A lack of respect between nursing and medical disciplines can lead to a lack of trust and disruptive behaviors that are a significant part of the culture of health care today. In order to ensure the best care for all patients, a systematic approach to defining desired and undesired behaviors is a place to begin. A systems view requires an appreciation of local culture and operations. Understand...

Recently, the American Heart Association (AHA) adopted a new and ambitious strategic goal: “by 2020, to improve the cardiovascular health of all Americans by 20% while reducing deaths from cardiovascular disease by 20%.”1 In the process, it defined a new concept, cardiovascular health, which comprises 7 components: 4 ideal health behaviors (nonsmoking, body mass index 25 kg/m, physical activity...

This brief article demonstrates that there are common psychological principles that can be effectively and directly applied to illustrate the utility of terrorist activities. One key contention is that terrorism should be considered the pinnacle of strategic behaviors within any protracted campaign emphasizing psychological warfare. A variety of mechanisms and concepts are utilized to make this...

This article contributes to the social networks literature by examining how corporate governance factors influence CEOs’ external advice-seeking behaviors. We incorporate insights from social networks research into an agency theory perspective to predict, and demonstrate empirically, that governance factors recommended by agency theory increase CEOs’ tendencies to seek out advice contacts who a...

Strategic planning, product design and marketing decisions often require a thorough understandinq of consumers' preferences and choice behaviors. This paper describes the use of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for eliciting preferences by questionnaire. Using AHP, consumers can comfortably provide quantitative measures of numerous, diverse and intangible influences on their choices. The pr...

although the research on organizational citizenship behaviors (ocbs) has increased dramatically in diverse fields during the past decade, little is known about the ocbs in the information systems area. the purpose of this study was to explore the effect of ocbs on information systems success. in order to perform empirical analyses, measurements on the ocbs constructs based on the five dimension...

Empirical evidence suggests that scanning for information becomes an increasingly salient activity for top executives as enviromental turbulence increases. A critical part of scanning for top executives in such environments is scanning to identify strategic threats and opportunities. This is the focus of this papen We seek to understand the strategic scanning behaviors of top executives in orde...

Although there has been increasing interest in the role of affect in work settings, the impact of moods and emotions in strategic decision making remains largely unexplored. In this essay, we address this shortcoming by proposing a conceptual model of strategic decision making that incorporates, at its core, the impact of affective states on cognitive processes that are integral to the decision...