OBJECTIVE To examine the beliefs, attitudes, and interests of Texas pharmacists at different career stages with respect to independent pharmacy ownership. DESIGN Non-experimental, cross-sectional study. SETTING Texas in November-December 2004. PARTICIPANTS 180 practicing pharmacists. INTERVENTION Mail survey. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Pharmacists' self-reported attitudes (ranging from -90...

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the editorial is commendable and i agree with many of the points raised. management is an important aspect of health system strengthening which is often overlooked. in order to build the capacity of management, we need to consider other factors such as, the environment within which managers work, their numbers, support systems and distribution. effective leadership is an issue which cannot be o...

INTRODUCTION Although some view the ownership of firearms as a deterrent to crime, the relationship between population-level firearm ownership rates and violent criminal perpetration is unclear. The purpose of this study is to test the association between state-level firearm ownership and violent crime. METHODS State-level rates of household firearm ownership and annual rates of criminal acts...

Purchasing and supply leaders continually search for ways to improve the quality, delivery, and cost of production inputs. Their participation in these proactive supply chain activities can be a significant driver of purchasing and supply management’s use of information technology (IT). Using a transaction cost analysis perspective, we surveyed purchasing and supply professionals at the directo...

Critics of current tying doctrine argue that metering ties can increase consumer welfare and total welfare without increasing output and that they generally increase both welfare measures. Contrary to those claims, we prove that metering ties always lower both consumer welfare and total welfare unless they increase capital good output. We further show that under market conditions we argue are r...

Ownership is central in our thinking about other people and objects. We consider ownership when deciding whether we are permitted to use an object and when predicting how owners would feel if their property was lost or broken. Recognizing and understanding ownership is not just evident in adults. Even young children appreciate ownership and its consequences. In this experiment, we show that chi...

Viewing psychological ownership as a positive resource for impacting human performance in organizations, the present study investigated the components of an expanded view of psychological ownership. Confirmatory factor analyses on a proposed measure of psychological ownership provided support for a positively-oriented, ‘‘promotion-focused’’ aspect of psychological ownership comprised of four di...

This study examines the relationship between ownership structure and firm performance in Chinese companies. We hand collected ownership data on 1178 non-financial companies with a total of 5815 firm-years from annual reports. Through fixed-effect panel model, this study has the following findings. First, there is a positive relationship between firm performance and institutional ownership in Ch...