BACKGROUND The health care sector depends to a large extent on human labor. Poor worker motivation can greatly affect health outcomes and patient safety. There is little information on the health workers' perceptions of working conditions in resource-poor settings. METHOD Three state-owned facilities in each state were selected by simple random sampling technique. The selected facilities were...

Supplier development is necessary as organizations and industries are competing on the capabilities of their supply chains and not necessarily their own individual organizations. Supplier development evaluation through formal modeling and decision support approaches is limited in the literature. Formal modeling tools to aid managers in evaluating green supplier development programs are virtuall...

This paper examines the relation between dividend policy, managerial ownership and debt-financing for a large sample of firms listed on NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ. In addition to standard parametric estimation methods,weusea semi-parametric approach,whichhelps capturemoreeffectivelynon-linearities in thedata. In linewith the alignment effect ofmanagerial ownership, our results support a negative rel...

This paper describes the main characteristics of a computational environment, which is addressed to support managerial decisions into small companies. From scenarios analysis, managers can decide on the use of the company’s resource as well as they can also develop an aggregated production plan. Such a decision environment is based on a constrained linear stochastic production planning model, w...

This minitrack consists of ten papers involving theory and practice of service-based analytics (i.e., data, text and Web mining) for support if managerial decision making. These ten papers illustrate a diverse set of approaches, demonstrating the variety of ways in which modern information technologies can be applied to today’s complex decision situations. The papers in this minitrack offer som...

Resource dependence theory suggests that to function successfully, organizations must obtain certain resources controlled by actors in their environment. To do this effectively, managers often develop networking relationships with key stakeholder groups in order to make critical resources available. Managers in public service organizations, in particular, are frequently under great pressure to ...

As with many growing computer areas, the first attempts at developing a framework for the field were based on the software tools being built and the specific tasks undertaken. This paper attempts to draw decision support systems out of these early stages by proposing a more generally applicable framework for computer decision support 'Ib build this framework the paper first examines existing di...

Purpose – Research investigating the role of factors affecting open innovation remains scarce. The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of managerial ties in facilitating the two types of open innovation – in-bound and out-bound. Design/methodology/approach – Data are collected using the questionnaire survey method from 339 middle and top managers working in four high-tech industries in...

Transductive inference has been introduced as a novel paradigm towards building predictive classification models from empirical data. Such models are routinely employed to support decision making in, e.g., marketing, risk management and manufacturing. To that end, the characteristics of the new philosophy are reviewed and their implications for typical decision problems are examined. The paper’...