In IT Outsourcing, strategic alignment between a customer and an IT outsourcing provider is very important. This article uses resource-based theory, social capital theory, and organizational learning theory to analyze the relationship between a customer and a provider in IT services Outsourcing context. Based on the former analysis, this article applies a strategic alignment model for managing ...

INTRODUCTION As patients become increasingly involved in their medical care, physician-patient communication gains importance. A previous study showed that physician self-disclosure (SD) of personal information by primary care providers decreased patient rating of the provider communication skills. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to explore the incidence and impact of emergency depa...

BACKGROUND Today, in several north-western European countries, patients are encouraged to choose, actively, a healthcare provider. However, patients often visit the provider that is recommended by their general practitioner (GP). The introduction of patient choice requires GPs to support patients to be involved, actively, in the choice of a healthcare provider. We aim to investigate whether pol...

a central problem in designing effective models of provider governance in health systems has been to ensure an appropriate balance between the concerns of public sector and/or government decision-makers, on the one hand, and of non-governmental health services actors in civil society and private life, on the other. in tax-funded european health systems up to the 1980s, the state and other publi...

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The scalability of Hierarchical Virtual Private LAN Service (H-VPLS) with Ethernet access networks (RFC 4762) can be improved by incorporating Provider Backbone Bridge functionality in the VPLS access. Provider Backbone Bridging has been standardized as IEEE 802.1ah-2008. It aims to improve the scalability of Media Access Control (MAC) addresses and service instances in Provider Ethernet networ...

Many cryptographic schemes based on the bilinear pairings, namely the Weil pairing and the Tate pairing, were proposed recently. In this paper, we show that from these pairing-based cryptographic primitives, signature-masked authentication schemes can be developed. In such a scheme, a legitimate user obtains a signature from a Certificate Authority, and in order to get services from a service p...

Penelitian ini bertujuan mengetahui pengaruh adaptive selling yang terdapatpadaword of mouth melalui Custumer owned loyalty dan to the service provider pada Hotel Respatih Kasih.Penelitian menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif. Teknik accidental purposive sampling. Berdasarkan teknik pengambilan sampel, maka didapat sampel sebanyak 100 orang. Alat uji analisis data dipakai dalam penelitian dengan ...