The rapid growth and evolution of the pharmacy profession has created a wide array of opportunities for graduating pharmacists beyond traditional community pharmacy or hospital practice. Management and leadership positions in federal and state healthcare agencies, pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, retail pharmacies, academia and managed care organizations increasingly require the pharmaceuti...

Researchers and practitioners are increasingly interested in entrepreneurship as a means to fight youth unemployment and to improve financial stability at higher ages. However, only few studies so far have examined the association between age and entrepreneurial activity. Based on theories from the lifespan psychology literature and entrepreneurship, we develop and test a model in which perceiv...

Eastern Health, a large public Victorian Healthcare network, conducted a WIES optimisation audit across the casemix-funded sites for separations in the 2009/2010 financial year. The audit was conducted using existing staff resources and resulted in a significant increase in casemix funding at a minimal cost. The audit showcased the skill set of existing staff and resulted in enormous benefits t...

Many households display inertia in investment management over their life cycles. Our calibrated dynamic life cycle portfolio choice model can account for such an apparently 'irrational' outcome, by incorporating the fact that investors must forgo acquiring job-specific skills when they spend time managing their money, and their efficiency in financial decision making varies with age. Resulting ...

1. Introduction The benefits to developing economies of their comparatively recent integration to international capital markets are clearly substantial: access to international savings allowing the rate of investment (and thus industrial progress and income growth) to be raised; the ability to dampen exogenous shocks by borrowing abroad; and efficiency gains from the transfers of competitive te...

Designing and valuating derivative contracts belongs to a financial engineer’s daily tasks. Their almost unlimited flexibility has already created the need for computer-aided techniques – typically spreadsheet-based software solutions. Lacking in-depth software development expertise promotes inflexible prototypes individually developed for each new contract to be designed and valuated. Scalabil...

The focus of the panel is on new information technology support systems for monitoring and controlling operations. Increased competition and the need for faster and better information for decisions mark today's business environment. In addition, systems are complex and many times online. A large amount of information, e.g. receipts and accounting records, is increasingly displayed only in elect...

The strategic role of the entrepreneur as an agent of economic transformation in society is visible in employment and wealth generation, stimulation of indigenous entrepreneurship or promotion of entrepreneurial culture. The Nigerian government has accordingly created the enabling environment to nurture entrepreneurial development, through the establishment of various agencies to provide financ...

Organisations today are characterised by conglomerate organisation structures that evolve through mergers and acquisitions. Corporate offices need to add superior knowledge and skills to ensure that the collection of diverse businesses is operating as more than independent units. A new management approach is required to create synergies between the diverse businesses, their processes and system...

This paper attempts to draw a synthetic picture of corporate governance in transition with emphasis on the efficiency implications of corporate governance, taking into account a) the heterogeneity of managerial skills, b) the diversity of restructuring tasks and financial situations of firms and c) political constraints. The focus is on the efficiency effects generated by the different kinds of...