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This article explores the relationship between electronic commerce (EC) and the management of quality. The stand point it assumes for EC is that of a total entrepreneurial strategy spanning both intraand inter-organizational business and technology aspects. The article explores the relationship of EC and quality management (QM) from five distinct view points: quality for the end customer in vie...

Corresponding Author: Ann S. Williams, Ph.D., R.N., C.D.E., Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44106; email address [email protected] Health promotion and self-management for persons with disabilities have been severely underemphasized in health care research. As researchers seek to fill these gaps in knowledge, it is ...

in recent years, the C2C e-commerce websites have developed rapidly with intensive competition. For C2C E-commerce websites, the prerequisite for promoting enterprise’s competitiveness level and achieving competitive advantages is to assess and acquaint their competitiveness, which is also a significant problem to be solved at present. Based on the analysis of E-commerce website evaluation, the...

Since 21st century, developing E-commerce has overthrown the traditional tour operation. Tourism supply chain is an alliance established on confidence between each tour operator. And it also changes the traditional business mode. In this paper, the authors make the E-commerce as the breakthrough point, and analyze the traditional tourism supply chain mode, and then propose an evaluation index s...

Efforts to regionalize cardiac services can increase access costs for patients. This study quantifies this trade off by estimating the effects of changes in the regulation of hospital services on treatments and outcomes. A demand model for surgery services is specified in which heart attack victims form expectations of the need for and productivity of surgery in their choice of hospital and tre...

Firstly, a game model is established under unconstrained market conditions to illustrate the basic evolutionary rule of the market of e-commerce payment method. It is concluded that the establishment of e-commerce payment market is not normative under the unconstrained market conditions, which shows the importance of the introduction of the third party payment for the establishment of standardi...

Many studies and authors’ own studies suggest that e-learning system is the solution that will establish an educational framework for e-health implementation. Therefore, it is essential in order to achieve success, to assess and evaluate the attitude of the nursing community who are the end users towards the possibility of implementing the ‘E-learning system’ as a solution to educate the nursin...

In this article, the authors provide an analysis of the challenges facing researchers as they respond to the ideas that guide family-centered services and incorporate these themes into research focused on improving services for children with emotional, behavioral, or mental disorders and their families. The concept of "family-centered services" has emerged only recently as a generally well unde...