Broadening the perspective

Broadening the perspective on marketing decision models

Marketing models are of invaluable importance for the advancement of marketing science. Regarding the role of models in marketing decision-making in practice we question the claim that marketing models are routinely used by many companies. Marketing models are suitable for certain types of marketing decision situations but much less for others. We Ž . advocate the development of integrated mark...

Animal Rights: Broadening Our Perspective; Broadening Our Base

Broadening the perspective on radiography education

The environment within which diagnostic radiographers work is in a state of continual flux. Some of this change originates from the rapidly evolving technologies which radiographers utilise. In 1990, Stephen Barley hypothesised that changing technology affects roles, relationships and networks within organisations. In this article we suggest that changing technologies have had an important impa...

Economics and preventing hospital-acquired infection: broadening the perspective.

OBJECTIVE To present a hypothetical model of the change in economic costs and health benefits to society that result from nosocomial infection control programs. DESIGN We use a modeling framework to represent how 2 types of costs change with nosocomial infection control programs: costs incurred by the hospital sector and community health services, as well as the private costs to patients. We ...

Broadening the Perspective on Gun Violence: An Examination of the Firearms Industry, 1990-2015.

INTRODUCTION Firearm violence injures or kills 100,000 Americans each year. This paper applies the Host-Agent-Vector-Environment model to this issue. Research on firearm violence tends to focus on two elements-the host (i.e., victims of firearm violence) and the environment (i.e., gun policies)-but little attention has been paid to the agent (the gun and ammunition) or the vector (firearm manuf...