We review 1980s research on American rural hospitals within the context of a decade of increasing restrictiveness in the reimbursement and operating environments. Areas addressed include rural hospital definitions, organizational and financial performance, and strategic management activities. The latter category consists of hospital closure, diversification and vertical integration, swing-bed c...

Earlier work has found that social capital reduces traffic fatality risk (Nagler 2013a, Nagler 2013b). Recognizing that rural areas suffer from high traffic fatality levels despite a perceived high density of communal ties, we explore here whether social capital provides the same protection against traffic risks on rural roads as on urban roads, and what factors might explain differential effec...

This paper emphasizes on the role of entrepreneurship in economic development of a society with the perspective of Blue Ocean strategy used by organizations across the globe and especially in the context of Indian rural markets. The paper also utilizes live examples of organizations going towards uncontested rural markets and is suggestive of the crux and the core definition of entrepreneurship...

This article sets a context for researchers, practitioners and policymakers for prevention and treatment of substance use among rural, low-income families. To increase understanding of the specific needs of families in rural communities, the authors use an emerging theoretical framework which combines the ecological model with a risk and resilience theoretical framework. Results of an explorato...

The Software-Defined Networking (SDN) paradigm is typically applied to data center and enterprise networks. We argue that SDN is also promising for rural wireless networks, especially those in developing regions. Operating a rural network in the developing world means coping with unpredictability, low profit margins, and resource constraints; the increased flexibility and simplified management ...

E-commerce has been developing rapidly in rural areas, and has a big influence on people’s life especially in villages and towns in recent years. The popularization of Taobao Villages is the best example.In this paper, we conduct a literature review on rural e-commerce (REC) in China from three aspects: the research status, research contents, and research tendency firstly. We then taking farmer...

Introduction and use of Information and Communication Technologies in rural sub-Saharan Africa face a particular array of challenges. Often, challenges interrelate with context, tradition and culture. This poster presentation identifies constraints during sensitisation, introduction and operations of ICT in rural Zambia. Although quantitative engineering aspects play a role, a multitude of qual...

In the United Kingdom (UK) there is currently an upsurge of interest in rural affairs. This brings the potential to address some of the gaps in rural health care research. The appropriate description and measurement of rural deprivation is one area consistently identified by UK rural practitioners and policymakers as urgently requiring evidence. Appropriate identification and measurement of dep...

The rural markets in India have grown size, range and sophistication in recent times. Under the changing Socioeconomic scenario, the rural markets have great potentialities in India and offer bright prospects and attraction to the companies. Rural marketing is confused with agricultural marketing particular emphasis is placed on the impact of the four A’s principles on the rural economy and its...