Objectives-To compare the perceptions ofphysician executives and clinicians regarding ethical issues in Saudi Arabian hospitals and the attributes that might lead to the existence of these ethical issues. Design-Self-completion questionnaire administered from February to July 1997. Setting-Different health regions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Participants-Random sample of 457 physicians (317...

There is a paucity of literature focusing on the ingredients for effective top management, i.e. senior executives, use of Information Technology (IT). In practice, many senior executives argue that they do not see a connection between what IT does and their tasks as executives. Based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), a research model was developed and tested to assess the factors that i...

In gearing up the task of e-Government, the governments of the various economies are investing heavily in Information Technology (IT). The success of e-Government program therefore depends upon the IT literacy and skills of the senior government executives, especially in the use of the Internet. This study focuses on one hundred senior government executives of the ten different ministries of Br...

Executive Overview Despite suggestions that business school professors do not understand what actually accounts for the performance of business organizations, the evidence is anecdotal at best. We review past work, develop expectations, and provide large-scale evidence for examining the validity of such suggestions. We accessed extensive data provided by Dun & Bradstreet and procured detailed i...

OBJECTIVE To explore whether health maintenance organization (HMO) executives in a mature market are familiar with hospital report cards, whether they find the report cards useful (and if not, why not), and how they weight such data relative to other factors. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional survey of HMO executives in 1999. PATIENTS AND METHODS We contacted all 47 licensed HMOs and the sponsor...

Competitive environments and sophisticated technologies are presenting IS executives with new opportunities and pressures, encouraging many to consider new IS management practices. This paper describes a study of fifty executives' new management practices and the reasons they were implemented. The findings suggest that IS executives are most concerned with delivering business value, but they be...

Information technology is becoming the largest production factor in many organizations. Yet most executives encounter insurmountable problems in governing information technology: IT is on top of them. New research shows that executives can reverse this situation, without having to master the intricacies of IT itself.