BACKGROUND The Norwegian hospital reform of 2002 was an attempt to make restructuring of hospitals easier by removing politicians from the decision-making processes. To facilitate changes seen as necessary but politically difficult, the central state took over ownership of the hospitals and stripped the county politicians of what had been their main responsibility for decades. This meant that d...

during the last recent decades, restructuring in the electricity industry has been considered as an economical policy. consequently, it was able to increase private investment, competition, efficiency, and productivity. the purpose of restructuring electricity industry is to change electricity industry organization, in order to omit monopoly and increase competition. recognition of restructurin...

this descriptive cross sectional census study identified the perceptions of extension and outreach employees of iowa state university in the united states about job autonomy and control after two years of a major restructuring. employees perceived autonomy and control over expressing views and ideas about their work and spending time on the job but perceived little influence over budget allocat...

Restructuring  is relevant for companies that have free capital and need to expand for development purposes, as well as for companies that have relatively large problems with financial results and the relevant indicators indicate the necessary changes. Motives of the restructuring may be different, the authors put forward the following reasons: operation operational synergy, financial synergy, ...

the cyclical economic downturn in the united states has forced many extension administrators to rethink and adjust services and programming. the cooperative extension system (ces), the organization primarily responsible for governmental extension work in the united states, at iowa state university responded to this economic downturn by restructuring its organization from county based to a regio...

Recent seminal developments in organization economics, namely the decision rights approach, offer an opportunity to shed new light on an old question, the design of effective institutions. Drawing on conclusions about how and why firm organizational boundaries change, the decision rights approach is used in this article as an analytical lens to develop a new method for assessing institutional a...

Interoceptive exposure (IE) is an effective procedure for reducing anxiety sensitivity (AS) and the symptoms of panic disorder. However, considerable variance exists in how IE is delivered among clinicians, and the extent to which IE is enhanced by the concurrent use of cognitive restructuring (CR) and diaphragmatic breathing (DB) is unclear. Participants (N = 58) with high AS were randomly ass...

in studying of the in situ gravitational concentration process part feature for placer, the technological ability to transform the in situ massif placer structure is evident. the two main processes involved in altering the massif in situ have been examined and outlined in detail. the in situ disintegration of massif material results in a new massif gravitational stratification structure. regula...

My thesis examines the operating performance and financial statement disclosures of firms that restructure their business strategy, structure or operations and, as a result, record restructuring charges in their financial statements. Chapter One examines three questions related to corporate restructuring and firm performance. First, do firms that take restructuring charges experience improvemen...

this study investigates the efficacy of assertive training, that is a kind of multi component behavioral procedures, and it's combination with cognitive restructuring (systematic rational restructuring) on the socially anxious girls of 12-14 yrs. for this study 21 socially anxious subjects were matched by age, sex, education and economic background. first, they were evaluated by a number o...