During the past 10 years, financial pressures on health service providers have led to a quest for more efficient service delivery and many consequential changes to the organisation and utilisation of staff. This study investigated the organisational responses to such pressures by four major South Australian hospitals and the level of involvement of hospital human resource staff in the staffing ...

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The present paper examines the effectiveness of financial overcompensation as a means to enhance customer loyalty after a product failure. Overcompensation implies that customers are entitled to a refund that is larger than the purchase price. It is, however, still unclear whether large overcompensations entail saturation effects, or alternatively, result in an actual drop in customer loyalty. ...

Background: The general population’s understanding of musculoskeletal health is likely influenced by media reports of the ailments of prominent athletes. We assessed factors independently associated with debatable or potentially misleading medical statements in mainstream sports media coverage of the ailments of professional and college athletes.Methods: We identified and assessed 200 Int...

Mathematicians reason about abstract objects, or at least they seem to do so. In the course of doing so, they routinely make statements on mathematical statements. In fact, every inference, such as “From equations (5.17) and (6.2) one obtains the following equation.”, is a statement on mathematical statements. Other examples of statements on mathematical statements are: “With the obvious modifi...

Antitrust policy has evolved substantially in the last two decades. Although the incorporation of new empirical methods has played a critical role in this evolutionary process, with only a few exceptions experimental tools have not been employed. This omission is unfortunate, because appropriately constructed experiments can uniquely provide important insights. This paper summarizes some of our...

Most research on the political consequences of international migration conceptualizes financial remittances as being a substitute for state-provided assistance. This paper tests the actual validity of this assumption. Using data from the 2012-2016 Americas Barometer, the analysis confirms previous findings on the negative impact of financial remittances on electoral turnout intentions. However ...

The measurement perspective on decision usefulness implies greater usage of fair values in the financial statements proper. Following from our discussion in Section 2.5.1, greater use of fair values suggests a balance sheet approach to financial reporting, as opposed to the income statement approach which underlies the research described in Chapter 5. This, in turn, implies a larger role for th...