Authority and experience

Strategic outsourcing by a regional health authority: the experience of the Vancouver Island Health Authority.

Introduction This paper is based on the experience of the Vancouver Island Health Authority’s (VIHA’s) outsourcing initiatives for select support services as well as residential care and assisted living. I describe the formation and functions of health authorities in British Columbia (BC) in general and VIHA in particular. I also address the initiatives VIHA undertook in support of its strategi...

Service user involvement, authority and the ‘expert-by-experience’ in mental health

Disobedience and Authority

This paper presents a theory of the allocation of authority in an organization in which centralization is limited by the agent’s ability to disobey the principal. We show that workers are given more authority when they are costly to replace or do not mind looking for another job, even if they have no information advantage over the principal. The allocation of authority thus depends on external ...

The World of Research and Its Mysteries; Scientific Authority

سخن سردبیر Editorial مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی رفسنجان دوره 20، آذر 1400، 954-953         دنیای پژوهش و رمز و رازهای آن؛ مرجعیت علمی   The World of Research and Its Mysteries; Scientific Authority   محسن رضائیان[1]   M. Rezaeian   تا کنون در مورد پنج راز مهم دنیای پژوهش یعنی: خلاقیت و نوآوری [1]، کار بدون وقفه [2]، انتخاب یک یا دو موضوع اصلی مورد علاقه [3] شفافیت و صداقت در انجام ...

Authority and Contract∗

Previous analysis of contract damages supposes that the courts take a passive role in the determination of breach. However, a review of the case law for construction contracts reveals that the courts often inquire in to the scope of individual authority, and use this information to determine breach. This paper integrates such allocation of authority in a two period contract model with bilateral...