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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study opinions and attitudes towards immigrants and minorities and their interactions with other barriers to minorities' economic integration. Specifically, the minority experts' own perceptions about these issues, the veracities and repercussions of...
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We investigate the impact of work group cooperative climate on affective commitment and turnover intentions of … professional employees, in interaction with climate strength (referring to the level of agreement among group members on what … of the content of a group’s climate, climate strength is an important determinant shaping employees’ attitudes toward the …
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A safety climate survey was conducted in three Australian construction industry organizations. Workers' perceptions of … climate. A two-dimensional schema was developed based upon the strength and the level of group safety climate. The resulting … framework was used to position the 40 workgroups included in the sample within one of four group safety climate types. A non …
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This research proposes an approach to measure hospital performance based on a generalization of Banker and Morey (1986) and Førsund (1996). This approach considers quasi-fixed inputs explicitly, calculates their implicit cost, and quantifies returns to scale. The performance measure is...
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Mortality differences between university, non-teaching public and for-profit hospitals are investigated using a French exhaustive administrative dataset on patients admitted for heart attack. Our results show that innovative procedures play a key role in explaining the effect of ownership status...
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This study investigates current status of balanced scorecard (BSC) application and its impact on hospital performance in China. A nationwide survey indicates that a large portion of Chinese public hospitals have adopted BSC in hospital administration at present. By applying univariate and...
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This research proposes an Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) sensitivity analysis to evaluate organisational performance of hospitals. The relative weights of evaluation criteria are determined using the AHP sensitivity analysis, followed by ranking of the hospitals for decision makers to evaluate...
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Using the 2002 data from 32 Korean hospitals and using a matching method (16 public versus 16 private hospitals), this study compares Financial Efficiency (FE), Technical Efficiency (TE) and Service Efficiency (SE) between public and private hospitals. This research tests three hypotheses. The...
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