Fifty percent of the U.S. population gets health insurance through an employer, and roughly half of employers only offer one health plan. There- fore, the choices made by firms about what plan(s) to offer are critical to understanding the health insurance available to workers. This paper focuses...

Analyzing data spanning three decades covering the near universe of births, we study county-level differences in Cesarean section (C-section) rates among first-time mothers of singleton births. Our research reveals persistent geographic variation in C- section rates for both low- and high-risk...

Introduction: Taking Bourdieu further into studies of organizations and management / Sarah Robinson, Jette Ernst, Kristian Larsen, and Ole Jacob Thomassen -- Caught between times : explaining resistance to change through the tale of Don Quixote / Henrik Koll & Jette Ernst -- Recalling or...

The culture and attitudes of any institution are shaped by history and this may affect absorptive capacity and adjustment to change or responses to challenge or opportunity. The article explores how responses to policy initiatives played out within individual universities and the implications...

Knowledge transfer (KT) has been identified as an essential element of innovation that drives competitive advantage in increasingly knowledge-driven economies and in which small firms have an important part to play. A number of recent UK Government reports have sought to increase awareness of...

The English National Service Framework for Mental Health stipulates that the highest quality of health care should be provided for mental health service users in the most efficient and effective manner. Incidents of aggression and violence militate against achieving that goal, yet such incidents...