BACKGROUND Access to personal health information through the electronic health record (EHR) is an innovative means to enable people to be active participants in their own health care. Currently this is not an available option for consumers of health. The absence of a key technology, the EHR, is a significant obstacle to providing patient accessible electronic records. To assess the readiness fo...

– We study the effects of competitive preferences, where Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) compare their wage to the wage of other CEOs within the same industry, and derive utility from being ahead of them. We show that such social concerns work in the direction of CEO wages being positively correlated, in contrast to the Relative Performance Evaluation hypothesis, but consistent with several emp...

In this study we consider how and when interpersonal relations between chief executive officers (CEOs) and journalists can influence the content of journalists’ reporting about corporate leaders and their firms. Specifically, we draw from the social psychological literature on interpersonal influence and social exchange to suggest (i) how the disclosure of relatively low corporate earnings may ...

This study estimates chief executive officers’ (CEO) subjective valuation of their equity holdings using their revealed preferences conveyed by their decisions to hold or exercise their stock options and to hold or sell their equity shares. Using a random utility framework, I find that the subjective value of equity holdings is associated with both economic and behavioral factors, and that the ...

This paper uses a unique data set to investigate the link between the pay and performance of school principals. It is frequently argued that public sector CEOs are paid like bureaucrats with little reward for good performance. However, this ignores the possibility of implicit labor market incentives. We show that pay is indeed linked to publicly observable performance measures. Moreover poorly ...

Electronic commerce (e-commerce) has become a rapidly growing phenomenon to date. A peep into the exponential growth of main players in this industry reveals large reservoir market potential for ecommerce. Nevertheless, prevalence e-commerce adoption attracted attention from government, retailers, and academicians place specific focus on area. As such, study determined correlation between Chief...

Background Field experience, literature review and focus group findings indicated that a Buddy Network could help to overcome the unique barriers encountered by senior medical supply workers in Pacific Island Countries, including chief pharmacists, central medical store managers and country program managers. Specifically it could: encourage shared problem solving, reduce professional isolation,...

Management, professional, and related occupations.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56,050 323 3,052 12,587 13,278 13,205 10,164 3,441 44.1 Management, business, and financial operations occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23,171 64 963 4,431 5,471 6,058 4,588 1,596 45.9 Management occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

The purpose of the study is to extend further from the result studying overconfidence effects of CEOs on single deal of Malmendier and Tate (2008)’s article to study overconfidence effects of CEOs on multiple mergers and acquisitions. Based on the psychological and financial theories, the likelihood of overconfident CEOs acquiring a company is the net effect of two manifestations of overconfide...

PURPOSE This paper explores the role of the chief executive officer (CEO) in evidence-based design (EBD), discussing the internal and external challenges that a CEO faces, such as demands for increased quality, safety, patient-and-family-centeredness, increased revenue, and reduced cost. BACKGROUND Based on a series of interviews and case studies and the experience of the authors as researche...