Purpose The purpose of this qualitative study is to compare the perceptions employed people in Mexico and Colombia about managerial leadership behavioural effectiveness. Design/methodology/approach A multiple cross-case cross-nation comparative analysis findings obtained from two past emic replication (Mexico Colombia) studies was conducted. Findings suggests that within Mexican Colombian organ...

BACKGROUND An increasing number of hospitals react to recent demographic, epidemiological and managerial challenges moving from a traditional organizational model to a Patient-Centered (PC) hospital model. Although the theoretical managerial literature on the PC hospital model is vast, quantitative evaluations of the performance of hospitals that moved from the traditional to the PC organizatio...

BACKGROUND Community dissemination of empirically-supported behavior therapies is fostered by collaborative design, a joint process pooling expertise of purveyors and treatment personnel to contextualize a therapy for sustainable use. The adaptability of contingency management renders it an exemplary therapy to model this collaborative design process. METHODS At conclusion of an implementatio...

The discipline of information security management is still in its infancy as evidenced by the lack of empirical scholarly work in this area. Most research within the information security domain focuses on specific technologies and algorithms and how it impacts the principles of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. But, an important area receiving little attention is the antecedents of ...

Despite the widespread acceptance of strategy's role in mediating an organization's interaction with its environment (Andrews, 1971; Ansoff, 1965; Chandler, 1962; Child, 1972; Miles & Snow, 1978), the scope of research on strategy "implementation" has remained quite narrow. Following Chandler (1962), the concern has been predominantly with how a firm's organizational structure and control syste...

Does the type of knowledge, and levels of ability and experience needed, depend on rank in managerial accounting? Are the knowledge, ability, and experience needed for managerial accounting success, consistent with the Libby & Luft (L&L) model (1993) of the determinants of judgment performance in accounting? We explore these questions using structural equation models of the performance evaluati...