Patients are crossing national borders in search of affordable and timely health care. Many medical tourism companies are now involved in organizing cross-border health services. Despite the rapid expansion of the medical tourism industry, few standards exist to ensure that these businesses organize high-quality, competent international health care. Addressing the regulatory vacuum, 10 standard...

Leadership has increasingly been advocated as a potent organizing practice, linked positively to several performance dimensions well successful organizational development and change. Despite these alleged promises, the specific characteristics of leadership processes they unfold in construction context have not fully captured by researchers. This paper is predicated on an identified lack method...

Abstract Various indicators are used to determine the level of company diversification. Their adequacy largely depends on structure production programme. Its essential feature is comparative weight main product in total scope company’s work. In this situation, intensity diversification process reflected by decrease volume due inclusion new products case, indicator can be comparing scale with ch...

The focus of knowledge management (KM) in the construction industry is moving towards capability building for value creation. The study reported by this paper is motivated by recent assertions about the genesis and evolution of knowledge management capability (KMC) in the strategic management field. It attempts to shed light on the governance of learning mechanisms that develop KMC within the c...

In an attempt to provide an on-line payment mechanism for large-dollar cross-border transactions, TradeCard Inc. developed the world's first and only "credit card" for international trade. This case study discusses the major issues surrounding the viability of such a B2B electronic payment architecture. How would TradeCard provide a seamless and secure on-line settlement transaction? Is its pla...

One of the biggest problems is that private contractors have not stepped up to the plate to become “Apprenticeship Trainers.” According to BAS information, only 475 companies employed construction trade apprentices in the Milwaukee area in the fall of 2005. These companies are listed alphabetically, with the number of apprentices employed by each broken down by racial/ethnic categories in the a...