OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to investigate the association between several medical interview behaviors and patient satisfaction. METHODS The subjects were 158 new patients who visited an outpatient facility of a university hospital in Japan. All medical interviews were videotaped and reviewed by a trained rater using a medical interview rating scale (Takemura Medical Interview R...

The analysis using the new Regime Legitimation Expert Survey (RLES) demonstrates that non‐democratic rulers in post‐Soviet countries use specific combinations of legitimating claims to stay in power. Most notably, rulers claim to be the guardians of citizens’ socio‐ economic well‐being. Second, despite recurrent infringements on political and civil rights, they maintain that their power i...

The continuing debate on the relevance and imposition of `Western theories' for explaining educational policy in the Third World is fascinating on a rhetorical level but lacking in the actual `testing' of such theories in a crossnational context. Responding to the general debate, and to a particular paper by Hans Weiler included in this issue of the Oxford Review of Education, on curriculum ref...

This study explores the process of legitimation of international new ventures from an emerging economy and the effect such ventures have on the process of creation and legitimation of a new industry in that economy. It is a longitudinal ethnographic case study. Following an inductive theory building approach, data were collected over an eleven year period via in-depth interviews, participant ob...

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In this study, the authors provide an assessment of the ecological theory of organizational form emergence and focus on the positive density effect associated with legitimation. The argument comes in two steps. First, organizational ecology seeks to understand cross-population similarities in search of general patterns in form emergence processes. Using summative meta-analysis, the authors show...