCM) involves tangible and intangible factors and it needs to be evaluated by interdependent multiple criteria. Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is a practical and popular decision-making tool for SCM. Interdependency among criteria becomes a source of difficulty in directly applying AHP to various SCM decision problems. Hence, the manager...

In today’s rapidly changing healthcare industry, U.S. hospitals and health systems are contending with tightening margins that conflict with an ever-expanding list of capital needs. Given competing demands on scarce capital resources, an organization’s long-term success and sustainability hinges on its ability to make smart strategic investment decisions today. The alignment of capital decision...

We address Jacoby's (1991) proposal that strategic control over knowledge requires conscious awareness of that knowledge. In a two-grammar artificial grammar learning experiment all participants were trained on two grammars, consisting of a regularity in letter sequences, while two other dimensions (colours and fonts) varied randomly. Strategic control was measured as the ability to selectively...