In the newer, more complex realities that face organizations, governing boards are called upon to provide both oversight and innovative strategy. Parallels between the innovative boards that use John Carver’s Policy Governance and Boeing’s innovative top-tier airplane designers are described. They both employ visionary prototypes (Ends policies for Policy Governance boards and design Ends for B...

OBJECTIVE To describe the views of the chairs of Scottish health boards on the engagement of their boards with healthcare quality and to compare them with the views of the chairs of boards of English acute trusts. The focus of the Scottish Health Boards is on providing and commissioning care, while in England the acute trusts only provide care. METHODS We mailed a questionnaire, based on one ...

State medical boards are increasingly responsible for regulating medical and osteopathic licensure and professional conduct in the United States. Yet, there is great variation in the extent to which such boards take disciplinary action against physicians, indicating that some boards are more zealous regulators than others. We look to the political roots of such variation and seek to answer a si...

When minority shareholder laws are strong, then minority shareholders should have more power to affect board composition and structure. Therefore, countries with strong minority shareholder laws should have ‘good’ corporate boards of directors (i.e., one that looks out for minority shareholders’ bests interests). Assuming that boards with independent directors and fewer directors are indicative...

This paper describes a simulation-based analysis of a printed circuit board (PCB) testing process. The PCBs are used in a defense application and the testing process is fairly complex. Boards are mounted on a test unit in batches and go through three thermal test cycles. As boards fail testing during the thermal cycling, operators can either replace the failed boards at fixed points during the ...

Purpose – The proliferation and advance of web-based technologies create expanded opportunities for retailers to gain a better understanding of their customers. However, the success of these web-based discussion boards depends solely on whether customers are willing to share their knowledge and experience with other customers in these discussion boards. Thus, this study aims at identifying the ...

Information Systems executive advisory boards have become an increasingly important way for faculty to draw upon the expertise and resources of industry members. This benefits students and faculty and ensures the relevance of information systems programs. This paper describes a study of faculty member’s perspectives regarding the goals and achievements of their advisory boards. 194 faculty memb...

There is now a heightened interest on the part of many Canadian healthcare boards in improving processes for assuring quality and safety. This interest has been driven by a number of reports and studies which have identified significant quality and safety issues and the need for greater attention to these by those who lead, including governing boards. Despite progress by some boards, there are ...

Abstract This study evaluated the translation quality of English equivalents of Persian proper nouns in the tourist signs and bilingual boards in Isfahan. To find different errors in the translations of the bilingual boards and tourist signs, the data were collected directly by taking picture or writing exactly from the available tourist signs and bilingual boards. Then, the errors were assesse...