BACKGROUND The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) launched the EvidenceNOW Initiative to rapidly disseminate and implement evidence-based cardiovascular disease (CVD) preventive care in smaller primary care practices. AHRQ funded eight grantees (seven regional Cooperatives and one independent national evaluation) to participate in EvidenceNOW. The national evaluation examines qua...

This study aims to examine the effect of entrepreneurial orientation, knowledge management, and innovation on organizational performance. uses explanatory research with a quantitative approach. The population in this was made up Malang City consumer cooperatives. employed purposive sampling technique. sample 60 Data collected through surveys, documentation, use Likert scales test instruments. d...

The Asian and Pacific region is home for over 60 percent of the world’s population and more than 70 percent of the region’s population lives in rural areas and primarily involved in agriculture. Integrating and empowering rural women by promoting women’s entrepreneurship in green cooperatives has been recognized as an important approach to alleviate rural poverty and enhancing sustainable rural...

Several definitions of diversification exist. Such motivation for diversification could apply Typically, the concept is dynamic and refers to-the equally to proprietary or cooperative forms of relationship among various activities or enterprises in business. which the firm is engaged. As new activities are The purpose of this paper is to quantitatively acquired by a firm from some existing base...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between intellectual capital (IC), which represented by structural (SC), relational [RC], and human (HC), member participation (MP) performance within context agricultural cooperatives. This employs a survey technique involving 104 palm oil smallholders’ cooperatives in Peninsular Malaysia, data are analyzed through partial least squa...

The growth of organizations and consequently the increase in their structural complexity, have required greater competence formulation execution strategies that make it possible to overcome growing market demands order achieve purposes. Thus, there is a need for professional management structuring corporate governance mechanisms. In this sense, study aimed analyze level adoption Corporate Gover...

Various models of organization for networks of financial cooperatives are found around the world. The current situation, especially in terms of quality of governance, outreach and efficiency, appears to have been influenced significantly by the importance placed on the type of network organization chosen in the past. For example, European federated networks of financial cooperatives present cer...

This article describes charitable hospitals in Brazil that provide managed care and the health management organizations themselves, considering the level of autonomy by the latter in relation to the hospitals and their degree of management development, based on a nationwide study. A random sample of individual hospitals was drawn from the hospital groups. After refusals and replacements, the fi...