The for-profit hospital is in the minority numerically in all developed countries. Although the for-profits' market share has been quite stable for decades, for-profit chains have grown in share and influence in the United States. By contrast, for-profit chains have made few inroads in other...

The quest for better livelihood opportunities has led to large-scale migration and the mushrooming of slums in several Indian cities. Unfortunately, a significant section of the urban poor do not have access to many of the benefits of urban development. It emerges from the re-analysis of Madhya...

The present study describes and explains the changing role of the state in the Italian healthcare system since the beginning of the 1970s, with a particular focus on developments following 1978 when the healthcare system was transformed from a social insurance system into a national health...

This paper deals with the changing role of the state in the Dutch healthcare system. At the eve of the first oil crisis the Netherlands had a relatively compound healthcare system combining several characteristics of the three Western healthcare system types: National Health Service, social...

We examined the association between financial disclosure and Net Interest Costs (NIC) in terms of finance studies that have suggested that the municipal bond market is segmented. Our results indicate that financial reporting measures are more strongly associated with NIC in the regional primary...

As part of a federal government initiative to increase efficiency and quality, in 1996 the United States' VHA (Veterans Health Administration) radically restructured its organizational design and management processes. This study uses 1992-1998 clinical, workload and financial data to examine the...

This study offers empirical evidence of the principal top management styles in the emphasis of multiple forms of controls. In particular, it analyzed the principal styles in how top managers emphasize financial, nonfinancial and selected behavioral (action accountability) controls in the...

This study explores how the determinants of financial, nonfinancial and behavioural controls vary in foreign subsidiary manager performance evaluations. Possible impacts of the following factors are analyzed: extent of geographical dispersion, decentralization and perceived environmental...

This paper reviews and proposes additional research concerning the role of publicly reported financial accounting information in the governance processes of corporations. We first review and analyze research on the use of financial accounting measures in managerial incentive plans and explore...