The deaths, serious health complications and long-term disabilities that result from unsafe abortion procedures place an enormous burden on Pakistan’s health care system, as well as on the women themselves, their families and their communities. A national survey of publicsector facilities estimated that about 200,000 women were hospitalized for abortion complications in 2002.1 Many other women ...

We welcome the opportunity to respond to Harrison’s Letter to the Editor regarding our GHSP article “Women's Limited Choice and Availability of Modern Contraception at Retail Outlets and PublicSector Facilities in Luanda, Angola, 2012–2015.” There is little recent market data available for Angola, and this article was an effort to share what we had learned about product availability in retail o...

The Linux operating system offers information technology managers in both the private and public sectors an increasingly attractive option as a computing platform to run the powerful computer servers that are at the heart of computer networks, including the Internet itself. Platform software adoption decisions typically have lasting implications for subsequent adoption of application software a...

This article reviews the mainstream leadership literature and its perennial debates and compares it to the public-sector (administrative) leadership literature. The mainstream leadership literature fully articulated the transformational models in the 1980s and began the serious work of integrating transactional and transformational types of leadership into comprehensive models in the 1990s. Man...

The theme for this article is dynamic and innovative research environments and the factors that characterise them. The focus is on the relationship between the organisation and management of research, research processes and environmental conditions on the one hand, and research quality and outcomes on the other. The article takes as a point of departure the results of an empirical study of 15 u...

Information infrastructures and the large amounts of data that are accessible through them offer tremendous potential for innovation. In this workshop, we present and discuss two examples of such high-impact innovations: an open data e-infrastructure and government re-use of a business information infrastructure. Both offer possibilities for innovations in the public sector. The workshop covers...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Diabetes affects approximately 1 million South Africans. Hospital admissions, the largest single item of diabetes expenditure, are often precipitated by hyperglycaemic emergencies. A recent survey of a 200- bed hospital, serving approximately 1.3 million Cape Town residents, showed that hyperglycaemic emergencies comprised 25.6% of high-care unit admissions. A study wa...

What value does information technology (IT) create in governments and how does it do so? While business value of IT has been extensively studied in the information systems field, this has not been the case for public value. This is in part due to a lack of theoretical bases for investigating IT value in the public sector. To address this issue, we present a conceptual model on the mechanism by ...

Theory would predict that R&D organizations in different sectors of the economy specialize—according to each one’s comparative advantages—in generating innovations of different qualitative economic characteristics and at different phases in the evolution of a technology over time (i.e. in the technological trajectory). This idea of specialization by R&D sector is tested using U.S. patent data o...