OBJECTIVE This paper uses an economic model to compare three methods for stimulating quality improvement: payment incentives, competition for patients, and emphasis on professional ethics. DESIGN Use an economic model to simulate the impact on quality distortions (risk selection) of differences in payment incentives, competition for patients, and emphasis on professional ethics. SETTING Hea...

British union revival strategies range from recruitment and US-style organising approaches and workplace partnerships through union mergers and restructuring to efforts to (re-)build political and institutional conduits. Social movement unionism (SMU), unionism which extends beyond concern with matters of job regulation to ‘reaching out’ to other groups to emphasise social justice aims, has nev...

The role of education in societal integration has been an recurrent motif in the sociology of education from its inception. Emile Durkheim (1977) in the 19 century was centrally concerned with the functions of education in cultural reproduction and the promotion of social solidarity; Talcott Parsons (1968) in the 20 followed him, designating social integration a primary task of public education...

Even prior to the recent financial and economic slowdown many enterprises had adopted Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategies to improve their relationships with customers, who are becoming more and more sensible to ethical values. Recently, companies are increasingly promoting social innovation through collaborative initiatives among business, non-profit organizations (NPO) and public...

The article studies the essence and peculiarities of using social solidarity financing mechanisms in modern economy. development economy, which balances goals priorities sustainable with values market economic system, raises issue organizations this sector that do not always adhere to economically business models. Companies economy are a tool for forming new efficient system national providing ...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to test empirically two major conceptualizations of parent-child relations in later adulthood-intergenerational solidarity-conflict and ambivalence paradigms-and their predictive validity on elders' quality of life using comparative cross-national data. METHODS Data were from a sample of 2,064 elders (aged 75 and older) from the five-country OASIS stud...