Title: Managers' perceptions of the manager role in relation to physicians: a qualitative interview study of the top managers in Swedish healthcare

who is a really successful manager? a manager who spends less money, or the one who earns more? a manager who can survive for a longer period of time, or an administrator who expands his organization, and opens up new branches? which one is the most successful? the article tries to answer these questions and provides, some simple guidlines for the managers in every domain of management who want...

In line with recent conceptual developments that take Knightian uncertainty seriously in the management literature, we investigate heuristics employed by top managers confronted an influx of uncertainty. Using instrument specifically designed to examine heuristic transition from prediction control response uncertainty, gather data 147 executive and obtain a counterintuitive result. Top persist ...

This paper presents the distributed virtual address management (VAS) used in the project Shadow. The management is derivated from language level concepts for distributed programming that hide the distributed nature of the execution environment as far as possible. The distributed resource management architecture is based on a decentralized autonomous manager agent architecture that is constructe...

the increasing emphasis on supply chain management (scm) has led researchers to rethink models, constructs, and frameworks for quality management (qm) that have been developed for the field of operations management. in this paper, within the framework of a structural model we investigate how these two supply chain management-related quality practices (customer focus and supplier quality managem...

This study aims to examine the mediating effects of top managers’ environmental commitment (EC) between three key variables (i.e., subjective norms, perceived benefits, and knowledge) adoption green practices in Malaysian hotels. also evaluates direct linkages among these variables. A total 147 hotel managers returned completed valid questionnaires. The participants consisted managers, such as ...

Purpose Top management commitment (TMC) and prosocial voice behaviour in Lean teams are vital for the successful implementation. This study aims to investigate how TMC influences team members’ such changed affects outcome of implementations. Design/methodology/approach The authors have used a qualitative research methodology examine six dimensions (communication, involvement, support, empowerme...

Demeter is a text-based prototype game that demonstrates the Marlinspike architecture for producing computer-based interactive dramas. Marlinspike uses a top-down, directed approach to generating stories: a central drama manager agent responds to story-significant user actions by selecting the next scene to play from a pre-authored collection. This drama manager strives to explicitly reincorpor...