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...

The intraaortic balloon pump (IABP) is the single most effective and widely used device for temporary mechanical assistance of the failing heart. Although the principles underlying IABP function are simple, various biologic factors often determine its performance in a particularly complicated way. We briefly describe the basic disciplines of counterpulsation by IABP and the induced hemodynamic ...

Purpose While digitalisation requires facilities management (FM) organisations to change at an increasing rate, little is known about the mechanisms that create ownership and enable individuals implement changes in everyday FM practice. In this study, these are explored from a stewardship perspective. The purpose of paper provide insights into dynamics organisational by analysing how behaviour ...

With organisational work increasingly performed by the collaboration of distributed groups, an improved understanding is needed of the co-creation of knowledge in emerging virtual structures. We explore the potential of the ubiquitous organisational tool, electronic mail (e-mail), for supporting collaborative knowledge creation in such settings. This research draws on a case study of knowledge ...

Abstract Political parties are an important part of the institutional framework for migrants’ political integration, but remain underdeveloped area research in literature on opportunity structures (POS) migrants. Departing from POS framework, this article addresses question what role intra-party structure candidate recruitment has enabling career path people with migrant background. It focuses ...

BACKGROUND While health care services are beginning to implement system-wide patient safety interventions, evidence on the efficacy of these interventions is sparse. We know that uptake can be variable, but we do not know the factors that affect uptake or how the interventions establish change and, in particular, whether they influence patient outcomes. We conducted a systematic review to ident...

Supply chain management (SCM) is the integrated management of business links, information flows and people. It is with this frame of reference that information systems integration from both intraand inter-organisational levels becomes significant. Enterprise application integration (EAI) has emerged as software technologies to address the issue of integrating the portfolio of SCM components bot...

This work is supported by Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship grant MEIF-CT2005-025239 within the 6 European Community Framework Programme. See project website http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/c.zirpins/paris for additional information. Virtual organisation of collaborative networks frequently demands for information and communication technology to support coordination of crossorganisational bus...

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major health problem in Zambia, despite considerable efforts to control and prevent it. With this study, we aim to understand how perceptions and cultural, social, economic, and organisational factors influence TB patients' pre-hospital delay and non-compliance with care provided by the National Tuberculosis Programme (NTP). METHODS A mixed methods study...