i p k c o C q c w r b c everal epidemiologic studies, survey data, and a growing body of literature confirm the persistence f disparities in health care associated with women’s ace, ethnicity, income, education, and other factors Institute of Medicine, 2002; Kaiser Family Foundaion, 2004, 2005; National Women’s Law Center 2004; gency for Healthcare Research and Quality [AHRQ], 003a,b, 2004a,b, ...

This paper analyses the sources of buyer power and its e¤ect on sellers’ investment in quality improvements. In our model retailers make takeit-or-leave-it o¤ers to a producer and each of them obtains its marginal contribution to total pro…ts (gross of sunk costs). In turn, this depends on the rivalry between retailers in the bargaining process. Rivalry increases when the retailers are less di¤...

information asymmetry and conflicts of interest between management and shareholders lead to the phenomenon of moral hazard. moral hazard means that the managers may make some decisions (e.g. investment decisions) that do not meet the interests of shareholders. inefficient investment decisions include over or under-investment in firms’ labor and utilize the non-optimal number of human resources ...

How adversely would your product be affected by the loss or gain of a data source? Can a data quality assessment help your product’s position in the negotiation? Through documenting a real-world case study, this presentation explores how one company’s internal Data Quality Scorecard system was used as leverage at the negotiation table. The paper examines how data quality can drive service-level...

Objective –This study intends to examine the relationship between investment efficiency and financial information excellence. The study is also examining the moderating impact of sustainability on the relation between excellence in financial information and investment productivity. Methodology –The cumulative measurements are 668 firm-years and are made up of 257 subsamples of underinvestment a...

Software managers pursuing process improvement initiatives are confronted with the problem of selecting potential improvements. In the field of software quality assurance, suitable decision support for prioritizing the optimization of activities according to their return on investment is not yet available. Our paper addresses this research gap. We develop a decision support scheme that facilita...