Over the years, Malaysian manufacturers struggled to mitigate widened gap among three aspects of TBL performance, e.g., economic, social, and environmental. Although, economic performance is relatively elevated compared environmental based on index (EPI) data reports. Similarly, less than twenty per cent (20%) are ISO14001-certified out total registered firms in 52nd FMM directory. The must emp...

In the light of rapid development of technology/knowledge intensive firms arising from the emerging economy of China in recent time, this paper is aimed at developing an analytical framework, based on the institutional theory and resource-based view, to evaluate the drivers and antecedents of technology innovation among Chinese emerging multinational enterprises (MNEs). Use of case study approa...

BACKGROUND Competence in emergency airway management is key in order to improve patient safety and outcome. The scope of compulsory training for emergency physicians or paramedics is quite limited, especially in Austria. The purpose of this study was to review the difficult airway management performance of an emergency medical service (EMS) in a region that has implemented a more thorough train...

Objective Pre-hospital patient management with resuscitative procedures is a standard of care in mature EMS systems. Currently, no centralized EMS system exists for the population in Eastern India. This leads to patients presenting to under-resourced facilities highlighting the need for sophisticated ambulance services for inter-facility transfers. This study identifies the need of a centralize...

F or years, EMS managers have focused on " hard management " issues, such as improving response performance, controlling costs and increasing reimbursement rates. When it comes to the people in their organization , however, many managers still believe a job and a paycheck are incentive enough to want to stay on the job and work hard. But tides are changing. The pool of workers has shrunk, oppor...

Keywords computer industry design for environment (DfE) economic theory environmental management systems (EMS) greening the supply chain semiconductor industry Summary Our article uses a new institutional economics (NIE) framework to explore the role of voluntary industry standards in the development and implementation of environmental supplier-management programs in the computer industry. We e...