, we exploit the fact that choice-based reforms will create sharper financial incentives for hospitals in markets where … choice is geographically feasible and that prior to 2006, in the absence of patient choice, hospitals had no direct financial …

This article explores the conceptualisation of choice as autonomy using three components – self-reflection, active …-collected data for the UK. ‘Choice’ has been promoted in social policy across many developed welfare states, often on the grounds … that it is instrumentally valuable: choice by service users is said to incentivise providers to enhance quality and …

Recent substantive reforms to the English National Health Service expanded patient choice and encouraged hospitals to …

our framework of optimal expectations to three different economic settings. In a portfolio choice problem, agents …

Globalizing knowledge economies foster conditions that intensify the role and value of organizational reputation risk … reputation risk. Having noted the ambivalence that surrounds ‘risk positions’, we present a re-definition of reputation risk that … encompasses the dynamics of contemporary risk and trust relationships. We explore the capacity of different trust forms to reduce …

Building on previous studies on perceptions of inequality, welfare and risk we investigate the structure of individuals …' rankings of uncertain prospects in terms of risk and their relationship to individual preferences. We examine three interlinked … propositions that are fundamental to the standard economic approach to risk: (i) that rankings by risk are simply the reverse of …

choice behaviour. We assessed perceptions and behaviours in six domains (ethical; investment; gambling; health and safety … showed that personality had a direct effect on risky choice behaviour in four domains (social, ethical, gambling and … recreational risk-taking). In addition, perceived costs and benefits mediated the relations between personality and risk-taking in …