Quality measurement and feedback programs have become widespread and are looked upon as a cornerstone of quality improvement efforts. Often, such programs are used to motivate consumer choice through public report cards or to reward high quality care through pay for performance programs. Physicians' views on performance measurement and feedback programs, however, are rarely sought, despite the ...

National and local “economic development programs” – programs that provide assistance to individual businesses with tax or financial subsidies, or special public services, in order to increase local jobs or improve local businesses’ competitiveness – have become prominent and controversial. The paper illustrates the basic principles of development agencies that are not invariable and specific s...

Over the past decades terms such as regionalism, regionalization, ‘regional multinationals’, and ‘liability of regional foreignness’ have populated International Business and Global Strategy research. Notwithstanding their popularity, the definition of the term ‘region’ is ambiguous, which results in a lack of systematic use in research as well as in the insights generated from this construct. ...

negotiations among nations on policies to promote international economic integration have widened in recent years to cover new issues; for example, foreign direct investment rules, policies to promote competition, the international movement of labor, the environment and monetary :union:. in these negotiations, a consensus among the parties negotiating is usually lacking and many of these negoti...

Abstract This paper analyzes Israel’s changing understanding of its geostrategic posture from establishment in 1948 to the current era. It starts by reviewing traditional Israeli ideas and their implementation, mostly, as reflected nation’s national security doctrine. The then investigates effect territorial expansion after 1967 on about geostrategy. Finally, shows how global, regional, technol...

This article explores the strategies used by Israeli students to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in the interactive computer game, PeaceMaker. Students played PeaceMaker in the roles of both the Israeli Prime Minister and the Palestinian President in random order. Students must take actions satisfying constituents on both sides of the conflict in order to win the game. The diversity of...

The article is devoted to the study of the process of development of regions as a promising area of industrial tourism. The authors researched the marketing strategies of industrial tourism, studied, proposed an algorithm for selecting a marketing strategy for the development of industrial tourism and the concept of developing a marketing strategy for the development of industrial tourism. They...

in the middle east since the end of the ww ii, we have witnessed a growing influence of the military in civilian affairs, the use of force as a frequently-used instrument of political power and dominance, the importance of military values, the increasing significance of the role of the regional military establishment in domestic and international affairs, and the growth in the number of paramil...