the purpose of this paper is to study how the characteristics of successful managers are somehow related to their programme in co-operatives. the study shows there is a significant relationship between managers' characteristics such as innovation, authority and leadership, with managerial skills, self confidence and degree of success. however, there is no correlation between intelligence, ...

To know the decision strategy and the underlying information acquisition behavior of a person is essential for the design of computer programs that support managerial and consumer decision making. Both quantitative methods (e.g. computer-assisted process-tracing systems) and qualitative methods (e.g. verbal protocols) are used to investigate information acquisition behavior of managers and cons...

Both prior literature and reported managerial practices have claimed that the Balanced Scorecard is a management tool that can help organizations to effectively implement strategies. In this article, we examine some of the contributions, dilemmas, and limitations of Balanced Scorecards in health care organizations. First, we describe the evolution of Balanced Scorecards from multidimensional pe...

This paper shows how firms’ pricing and communications strategies may be affected by size of the Internet: firms have incentives to facilitate consumer search on the Internet, but only as long as the Internet's reach is limited. As the Internet is used by more consumers, firms’ pricing and communications strategies on the Internet will mirror the strategies they pursue in a conventional channel...

Purpose Block chain technology (BCT) has apparent capability of handling information in digital format, which dragged attention the practitioners for its utility industrial and manufacturing practices. Conversely, managerial adoption BCT is relatively limited, motivated authors to identify crucial dimensions that can persuade acceptance from an executive perspective. Thus, present study aimed c...

The nonlinear relationship between corporate value (Tobin's Q) and managerial ownership is well documented. This has commonly been attributed to the onset of managerial entrenchment, which results in a decrease of corporate value for increasing levels of managerial holdings. We propose a more complex structure for the corporate value { managerial ownership function, which accounts for the e®ect...

background iran has a widespread diagnostics and clinical support services (dcss) network that plays a crucial role in providing diagnostic and clinical support services to both inpatient and outpatient care. however, very little is known on the application of quality assurance (qa) policies in dcss units. this study explores the extent of application of eleven qa strategies in dcss units withi...

a r t i c l e i n f o In this paper, we introduce empirical evidence showing how mental simulation was used as a heuristic strategy in an industrial network context. The mental network simulations observed are consistent with the Recognition-Primed Decision (RPD) model, according to which intuitive thinking allows managerial experience to be translated into focal network action, without resorti...