The continuous growth of hospital costs has driven governments in many countries, as well as in Greece, to encourage hospitals to increase their efficiency. In response to this need the knowledge and the continuous evaluation of the National Health System (NHS) hospitals’ efficiency level is certainly a precondition for planning, implementing and monitoring any promising reform. In this paper, ...

Risk management in Chinese banks has traditionally been the Cinderella of its internal functions. Political stricture and developmental imperative have often overridden standard practice of risk management resulting in large non-performing loan (NPL) ratios. The training and practice of risk managers remain second class compared with foreign banks operating in China. This paper surveys Chinese ...

In the managerial myopia literature the firm always faces some agency problem or other market imperfection. It is unclear whether the myopic behavior found in these models is due to stock-based incentives or the model's other market imperfections. This paper points out that stock incentives do not lead to myopia unless they result in more emphasis on the short-term than would occur under an opt...

In an environment where managers’ability to generate pro…ts changes stochastically over time, we characterize the optimal turnover policy for a …rm hiring a succession of managers. The focus is on the interaction between the compensation scheme used to incentivize the managers’e¤ort and the retention policy used to screen the managers’types and induce the desired turnover. Our key positive resu...

Drawing on two in-depth case studies, this paper develops a conceptual model of how absorptive capacity routines and their underlying processes of evolution influence the efficiency of management innovation adaptation processes. The model highlights three important relations. First, although different configurations of absorptive capacity routines can lead to the successful implementation of th...

background: due to the increasing health care costs, the issue of productivity in hospitals must be taken into great consideration in order to provide, preserve and promote public health services. thus, increasing the level of productivity must become the main aim of any hospital. objective of this study is to determine the total factor productivity and its components over the period under the ...

BACKGROUND There is increasing evidence that good district management practices can improve health system performance and conversely, that poor and inefficient management practices have detrimental effects. The aim of the present study was to identify factors contributing to inefficient management practices of district health managers and ways to improve their overall efficiency. METHODS Nine...

Electronic Management Systems (EMS) today play an important role in organizations as they simplify managerial tasks, improve resource utilization and improve efficiency. King Abdul-Aziz University is a leader in the use of technology among Saudi universities. Its focus, like several other universities, has been on building centralized EMSs which tie different departments across campus using a c...

We examine the role of managerial talent and its interaction with practices in determining firm performance. build a matched firm-director panel dataset for universe limited liability companies Italy, tracking individuals across different firms over time. define as management's capacity to boost firms' total factor productivity, estimated using two-way fixed effects model. Combining data survey...

This research aims to advance our understanding of the relationship between exploitative learning and new product development (NPD) efficiency by investigating four novel contextual variables. Based on a survey of 193 NPD projects in information technology firms located in Taiwan, we used hierarchical moderated regression analysis to test our research hypotheses. The results reveal that the rel...