Current Issue : January - March Volume : 2016 Issue Number : 1 Articles : 6 Articles
Organizations have used numerous sourcing strategies to realize an underlying value of IT from\nstrategic and operational perspectives. However, a number of these sourcing strategies have\nfailed to deliver on their expected outcomes. Multisourcing has been advanced as a form of\nsourcing which addresses the deficiencies of other failed strategies. This research attempts to\nexamine the notion of benefits and risks for IT multisourcing so as to explore the underpinnings\nof IT multisourcing practice in the telecommunication industry. By employing a case study we\nfound that the benefits identified are mainly associated with ability to lower IT costs,\nimprovement of IT service levels and enabling access to specialist vendors for adaptive\ncapability. The costs and risks of IT multisourcing addressed are related to vendor\nmanagement, information security in general and effective service management across\norganizations in particular....
Using a large-scale dataset from WoS, this paper explores the publications on healthcare\nrisk management, through bibliometric analysis. The bibliometric analysis reflects how\nresearch in hospital risk management and healthcare management evolved over time,\noffering insights on the most relevant and influential research. Based on the idea that\nresearchers publish their most important results in articles, conferences, books and\nreviews, there is diffusion in this research field, with many reference countries. The\nbibliometric analysis reflects the growing interest of research for the area of healthcare\nrisk management. The need to provide high quality medical services requires the design\nand implementation of a set of key performance indicators for each strategic objective set\nby the hospital management....
The transfer and reuse of tacit knowledge is important in every organisation. As universities are\nan important part of our society and play a significant role in the transfer of tacit knowledge, it is\nvital that teaching staff engage in transferring tacit knowledge not only to their students but also\namongst their peers too. This research paper explores whether the transfer of tacit knowledge\nshould be made mandatory and a key performance indicator in the annual performance appraisal\nof academic staff. As academics are classified as knowledge workers, this study has gathered\nprimary data through interviews of teaching staff in four post 1992 Australian universities. The\nfindings have revealed there is a high level of discontent towards making tacit knowledge transfer\nmandatory particularly because it can be challenging to measure. The paper outlines multiple\nrecommendations that can create and promote a tacit knowledge sharing culture in universities,\nlargely driven by motivation and encouragement by senior management....
The debate over how to solve the problem of rising health care costs has produced a vast\namount of literature in many different fields. In particular, economists have developed a\nmethod known as stochastic frontier analysis which can be used to estimate how inefficiencies\nwithin the health care industry can contribute to rising health care costs. Most studies of this\nnature estimate a best practice frontier focusing only on the long-run outcomes of hospitals,\nusing variables such as patient days and mortality rates as proxies. In this study we approach\nthe issue of hospital efficiency differently by estimating the best practice production frontier for\nthe initial treatment of patients admitted for heart attack, heart failure, or pneumonia. We are\nparticularly interested in analyzing what role (if any) hospital ownership plays in determining\ntechnical inefficiency. According to bureaucracy theory, it is hypothesized that non-profit and\nfor-profit hospitals will exhibit greater efficiency relative to public hospitals. Our results reveal\nsome evidence that private hospitals are in fact more efficient than public hospitals in two out of\nthe three medical conditions analyzed....
Long confined to early pre-tertiary school-leaver training and often synonymous with academic\nfailure, sandwich training has experienced a remarkable turnaround, debunking common\nmisconceptions and gaining ground in higher education. Sandwich training improves academic\nsuccess rates and school-to-work transition prospects, making it both a pathway to excellence\nand a gateway into employment by keeping a clear tack in the face of socialââ?¬â??economic\nheadwindsââ?¬â?especially for young graduates. The factors involved are primarily education driven\n(academic success, best-in-class graduates, etc.), but where sandwich training really\nfloats is in the job market, by co-potentializing both school-to-work transition and\nemployability. The Corsica-region University-sponsored Placements & Apprenticeships Service\n[CFA UNIV], as regional leader in post-secondary sandwich placement (65% of sandwich placement\nstudents in Corsica), is therefore structurally engaged as a facilitator of the island wide\neconomy, providing business and industry with a pipeline of core skill sets while readying\nthem to rise to tomorrowââ?¬â?¢s economic and human resources challenges. This paper attempts to\nhighlight this very real trajectory by reporting the lessons learned from Corsica-region CFA\nUNIV experience....
This study distinguishes between the influence of information source and information channels\non the information choice strategies of the Arab tourists in Malaysia. It employed a survey\nresearch approach. Primary data was used for the study with questionnaire as the survey\ninstrument. 358 Arab tourists in Malaysia were used as the research subjects for the study. The\nvarious hypotheses for this study were tested using the smartPLS analysis technique. The finding\nof the study revealed that both information source and information channels factors significantly\naffect the information choice strategies of the Arab tourists. Thus, our study concludes that\ninformation choice strategies are individually determined by the information source and\ninformation channels. This finding raises important question and direction for future inquiry....
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