elcome to Modern Healthcare’s seventh annual CEO IT Achievement Awards program, co-sponsored by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. In this special editorial section, you’ll meet the three recipients of the 2009 award: Michael Green, president and chief executive officer of Concord (N.H.) Hospital; Edward Murphy, president and CEO of the Carilion Clinic system, Roanoke, V...

CONTEXT The Institute of Medicine has recommended establishing mandatory error reporting systems for hospitals and other health settings. OBJECTIVE To examine the opinions and experiences of hospital leaders with state reporting systems. DESIGN AND SETTING Survey of chief executive and chief operating officers (CEOs/COOs) from randomly selected hospitals in 2 states with mandatory reporting...

Despite the many existing Eco-design methods and tools, their use is still limited. When they are used, these methods and tools are often not integrated in the product development process. The purpose of this research is, given a special focus on Eco-design methods and tools, to increase the knowledge concerning engineering designers’ use of methods and tools. Even though more and more approach...

We examine the effect of aggregate measures of CEO and consumer confidence on firm financing and investment. We find that capital expenditure, merger activity, and financing activity all increase with CEO and consumer confidence. However, while CEO confidence positively predicts future sales growth and return on assets, consumer confidence is negatively related to these performance measures as ...

The impact of the internet on inter-firm relationships has received little attention in the academic literature. This theory building research develops a conceptual framework about internet-facilitated relationships based on the literature and research findings from convergent interviews. The convergent interviews were conducted with CEOs and/or marketing managers of 10 Australian service compa...

Purpose – This study investigates the adequacy of existing intangible asset models and defines and codifies common principal valuation drivers of intangible assets for use in enterprise balanced scorecard valuation practices of information technology (IT) firms. Design/methodology/approach – Existing intangible asset balance scorecard valuation models and value chain models are evaluated to ext...

Research Summary In corporate acquisitions, overconfident chief executive officers (CEOs) often make biased decisions, subsequently paying unjustifiably high acquisition premiums. We investigate the predeal process in which premium is decided upon and, drawing from procedural rationality theory, argue that pursuit of greater through slow-paced processes reduces tendency CEOs to inflate The empi...

There has been a growing awareness of unethical practices being utilized by corporate CEOs, managers, and other members of upper management for gain of income or power. Advances in information technology have contributed significantly when making the public aware of wrong doings. Emerging from these real world cases are opportunities to prepare business communication students with transferable ...

Multinational firms pay relatively high wages. Less is known about the wage structure within multinational and non-multinational firms. We examine the impact of acquisitions on wage dispersion in Sweden using a large matched employer-employee data set. Foreign acquisitions of Swedish firms increase wage dispersion by increasing wages for high-skilled workers. The positive impact is concentrated...