Strategic plans and long‐range plans: is there a difference?

Delayed enrollment and College Plans: is There a Postponement Penalty?

Using a representative longitudinal survey of Texas high school seniors who graduated in 2002, we investigate how college postponement is associated with four-year college expectations and attendance-focusing both on the length of delay and the pathway to the postsecondary system. Like prior studies, we show that family background and student academic achievement explains the negative associati...

Institutionalism in Strategic Structural Plans (A Grounded Theory Approach)

Nowadays, planning is no longer considered merely a scientific and technical career nor agovernment responsibity. It rather functions as a bridge connecting the planners to institutional changes. In otherwords, the planning theory does not develop in a social, economic and political vacuum, but is formulated byindividuals in social situations with the aim of clarifying the enviroment recommendi...

Hospitals Strategic and Operational Plans: Unwillingness, lack of Success, and prosperity: A letter to the editor

The effects of HMO ownership on hospital costs and revenues: is there a difference between for-profit and nonprofit plans?

We conducted multivariate analyses to examine whether high health maintenance organization (HMO) penetration and large share of for-profit health plans in a market reduced hospital cost and revenue growth rates between 1989 and 1998. We found that hospitals in high HMO areas experienced revenue and cost growth rates that were 21 and 18 percentage points, respectively, below hospitals in low HMO...

Preparing strategic information management plans for hospitals: a practical guideline: SIM plans for hospitals: a guideline

OBJECTIVES Systematic information management in hospitals demands for a strategic information management plan (SIM plan). As preparing a SIM plan is a considerable challenge we provide a practical guideline that is directly applicable when a SIM plan is going to be prepared. METHODS The guideline recommends a detailed structure of a SIM plan and gives advice about its content and the preparat...