Once stable industries that become dynamic industries raise numerous management and economic issues. Population ecology and contingency theories indicate that an incumbent economic organization must reform its organizational structure, production resource and processes, products, and markets if it is to survive (Harman and Freeman, 1977; Tosi, 1984). Survival can take many forms, including reor...

Passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 marks an important step toward making health care available to all Americans. However, implementation of the legislation over the next decade faces organizational, political, and economic challenges (1). One of the surest ways to maximize the chances for health care reform to achieve its aims is to reduce the burden of chronic di...

INTRODUCTION I. EQUILIBRIUM Economic institutions of developing countries—Rationality and Efficiency Inequality in developing countries Features of developing countries that impede development Role of the state 1. Information 2. Knowledge 3. Social and Organizational Capital Poverty Traps II. DYNAMICS OF CHANGE Development as Transformation Reform Evolutionary Change Internal sources of change ...

of Findings Health care providers in the San Francisco Bay Area weathered the economic downturn better than providers in most other areas of California, in large part because the downturn was less severe in the Bay Area. Still, a number of market trends and the expected effects of health reform have pressured providers, leading to significant organizational change in the provider sector since t...

The present report is submitted pursuant to Executive Board decision 94/32 of 10 October 1994. The report provides an overview of performance in 2001 against financial targets in the UNOPS business plan, reviews UNOPS activities during the year and addresses issues involving services and new client-centred business processes. Information is also provided on the current status of the organizatio...

in recent years, the main focus of health sector reforms in iran is the family physician and referral system plan. fundamental changes in the goals and strategies, has increased the necessity of the need to reform the organizational structure. this study tries to review and summarize all cases about the organizational structure of iran and its challenges in primary health care system.this study...

Recent health care reform is one of the biggest changes that the health care industry has ever faced. This reform represents paradigm changing opportunities and challenges for the company providing health insurance in a managed care environment. The CIO of a premier managed care health insurance provider (ABC Company) wants to take advantage of the new environment using Information Technology. ...