PURPOSE OF THE STUDY This study identified approaches to diabetes self-management that differentiate persons with well-controlled from poorly controlled diabetes. Previous research has focused largely on persons participating in self-management interventions. DESIGN AND METHODS In-depth qualitative interviews were conducted with 48 adults, drawn from a population-based sample aged 65 years or...

Introduction Informal patient payments for healthcare are common in the Western Balkans, negatively affecting public health and healthcare.   Aim To identify literature from the Western Balkans on what is known about informal patient payments and bought and brought goods, to examine their effects on healthcare and to determine what actions can be taken to tackle these payments.   Methods After ...

Received: 24 November 2004 Revised: 6 March 2005 2nd Revision: 22 April 2005 Accepted: 5 May 2005 Abstract Enterprise systems are gaining interest from both practitioners and researchers because of their potential linkages to organizational and individual user’s productivity. Information systems (IS) researchers have been investigating the implementation and adoption issues of enterprise system...

background: informal payments in the health sector of many developing countries are considered as a major impediment to health care reforms. informal payments are a form of systemic fraud and have adverse effects on the performance of the health system. in this study, the frequency and extent of informal payments as well as the determinants of these payments were investigated in general hospita...

Previous research on the care-giver burden experienced by adult children has typically focused on the adult child and parent dyad. This study uses information on multiple informal care-givers and examines how characteristics of the informal care-giving network affect the adult child's care-giver burden. In 2007, 602 Dutch care-givers who were assisting their older parents reported on parental a...

We apply the viable system model (VSM) in the management control system (MCS) area in order to address the multifarious relationships between enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and budgeting through the introduction of five research criteria: ERP system, budgeting, informal control, organizational hierarchy and the relationships among them. The research question discussed is: How can we...

Applications often use behavior control mechanisms in order to ensure that individuals create sufficiently strong passwords. Behavior controls, which force individuals to utilize specific password characteristics, are assumed to be the best mechanism to encourage strong password creation. However, an over reliance on them could lead to counterproductive security behaviors. This study examines t...

This paper studies management control design of supplier relationships in manufacturing, a supply chain phase currently under-explored. Compared to supplier relations during procurement and R&D, which research found to be governed by a combination of formal and informal controls, supplier relations in manufacturing are more formal, so that they could be governed by more formal and less informal...