This paper raises a challenge for those who assume that corporate social responsibility and good corporate governance naturally go hand-in-hand. The recent spate of corporate scandals in the United States and elsewhere has dramatized, once again, the severity of the agency problems that may arise between managers and shareholders. These scandals remind us that even if we adopt an extremely narr...

Knowledge Management (KM) has developed at an unsually fast rate as a field of practice and learning. This paper tracks the seeds of the movement, the institutionalization process and some early signs of the role it might eventually play in the emergence of a global consciousness. Three business drivers for the fast growth of the KM movement are identified and dimensioned: i) the shrinking cycl...

BACKGROUND Disruptive behavior is common in Alzheimer disease (AD). There are conflicting reports regarding its ability to predict cognitive decline, functional decline, institutionalization, and mortality. OBJECTIVE To examine whether the presence of disruptive behavior has predictive value for important outcomes in AD. DESIGN Using the Columbia University Scale for Psychopathology in Alzh...

OBJECTIVE to investigate the association between frailty with hospitalization and institutionalization in a follow-up study of elderly residents. METHOD the follow-up study was performed in 2008 and 2013 with elderly of both genders, aged 65 years and older who were living in the community-dwelling. The sampling procedure performed was probabilistic, with dual-stage clustering. In 2008, 515 e...

BACKGROUND Frontal-subcortical clinical syndrome (FSCS) is frequently described in elderly patients and consists of specific alterations in cognition and motor functions. This clinical picture may be associated with a high level of dependence and a high mortality risk. OBJECTIVE We report the risks of institutionalization and death during a follow-up of 4 years in patients showing FSCS. MET...

Virtual Business Communities (VBC) are market organizations, supported by Information and Communication Technology, that improve business interactions and the exchange of information and knowledge in virtual networks of organizations. In the inter-organizational context of a VBC, governance is related to division of work and distribution of power and responsibility. Only a small number of autho...

In this paper we analyze the role of Enterprise Systems (ES) in shaping a company’s transformation process by conducting an in-depth case study in a large European high-tech company. Although there are previous studies concerning organizational transformation and ES implementation process, the role of ES as an instrument for de-institutionalization is not well understood. By drawing on the fr...

BACKGROUND Community-based and institutional dementia care has been compared in cross-sectional studies, but longitudinal information on the effect of institutionalization on health care service utilization is sparse. METHODS We analyzed claims data from 651 dementia patients via Generalized Estimation Equations to assess health care service utilization profiles and corresponding expenditures...

SCHIZOPHRENICS excite a good deal of behavioral research, the goal of much of this research is to produce information concerning the etiology of schizophrenia. It may be difficult, however, to isolate such etiological factors through studies carried out with individuals who have lived through the process of becoming and being schizophrenic. The behavior of these individuals may be markedly alte...

The aim of this study was to describe the differences in the profile of elderly residents in non-profit and for-profit Long-Term Residential Institutions for the Elderly (ILPI). We visited 12 ILPIs in the city of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte. Six of them were non-profits housing 260 elderly, and six were for-profit institutions, housing 127 elderly. The unequal characteristics of the elderly in t...