Research Questions Broadly, we sought to explore the role of regional policy in sport institutions and understand their implications for organizational fields multi-level governance systems. Our research questions were (1) how do changes impact way that are structured within structures? (2) does implementation?

Sustainable digital access to cultural heritage has become an important policy goal and field of research. In Flanders (Belgium), a collaborative interdisciplinary research project is being carried out that looks into challenges posed by sustainable digital archiving and access as they affect cultural, educational and scientific sectors. This presentation focuses on the challenges that need to ...

Patients, providers, and policy leaders need a new moral compass to guide them in the turbulent U.S. health care system. Task forces have proposed excellent ethical codes, but these have been seen as too abstract to provide guidance at the front lines. Harvard Pilgrim Health Care's ten-year experience with an organizational ethics program suggests ways in which health care organizations can str...

The organizational reform of public hospitals is part of the health policy agenda worldwide as a reaction to inefficient and low quality performance in public institutions. A central theme of these reforms is the possibility of improving performance in public settings in corporatized forms i.e. under semiautonomous circumstances. Central and East European countries face the problem of an oversi...

Kathleen M. Carley Social and Decision Sciences H. J. Heinz III School of Policy and Management Engineering and Public Policy Carnegie Mellon University December 2000 Running Head: Intra-organizational Complexity and Computation Direct all correspondence to: Prof. Kathleen M. Carley Dept. of Social and Decision Sciences Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Email: [email protected] ...

Fritz Zwicky pioneered the development of General Morphological Analysis (GMA) as a method for investigating the totality of relationships contained in multi-dimensional, nonquantifiable problem complexes. During the past two decades, GMA has been extended, computerised and employed for structuring complex policy and planning issues, developing scenario and strategy laboratories, and analyzing ...

The public research sector is changing all over Europe. New semi-public research centers have emerged and now coexist with the traditional public research centers in the same organizational field. It is argued that these changes are mostly policy-driven and that the main mechanism is the emergence of new legitimation models of what research and research centers should be for, with a strong emph...

BACKGROUND Interprofessional Primary Care Teams (IPCTs) have been shown to benefit health systems and patients, particularly those patients with complex care needs. The literature suggests a wide range of factors that may influence collaboration in IPCTs, however the evidence base is unclear for many of these factors. To target improvement efforts, we identify studies that demonstrate an associ...

This paper investigates technical and organizational tools to improve performances of a multi-state degraded system subject to multiple competing failure processes. The competing failure processes treated in this paper are oil insulating aging and electrical contacts wear out of high voltage oil circuit breaker. To degradation processes, is associated random shocks process highlighted by the st...