This study examines the deliberations of professional MBA students when presented with a dilemma that weighs the difference between commitments to profit maximization against concerns for fired workers who would need to seek a new job during a recession. Using content analysis, we categorize accounting, economic and ethically-based rationales that differ from the profitmaximizing recommendation...

OBJECTIVE We aimed to identify the priorities for joint pain research from a large general population survey and identify characteristics associated with these priorities. METHODS A question about research priorities was developed in collaboration with the Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre's Research Users' Group. The question was embedded in a postal survey to an existing cohort of a...

The current study aims to explore the connections between business environments and firms' competitive priorities, which establish the basis for manufacturing strategy. This study explicitly considers the effects of asset and operating frontiers, as well as trade-offs across competitive priorities, a topic which has not been thoroughly studied by prior research. We collected data from 434 Chine...

I could also have called this text a discussion about championships –– prvenstva in Croatian –– but the current social priorities of such a more Croatian title would have immediately categorised it in the anthropology of sport. My idea was to write in a general way about the priorities of our profession, and not about sports contests. Priority is precedence, but also a right to that very priori...

NIDA supports high priority domestic and international research relevant to drug abuse (injection and noninjection) and HIV. This research focuses on vulnerable populations who tend to be underserved and not engaged by health care services. Use of illicit and licit drugs, often in the context of polysubstance abuse continues to be a major factor in driving HIV incidence and in adversely impacti...

This paper presents an algorithm for termination static analysis of active rules with priorities. Active rules termination is an undecidable problem. Several recent works have suggested proving termination by using the concept of triggering graph. We propose here a refinement of these works, exploiting the priorities defined between rules. We introduce the notions of path set and destabilizing ...

Research in the area of preventable hospitalization, hospital admissions that could otherwise be avoided, provides little guidance in terms of priority areas for change. This synthesis of multiple electronic databases searched systematically for studies related to preventable hospitalization identifies six priority areas for future action in three broad conceptual areas: person priorities (symp...

Citizens seeking better government services are often caught between competing government priorities. These priorities are often politically motivated, deceptive, and influence the degree to which different funding priorities are met. Government agencies seek to increase their budget without increasing performance, and often receive additional funding from legislatures seeking oversight of thes...