The issue of interest here is the employment of decision support agents in supply chain management. The study discusses the sorts of supply-related managerial tasks that decision support agents have been assigned, and how well or poorly they have performed these tasks. This research suggests the reasons why organizations might elect to invest supply chain management responsibilities in decision...

BACKGROUND Implementation Research (IR) in and around health systems comes with unique challenges for researchers including implementation, multi-layer governance, and ethical issues. Partnerships between researchers, implementers, policy makers and community members are central to IR and come with additional challenges. In this paper, we elaborate on the challenges faced by frontline field res...

This study identifies a frontline mechanism comprising autonomy, cohesion, and feedback that helps explain when and why the simultaneous pursuit of quality and productivity orientations has positive or negative effects on unit revenue, efficiency, and customer satisfaction. An empirical test of the proposed framework using data from 423 employees in 30 strategic business units and longitudinal ...

BACKGROUND Although organizations strive to develop transformational leaders, frontline nurse managers and directors are often inadequately prepared and lack transformational leadership (TL) behaviors. OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship of TL practices, nurse characteristics, and formal leadership training of frontline nurse leaders in a large health system. METHODS A survey of 512 front...

From as far back as our sources allow, hymns were part of Near Eastern temple ritual, with their performers an essential component of the temple functionaries. 1 These sources include Sumerian, Akkadian, and Egyptian texts from as early as the third millennium BCE. From the second millennium BCE, we gain further examples of hymns from the Hittite realm, even if most (if not all) of the poems ar...

The issue of interest here is the behaviour of decision agents in supply chain management. The study uses a managerial framework to organize supply-related tasks to the behaviour of specific instantiations of decision agents. The reasons why organizations might elect to invest supply chain management responsibilities in decision agents rather than human functionaries are illustrated. Finally, t...