The need and demand for the highest-quality management of all health care delivery activities requires a participative management approach. The purpose with this article is to explore the process of participative management, to generate and describe a model for such management, focusing mainly on the process of participative management, and to formulate guidelines for operationalization of the ...

Although user participation has been studied over four decades, the effectiveness users’ participative activities has not been well assessed. This research proposes knowledge participation as an assessment of the effectiveness of participative activities performed by users. By capturing the effectiveness of users’ participative activities, the construct of knowledge participation is argued to h...

This study investigated the relationship between main dimensions in the strategy-making process, environmental complexity, and performance in pharmaceutical companies of Iran. Results argue that pharmaceutical companies like other industries place differing emphasis on strategy-making and employ different modes of strategy-making. It offers a typology of different modes of strategy-making that ...

This study investigated the relationship between main dimensions in the strategy-making process, environmental complexity, and performance in pharmaceutical companies of Iran. Results argue that pharmaceutical companies like other industries place differing emphasis on strategy-making and employ different modes of strategy-making. It offers a typology of different modes of strategy-making that ...

This paper complements the ongoing empirical discussion surrounding participative budgeting by comparing its economic merits relative to a top-down budgeting alternative. We analyze a screening model of participative budgeting where the subordinate uses the budgeting mechanism to relay private information to his superior, in addition to a signaling model of top-down budgeting where the superior...

La recherche participative tient compte de la nature multiréférentielle réalité en favorisant des enquêtes terrain, au service pratique et qui combinent diverses expertises dont celles personnes directement concernées. Même si les niveaux d’implication varient, co-construction savoirs est un élément central du processus recherche.