BACKGROUND Models of between-farm transmission of pathogens have identified service vehicles and social groups as risk factors mediating the spread of infection. Because of high levels of economic organization in much of the poultry industry, we examined the importance of company affiliation, as distinct from social contacts, in a model of the potential spread of avian influenza among broiler p...

The globalization of industry and commerce creates an imperative to understand how business leaders from different parts of the world make decisions. A recent study used the Decision Styles Inventory to compare the decision making of American business leaders with those of counterparts from Asia’s two largest economies – Japan and the People’s Republic of China. American, Chinese and Japanese b...

This study examines key mechanisms through which CEO narcissism influences global performance variance in the context of Asian emerging market multinational enterprises. Building on contextual reinforcement model and cushion hypothesis, we focus role foreign direct investment (FDI) risk-taking business group affiliation (BGA). We test our moderated mediation data from 149 South Korean enterpris...

This session will advance the development of sustainable complementary and integrative medicine (CIM) practice models by presenting the business plan for a model integrative primary care clinic, its results to date, and the plan for its continuous evaluation. The Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine recently opened the University of Arizona Integrative Health Center (UAIHC), an adult primary...

This study proposes a Supplier Quality Affiliation (SQA) approach that is integrated into a mixed integer programming Strategic Supply Chain Management (SSCM) model for overall improvement of the supply chain business process. A pool of acceptable quality and high quality suppliers are affiliated using multi-dimensional quality attributes for the supplier operation parameters in the SQA model. ...

Our society contains all types of organizations, such as companies, research groups and hobby clubs. Affiliation networks, as a large and important portion of social networks, consist of individuals and their affiliation relations: Two individuals are connected by a link if they belong to the same organization(s). Affiliation networks naturally contain many fully connected cliques, since the no...

The present study examines whether business group affiliates engage in social capital and knowledge sharing relations with firms within their groups more than they do peers outside the group. In addition, this compares affiliated independent terms of performance innovation. Using survey data from 128 Turkish manufacturing firms, findings indicate that while firms’ show significant differences t...