BACKGROUND Priority setting and resource allocation in healthcare organizations often involves the balancing of competing interests and values in the context of hierarchical and politically complex settings with multiple interacting actor relationships. Despite this, few studies have examined the influence of actor and power dynamics on priority setting practices in healthcare organizations. Th...

Multimedia and real-time applications require end-toend QoS support based on the cooperative management of their distributed resources. This paper introduces a kernellevel facility, called Q(uality)-channel, which provides a flexible fabric with which Operating System developers can efficiently implement policies for managing the resources used by distributed applications. The inherent complexi...

Resource Allocation and Firm Scope We develop a theory of firm scope in which integrating two firms into one facilitates the allocation of resources, but leads to weaker incentives for effort, compared with nonintegration. Our theory makes minimal assumptions about the underlying agency problem. Moreover, the benefits and costs of integration originate from the same problem – to allocate resour...

** The planning process allows HSO managers to effectively deal with their varied external environments on a proactive basis. In terms of the management model, planning forces managers to focus on outputs, which then determines relative input needs into the HSO. The successful elucidation of HSO outputs and necessary inputs also allows managers to more effectively design and manipulate the conv...

The operational reality behind the rhetoric of integrated natural resource management poses significant challenges for resource managers, resource use planners and research scientists. A variety of frameworks for integrated resource planning and use have been espoused. These tend to reflect the bias of the discipline or stakeholder group fostering the approach and may therefore be unpalatable t...

Recent years have seen the progression of light detection and ranging (lidar) from the realm of research to operational use in natural resource management. Numerous government agencies, private industries, and public/private stakeholder consortiums are planning or have recently acquired large-scale acquisitions, and a national U.S. lidar acquisition is likely before 2020. Before it is feasible ...

We discuss the use of PVM as a system that supports General Process Management for DCEs. This system allows PVM to initialise MPI and other meta-computing systems. The impetus for such a system has come from the PVMPI project which required complex taskers and resource managers to be constructed. Such development is normally too time consuming for PVM users, due to the in-depth knowledge of PVM...

PROBLEM Strong leadership and management skills are crucial to finding solutions to the human resource crisis in health. Health professionals and human resource (HR) managers worldwide who are in charge of addressing HR challenges in health systems often lack formal education in leadership and management. APPROACH Management Sciences for Health (MSH) developed the Virtual Leadership Developme...

the purpose of this research was to study the factors affecting the development of electronically human resource management. the research method was survey. the statistical population included all of managers and employees in university of isfahan in 1393. the sample size was 260 people that chosen based on simple sample method. data collection instruments were two questionnaires: the factors a...

This paper empirically examines commercialization of university faculty inventions through startup firms from 1994 through 2008. Using data from the Association of University Technology Managers and the 2010 NRC doctoral rankings, our research reveals several findings. We find that university entrepreneurship is more common in bad economic times and that engineering department quality and biolo...