Healthcare technology markets have been recently identified as potential investment targets. Having survived a major environmental shock, the dot. com bust, firms in the healthcare technology industry are presently experiencing an impressive revenue growth. In this study, we investigate the strategies of Emdeon Corporation, a healthcare technology firm whose e-business model provides clues for ...

Taiwan economy has always been export-oriented, creating tightly-linked industrial chains between cross-straits companies tightly. Understanding the influence of transforming industrial patterns of major economic entities would be critical for long-term cooperative small economic entities (countries or regions) in the periphery. The author of this paper has thus analyzed the influences and ...

this descriptive cross sectional census study identified the perceptions of extension and outreach employees of iowa state university in the united states about job autonomy and control after two years of a major restructuring. employees perceived autonomy and control over expressing views and ideas about their work and spending time on the job but perceived little influence over budget allocat...

the cyclical economic downturn in the united states has forced many extension administrators to rethink and adjust services and programming. the cooperative extension system (ces), the organization primarily responsible for governmental extension work in the united states, at iowa state university responded to this economic downturn by restructuring its organization from county based to a regio...

The fourth industrial revolution is affecting companies and leading to new strategic thinking. changes brought about by the requirements of Industry 4.0 are forcing restructuring in many areas management or building business models.

In Cobol, procedures can be programmed in ways that lead to unexpected behaviour and reduced portability. This behaviour is recognized as so-called ‘mines’: programming practices containing hidden dangers and requiring extreme caution. Cobol mines can be created intentionally or by a programming error, and can be tripped at an unforeseen moment. This leads to minefields in source code with unse...

The Industrial Restructuring Project (IRP) was initiated at the beginning of 1996 as the KwaZulu-Natal Industrial Restructuring Project (KZN IRP). The project initially focused exclusively on KwaZuluNatal, but is now aimed at supporting industrial policy in South Africa at the national, provincial and local levels. It is facilitated by international experts and is based at the School of Develop...

Game theory has been applied during the last two decades to an ever increasing number of important practical problems in economics, industrial organization, business strategy, finance, accounting, market design and marketing; including antitrust analyses, monetary policy, and firm restructuring. In this paper we give insight into the growing role of game theory, and particularly of the principa...