This paper brings together resource-based theory and contingency theory to analyse organizational capability in the public sector. Fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis is used to identify configurations of organizational attributes (department size, structural complexity, agencification, personnel instability, use of temporary employees), associated with high and low organizational capabi...

This study assessed knowledge of health inequities, importance and benefits/barriers of addressing inequities, and ways of communicating information about inequities among municipal officials. Five focus groups (N=47) were conducted with officials from economic development, land use and housing, public safety, education, and environment departments. Discussions were recorded, transcribed and an...

This paper brings together resource-based theory and contingency theory to analyse organizational capability in the public sector. Fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis is used to identify configurations of organizational attributes (department size, structural complexity, agencification, personnel instability, use of temporary employees), associated with high and low organizational capabi...

Five agencies providing home health care to indigent populations in New Orleans, Louisiana were evaluated in terms of emergency planning and implementation. This was to help improve response to community disasters for indigent populations. Preparation for Hurricane Katrina was examined looking at interaction with local and state departments of health. It was found that the state dept of health ...

Method. A national survey was conducted of organizations delivering interventions to arsonists and young fire setters. This survey included fire and rescue services, probation areas, youth offending services, forensic mental health units, several government departments, and the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders. The survey was followed by site visits to eight organ...

Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul; Departments of Radiology, Cardiothoracic Surgery, and Internal Medicine, Seoul Metropolitan Government Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, Korea Successful desensitization of pemetrexed-induced anaphylaxis in a patient with malignant mesothelioma Jeonghwan Youk, Hyunkyung Park, Kwang Nam Jin, Hyun J...

Representatives of government health departments and patients’ organisations from all European countries met with diabetes experts under the aegis of WHO Regional Offices for Europe and the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), European region, in St Vincent, Italy on 10–12 October 1989. Within this declaration of the five-year targets was to reduce by one half the rates of limb amputations ...

The certification resource is a very special class of information resources of the government, which has huge amount of information and frequency usages of government administrative activities. With the various administrative departments’ in-depth online approval, there is an urgent demand for certificates information sharing needs, especially in interdepartmental tasks. In this paper, governme...