As important actors in global value chains (GVCs), multinational enterprises exercise coordination and control over worldwide commodity, production, service, workforce knowledge mobility. A level playing field for all GVC stakeholders remains absent. We argue empowering subordinated the design of inclusive governance, as a necessary condition, to harness power GVCs that enable many firms intern...

iran universities of medical sciences have experienced a period of expansion in past decades. now previous concerns are alleviated, and the former quantity-based policy has given a way to a more quality-seeking attitude. in this study, we developed a planning model for expansion and stagnation of higher education in iranian universities of medical sciences based on workforce requirements of the...

background: the aim of the study was a recommendation and establishment the concept of the appropriate communication between public health, other competent services and population in emergency as the corner stone which guarantee that all goals which are important for community life will be achieved. methods: we used methodology appropriate for social science: analyses of documents, historical a...

Drawing on an in-depth analysis of eight global health networks, a recent essay in this journal argued that global health networks face four challenges to their effectiveness: problem definition, positioning, coalition-building, and governance. While sharing the argument of the essay concerned, in this commentary, we argue that these analytical concepts can be used to explicate a concept that h...

background: this study investigates whether state-owned enterprises (soes) in indonesia implement stronger corporate governance than do non-soes. it can be argued that as a large dedicated institutional investor, the indonesian government has an incentive to strengthen corporate governance in soes and possesses the ability to bear the cost of implementing stronger governance. research methods: ...

Workforce agility has been considered as an important factor responding to the uncertain environment. However, current research on how to develop workforce agility remains unclear, so identifying the influencing factors for achieving workforce agility is needed. Based on the information processing view, we propose a model to examine how task conflict and relationship conflict affect workforce a...

richard saltman and antonio duran take up the challenging issue of governance in their article “governance, government and the search for new provider models,” and use two case studies of health policy changes in sweden and spain to shed light on the subject. in this commentary, i seek to link their conceptualization of governance, especially its interrelated roles at the macro, meso, and micro...