Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the absolute and risk-adjusted stock return performance of the US health care industry conditional upon the presidential administration’s political party and the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy stance. It evaluates this return...

It is considered whether consultation is a strategy that can be used to bring about change in those organisational settings where attempts to provide senior managers with off‐the‐job training has had little or no effect. Findings are reported which suggest that while consultation can be...

Gives a preliminary exploration into mission statements and their impact on nurses′ attitudes towards them. Mission statements are given much credence by top level management, as part of the thrust towards corporate identity. Only 15 per cent of nurses (from an opportunistic sample of 87)...

The multiple roots of Employee Assistance Programmes belie the commonly held view which sees them simply as the descendant of Occupational Alcohol Programmes. Their origins in performance management processes, however, and particularly the way in which their development has been influenced by...

Purpose – Anti‐consumption is a new domain of research that deals with why individuals avoid consumption of particular products. To date, research in this area is only confined to the rejection of goods, with no evidence from the services industry. The purpose of this paper is to explore the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore factors contributing to the dynamics in healthcare work practices and how health workers cope with the emerging dynamics. By focusing on these aspects, the study seeks to inform the design and implementation of health management information...

Purpose This study aims to explore the involvement of middle management in forming strategies to manage variable acute patient flows at a hospital. Design/methodology/approach Empirical evidence from a university hospital was gathered via interviews, internal documents, observation and...

Although the Internet is already a valuable information resource in medicine, there are important challenges to be faced before physicians and general users will have extensive access to this information. As a result of a research effort to compile a health‐related Internet directory, new...