BACKGROUND Hospital governance is broadening its orientation from cost and production controls towards 'improving performance on clinical outcomes'. Given this new focus one might assume that doctors are drawn into hospital management across OECD countries. Hospital performance in terms of patient health, quality of care and efficiency outcomes is supposed to benefit from their involvement. How...

This article compares the income distribution’s equality in the economic growth of East Asia and Latin America, with the conclusion that the degree of social equality is not significant better in east Asia. And this article analyzes how the characteristics of social equality affects the economic development by the factors including industry policy, education, land reform, social security, urban...

Social responsibility in gambling is increasingly becoming both a policy issue for governments and industries, and a management issue for gambling operators. While many legalized commercial gambling operators adopt a purely economic orientation to their business, non-profit, charity gambling operators tend to focus on the social benefits of their activities. This paper argues that neither a pur...

In order to evaluate the enterprise social responsibility scientifically, this paper constructed an enterprise social responsibility evaluation indexes system composed by five first class indexes (environmental protection, resources utilization, economic benefit, human resources and social contribution and so on) and 18 second indexes. The two-step fuzzy evaluation method was adopted to evaluat...

With the resource exhaustion, bad affections of human activities and the awakening of the human rights, the corporate social responsibility became popular corporate strategy achieving sustainable development of both corporation and society. The issue of Guideline of Chinese Corporate Social Responsibility Report promotes greatly corporation to take social responsibility. This paper built the in...

Social Responsibility (SR) concerns the way in which organizations achieve their goals. This paper focuses on the overview of the SR as well as the endpoint of the continuous development of SR, the ISO 26000 standard and its core subjects. The aims are to give Information Technology (IT) professionals a better understanding of how to identify the core subjects of ISO 26000 relevant for their or...