We investigate the determinants of international joint venture (IJV) stability and mortality in emerging markets. We propose that IJV stability is reduced with changes in the external regulatory regime, but can be enhanced by certain internal organizational conditions. These conditions include complementarity in resource contributions of partners, a correspondence between these contributions an...

Discovering the organizational principles of genetic expression has recently become an arena of substantial investigative effort and modeling challenges. Laboratory findings of geneticists can be couched in terms of classes of stoichiometric networks that through stability analysis lead to classes of matrix patterns. In particular, targets, blocks, and decoys are variables in genetic systems wi...

2013 saw the National Health Service (NHS) in England severely criticized for providing poor quality despite successive governments in the previous 15 years, establishing a range of new institutions to improve NHS quality. This study seeks to understand the contributions of political and organizational influences in enabling the NHS to deliver high-quality care through exploring the experiences...

Written communication scholarship has shown that successful social change requires discursive stability. This study was designed to investigate how this stability is created. Critical discourse analysis of 30 corporate university articles investigated claims authors made about the expansion of market-based values into contexts of organizational learning and academic higher education. In total, ...

AIM To investigate how nurses and physicians perceive organizational culture, their integration into the organizational processes, and relations within a health care team. METHODS We performed a cross-sectional study that included 106 physicians and 558 nurses from 14 Slovenian hospitals in December 2005. The hospitals were randomly selected. We distributed the questionnaires on the same day ...