BACKGROUND Committing an error is part of the human nature. No health care provider, despite the mastery of their skills, is immune from committing it. Medical error in the labor and obstetrics wards as well as other health units is inevitable and reduces the quality of health care, leading to accident. Sometimes these events, like the death of mother, fetus, and newborn, would be beyond repair...

This paper investigates the effects of heterogeneous beliefs about future firm earnings and agency conflicts on corporate capital structure. We develop a dynamic structural model in which the manager of a firm has discretion in financing and effort and receives dynamic incentives through an explicit contract with shareholders in the presence of heterogeneous beliefs between the two parties. The...

Cultivation of an active cognitive lifestyle, including diverse and challenging educational, occupational and cognitively-loaded leisure activities may be protective against development of dementia but the mechanisms underlying this link are not clear. We used the Lifetime Experiences Questionnaire (LEQ) to assess the structural brain correlates of cognitive lifestyle in the Sydney Memory and A...

Stakeholder involvement and participation are widely recognized as being key success factors for IT risk assessment. A particular challenge facing current IT risk assessment methods is to provide accessible abstractions on matters of IT risk that attend to both managerial and technical perspectives of the stakeholders involved. In this paper, we investigate whether a conceptual modeling method ...

We study price dynamics for computer components sold on a price-comparison website. Our fine-grained data—a year of hourly price data for scores of rival retailers—allow us to estimate a dynamic model of competition, backing out structural estimates of managerial frictions. The estimated frictions are substantial, concentrated in the act of monitoring market conditions rather than entering a ne...

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...

nowadays, by the expansion of information technology in human life and dependence of business upon it, data protection, as one the most valuable and critical assets of the organization, has become the vital tool of modern industry and prerequisite for sustaining business process. in order to face the challenges and to take advantage of new opportunities brought forth by it advances we suggest o...

The paper’s research purpose is to discuss the key firm-specific IT capability and its impact on the business value of IT. In the context of IT application in China, the paper builds research model based on Resource-Based View, this model describes how the partnership between business and IT management partially mediates the effects of IT infrastructure capability and managerial IT skills on th...

BACKGROUND Integrated health care delivery is a goal of health care systems; to date there has been limited information on the integration of medical care in practice. PURPOSE To examine and compare perceptions of clinical integration and to identify associated strategic, cultural, technical and structural factors. DESIGN AND SETTING A NATIONAL SURVEY ADDRESSED TO: all county administrative...