Are over-paid Chief Executive Officers better innovators?

Health Management Information Systems Executives: Roles and Responsibilities of Chief Executive Officers and Chief Information Officers in Healthcare Services Organizations

What is a hospital bed day worth? A contingent valuation study of hospital Chief Executive Officers

BACKGROUND Decreasing hospital length of stay, and so freeing up hospital beds, represents an important cost saving which is often used in economic evaluations. The savings need to be accurately quantified in order to make optimal health care resource allocation decisions. Traditionally the accounting cost of a bed is used. We argue instead that the economic cost of a bed day is the better valu...

The role of chief executive officers in a quality improvement initiative: a qualitative study

OBJECTIVES To identify the critical dimensions of hospital Chief Executive Officers' (CEOs) involvement in a quality and safety and to offer practical guidance to assist CEOs to fulfil their leadership role in quality improvement (QI). DESIGN Qualitative interview study. SETTING 20 organisations participating in the main phase of the Safer Patients Initiative (SPI) programme across the UK. ...

The face of success: inferences from chief executive officers' appearance predict company profits.

First impressions are powerful and rich sources of information about other people, and studies have demonstrated that they predict performance in numerous domains, such as teaching (Ambady & Rosenthal, 1993) and electoral success (Todorov, Mandisodza, Goren, & Hall, 2005). Much of this work, however, has employed outcome variables that are subjective. For example, in the study of teacher effect...

Tweeting #Leaders: Social media communication and retweetability of Fortune 1000 chief executive officers on Twitter

Purpose To better understand executive communication on social media, this paper examines the pattern of messages posted by chief executive officers (CEOs) on Twitter and their retweetability (rate of reposting by other users). Design/methodology/approach The study data comprises 1068 original tweets randomly selected from all Fortune 1000 CEOs tweets in 2014. The impact of the contextual facto...