Growing private and public concern with the environment is pushing businesses to increase their awareness and action. Using the Nordic bank Nordea as a case study and a Green IS organizational response model developed on the basis of extant literature, we investigate how Green IS initiatives become part of a firm’s overall strategy and part of the organizational sustainability process. We find ...

OBJECTIVES To examine what factors influence the agenda-setting process and level of political priority afforded to micronutrient deficiencies (MNDs). DESIGN Qualitative case study employing process tracing, informed by primary data collected from semistructured interviews with policymakers. SETTING Dakar, Senegal. RESULTS Several facilitating and impeding factors affecting the level of p...

BACKGROUND In Canada, many diverse models of integrative oncology care have emerged in response to the growing number of cancer patients who combine complementary therapies with their conventional medical treatments. The increasing interest in integrative oncology emphasizes the need to engage stakeholders and to work toward consensus on research priorities and a collaborative research agenda. ...

Diagnostic errors are a major patient safety concern. Although the majority of diagnostic errors are partially attributable to cognitive mistakes, the most effective means of improving clinician cognition in order to achieve gains in diagnostic reliability are unclear. We propose a tripartite educational agenda for improving diagnostic performance among students, residents and practising physic...

www.thelancet.com/lancetgh Vol 2 February 2014 e74 derived from the checklist on health research priority setting. A three-stage consultation process was developed to enable the inclusion of a broad range of different stakeholders. In stage one, four workshops of 1 day each were held. Each focused on a diff erent research domain: reproductive, maternal, and child health; communicable diseases; ...

This paper examines the labour process of Healthcare Assistants (HCAs) at a National Health Service (NHS) hospital trust (TUH) in the context of the NHS modernisation agenda. It determines whether application of the modernisation agenda is formalised at TUH and considers how HCAs are affected. The paper is based upon 60 interviews with HCAs, structured questionnaires completed by all interview ...

This report describes the results of NCGIA Research Initiative 9 on Institutions Sharing Geographic Information. It begins with a discussion of objectives and the process of developing a research agenda. The initiative was active during the period June 1992 through the summer of 1994, although the final wrap-up meeting was not held until July 1995. Since that time, offshoot research activities ...

BACKGROUND Prompted by the need to achieve progress in health outcomes, payment for performance (P4P) schemes are becoming popular policy options in the health systems in many low income countries. This paper describes the policy process behind the introduction of a payment for performance scheme in the health sector of Tanzania illuminating in particular the interests of and roles played by th...