The use of electronic commerce in international business transactions has yet to be studied extensively. Compared to nationally-based electronic commerce, very few authors have empirically studied the extent of international electronic commerce. The objective of this paper is to develop a better and fuller understanding of the usage of electronic commerce among the numerous parties involved in ...

Extant literature demonstrates that participating policies mitigate shareholder-policyholder incentive conflicts in stock insurance firms. However, extending the argument in Mayers and Smith (1994), the authors formally show that participating policies also exacerbate the shareholder-manager incentive conflicts in stock insurance firms. In this article, the authors test whether hypotheses deriv...

background: the iranian healthcare system is primarily an insurance based system. this structure has an important influence on the efficiency and equity of the provision of healthcare in iran. this paper reviews the history of the iranian healthcare system and the impact of the iranian health insurance system on healthcare performance based on the results of interviews with key opinion leaders ...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS (1) To determine the characteristics of outpatient otolaryngology offices with an electronic medical record (EMR) system, and (2) to compare those characteristics with the trends in surgical and medical specialties. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis of U.S. representative data from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS). METHODS The 2005 to 2010 NAMCS ...

In the past twenty years, range of electronic services offered by educational institutions in Bulgaria has increased substantially, allowing schools, universities, and vocational training centers to offer flexible learning options. These capabilities proved essential during COVID-19 pandemic when most switched online teaching. The share service users among population between 16 74 years age alm...

This study draws attention to the ubiquitous and borderless nature of cybercrime. It examines the prospect of introducing customized cyber insurance policy in the Nigerian market. As secondary data was not available, the study conducted a survey by administering three sets of questionnaire to purposively selected top executives in four Trade Groups that rely heavily on Internet transactions for...