This paper assessed the rapid diffusion of bariatric surgery programs, the surgical treatment for morbid obesity, in US hospitals between 1995 and 2000 and the impact of organisational factors and environmental factors associated with adoption or expansion. We found that diffusion of bariatric...

The ongoing financial and economic crisis throughout the industrialised world has spotlighted a number of significant deficiencies in corporate governance and management. The strength and composition of the management team along with effective corporate governance policy should play an important...

Internationalisation as a strategic element in the current context of globalisation is increasingly a determinant of business success. Based on the literature in the area of internationalisation and networks, through a case study - a cooperation network involving small and medium-sized...

The Porter hypothesis asserts that properly designed environmental regulation motivates firms to innovate, which ultimately improves profitability. In this study, we test empirically the Porter hypothesis and the competing hypothesis that regulation undermines profitability (“costly regulation...

The eastern enlargement of the European Union has prompted heated debates about social dumping related to labour standards and industrial relations. Capital mobility is seen as a crucial social dumping mechanism. The article uses time-series-cross-section data for the years 1999–2008 to...

This paper provides a theoretical and empirical analysis of how environmental charges affect a particular sector of the economy. Our approach allows a simple comparison of how partial and “general” equilibrium results may differ. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1993