The knowledge-based view of the firm has led to greater theoretical interest in how organizations integrate their knowledge resources embedded in people’s expertise. We examine the knowledge integration problem in geographically dispersed professional organizations in which experts work in project teams. From consideration of coordination costs and local ties, we argue that (1) the organization...

PURPOSE The aim of the research is to get to know opinions of primary health care managers concerning working of primary health care and concerning quality of medical services offered by family doctors out-patient clinics. MATERIAL AND METHODS The research among managers of primary health care units took place in all out-patient clinics in Lublin province. Research instrument was survey quest...

OBJECTIVES To describe progress and perceived challenges in implementing the NHS information and technology (IT) programme in England. DESIGN Case studies and in-depth interviews, with themes identified using a framework developed from grounded theory. We interviewed personnel who had been interviewed 18 months earlier, or new personnel in the same posts. SETTING Four NHS acute hospital tru...

Ecological disturbances of forests by insects have a complex array of associated human dimensions presenting complications for natural resource decision making and relationships between stakeholders and managers. This article discusses the human context of forest disturbances by insects by reviewing four cases of bark beetle forest disturbance from British Columbia in Canada, Bavarian Forest Na...

The report develops best practices to guide local governments in implementing business intelligence (BI) systems. Fifteen academic sources were reviewed and categorized as: challenges in BI implementations, best practices in BI implementations, and lessons learned from local government IT projects. The sources examine BI from the private and public sector. There are limited sources specific to ...

The paper investigates the role of trust in fund managers’ investment process. Three types of trust personal trust, organizational trust and system trust have been identified in Chinese fund managers’ investment practice. The impacts of different types of trust on mutual funds’ performance are then examined empirically. Through an in-depth investigation of 96 actively managed Chinese mutual fun...

This article investigates how managers in public-private partnership (PPP) projects respond to social or physical events during the implementation of their projects, and which of their responses produce satisfactory outcomes. Multi-value Qualitative Comparative Analysis (mvQCA) was used to examine the events that took place during a large Dutch Design, Build, Finance and Maintain (DBFM) transpo...

Much of the literature on citizen participation in the budget process links the council-manager form of government with higher levels of citizen participation, assuming the council-manager form represents professional administration. This is contradictory to the reality that different forms of government have “borrowed” features from each other and many now have mixed forms of government (i.e.,...

The communications of emergency response managers were tracked during simulated catastrophic events at a university campus in the Washington, D.C. region. Local, state, and federal response managers interacted with each other and with students using a variety of communication media in order to investigate the utility of new communication channels for emergency response management. Students and ...