The main purpose of this paper is to present an overview of the historical development of strategic management through a critical review of the most relevant theoretical proposals, and to consider its links to ethics and corporate social responsibility. From the very beginning of strategic management thought, attempts have been made to fuse ethical aspects, such as the values of senior manage…
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The health care industry is currently experiencing numerous fundamental changes. Healthcare organizations (HCOs) are increasingly challenged to look at their operations and find new opportunities to reorganize their processes, in order to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their services, reduce costs, be more competitive, and also provide high quality and more personalized patient car…
Nowadays due to the crisis, some government measures are aimed at reducing healthcare spending, affecting in some level or another the quality offered. Process management is said to be a useful tool for reducing healthcare costs by improving management without any additional economic investment. That is doing more with the same resources and without reducing the quality offered. In this study a…
Rankings of strategy journals are important for authors, readers, and promotion and tenure committees.We present several rankings, based either on the number of articles that cited the journal or the per article impact. Our analyses cover various periods between 1991 and 2006, for most of which the Strategic Management Journal was in first place and Journal of Economics & Management Strate…
Institutions of higher technical and vocational education (hereafter HTVE) in Taiwan face the pressures of a reduced number of students and competition for students from an increased number of domestic and international institutions. To cope with these challenges, HTVE institutions that are better equipped to respond to market requirements, and are prepared to make constant improvements in …
Allocating and managing resources has always been an important cornerstone of institutional leadership. Institutional resources include financial, physical and human components. Even in the best of times, it is a challenge to do this effectively. In times of diminished and shrinking resources, the difficulties of distributing these precious commodities across the institution in the most equi…
Educational institutions are becoming increasingly important for regional and national economies. Recent developments in Europe have drawn attention to the need for elite institutions. After a long domestic debate, Germany appointed three of its universities to Eliteunis in the fall of 2006. Similar discussions and initiatives have taken place in Finland and Denmark. In 2007, the Swedish un…
These guidelines address the growing need of management development and governance programmes that are broad-based and involve a number of actors and institutions that work together in common systems (for example, judicial, financial, information, electoral, planning, decentralised systems). Other thematic areas can adapt and utilise these guidelines as well. In fact, development practitio…
As outsourcing is becoming mandate for today’s business, there has been a variety of researches taking place. This paper discusses on managing operational risks in an organization where one or more business processes are being outsourced. We first review on changing nature of operational risks not only in outsourced process itself, but also among any other interrelated processes. Then a c…
With great speed and relatively little public awareness, a significant change has occurred in the way some decisions are made about a patient's medical care. Decisions that were once the exclusive province of the doctor and patient now may be examined in advance by an external reviewer—someone accountable to an employer, insurer, health maintenance organization (HMO), or other entity responsi…
In 1999, the multidisciplinary Tavistock group prepared a generic statement of ethical principles to govern health care systems. This paper elaborates on these principles in two directions. First, it develops a set of quality standards, based on ethical principles, intended to regulate health care delivery and service management. Second, it focuses them on ‘publicly oriented’ (not necessari…
Abstract A review of the extant literature of enterprise risk management (ERM) and capital allocation shows that insurers have an incentive to manage capital costs through risk management. Capital is the most expensive and important input in production for insurance companies. They deploy capital by holding a large number of financial risk positions that need to be evaluated. ERM can help …
Globalization of markets, the extremely fast pace of technology, especially in communications technology, increasingly fierce competition between credit institutions to provide the most competitive products and services to customers led to an acceleration of activities in the banking system internationally. The cooperative banks have undergone extensive reforms since 2006, pursuing their re…
The Accounting Education Change Commission has recommended accounting courses include a focus on non-technical skills, such as written and oral communication, teamwork, problem solving, and critical thinking skills. Employers of entry-level managerial accountants have indicated these skills are necessary, but that students are also lacking in technical cost or managerial accounting preparat…