With recent Internet bubble burst, many venture capitalist firms are very reluctant to provide seed money for new ventures. And with growing academic budget problems many universities simply do not have revenue available to fund new projects. This paper presents several years of research to find effective ways to form partnerships between industry and academe to raise capital investments to man...

This case study describes an Asian Information Technology (IT) outsourcing partnership in the discrete manufacturing industry. Interviews with business and IT executives of both the Outsourcing Company and the IT Services Supplier provided the necessary insights. Nowadays many organizations in discrete manufacturing move their plants to Asian countries or other lower wages countries. Most IT se...

The focus of organizations’ internal communication and collaboration infrastructures has recently been extended from conventional intranets to enterprise social software platforms (ESSPs). However, as ESSPs rely on content creation and interaction through users, many platforms struggle. Previous research suggests that organizational climate plays an important role during IS adoption. Accordingl...

BACKGROUND Person-centred care (PCC) is increasingly advocated as a new way of delivering health care, but there is little evidence that it is widely practised. The University of Gothenburg Centre for Person-Centred Care (GPCC) was set up in 2010 to develop and implement person-centred care in clinical practice on the basis of three routines. These routines are based on eliciting the patient's ...

Regarding the fiscal constraints and management difficulties of public hospitals, several countries have used public private partnership model to improve their health facilities. Public private partnership enables using public resources and private investment and expertise in a combined structure. Moheb hospital is the first Iranian hospital managed according to public private-partnership. The ...

This paper empirically examines the relationship between business sustainability and firm competitiveness role of partnerships in competitiveness. By classifying two dimensions (environmental social sustainability) that are needed to realize sustainability, this study suggests a partnership serves as moderator relation Three developed hypotheses were tested using regression analysis find partne...

This paper characterizes the social-welfare maximizing equilibrium of a “stochastic partnership matching market”, in which players paired to play a stochastic game may quit to be costlessly and anonymously re-matched. Patterns of performance and turnover in this equilibrium are consistent with the well-known “survivorship bias” and, if partners form “meaningful first impressions”, with the “hon...