Private Equity Purchases of Retina Practices: Their Focus on Profit Is a Threat to Healthcare

Identifying effective factors on profit of public equity firms

Identification of influential factors of firms has always been one of the main concerns for both academics and practitioners in the realm of finance. The aim of this study is to identify the role of managers of the firms on this issue. Statistical society of this research is all the public equity firms of Tehran which are registered in Tehran Stock Exchange. The sample is 61 of those firms in d...

Professional Practices Promoting Health of Healthcare Workers: Comparison of Public and Private Hospitals in Pakistan

Can private equity deliver on equity?

a Save the Children UK, 1 St John’s Lane, London, EC1M 4AR, England. Correspondence to Giorgio Cometto (e-mail: [email protected]). In June 2009, a new Health in Africa Fund was launched by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the branch of The World Bank group mandated with supporting and expanding the private for-profit sector. This Fund will be managed by Aureos Capital, a p...

Ranking Decision Making Units based on their profit in competition to reach a ‎standard level

The full ranking or complete ranking of decision making units is one of the main ‎issues in data envelopment analysis. A full ranking is a ranking that considers all ‎efficient and inefficient units simultaneously and finds a ranking for them. Almost all ‎of the developed ranking methods consider only the efficient units. On the other hand, ‎ranking inefficient units by traditional data envelop...

The impact of information technology capability on firm performance; a focus on employeecustomer profit chain

Employee-customer-profit(ECP) chain is one of the guidelines for organizations‘success in their life cycle. Strong relationships have been found betweenemployees' attitudes and behaviors, employees' behaviors and customers'impressions, and customers' impressions and revenue growth. Out of this chain,there are some factors that can influence the processes through which these factorsinteract. One...