What do Tetra aquarium supplies, Elector-Nite sensors, and Nissha touch panels have in common? They are typical 'hidden champions,' medium-sized, unknown companies (with annual revenues under $4 ...billion) that have quietly, under the radar, become world market leaders in their respective industries. Hermann Simon has been studying these hidden champions for over 20 years, and in this sequel to his worldwide bestseller, Hidden Champions, he explores the dramatic impact of globalization on these companies and their outstanding international success. Going deep inside more than a thousand hidden champions around the world, Simon reveals the common patterns, behaviors, and approaches that make these companies successful, and, in many cases, able to sustain world market leadership for generations, despite intense competition, financial pressures, and constantly evolving market dynamics. In the tradition of In Search of Excellence, Built to Last, and Good to Great, Simon identifies the factors in business operations, customer service and marketing, innovation, human resources management, organizational design, leadership, and strategy that separate these outstanding performers from the rest of the pack – and from the large corporations of the day. In the process, he provides a glimpse behind the curtains of many secretive companies who buck today’s management fads, and succeed instead through such common-sense strategies as focusing on core capabilities, delivering real value to the customer, establishing long-term relationships, innovating continuously, rewarding employees for performance, decentralized operations, and developing an unparalleled global presence. Hidden champions teach us that good management means doing many small things better than the competition—quietly, with determination, commitment, and never-ending stamina.
"The handbook presents the most up-to-date discussions on well-established methodologies and theories in the field, while systematically surveying emerging fields in MCDA such as conjoint ...measurement, fuzzy preferences, fuzzy integrals, rough sets, etc. Multiple criteria decision analysis: State of the Art Surveys is a valuable reference volume (more than 2000 references) for the field of decision analysis. It provides graduate students, researchers, and practitioners with a sweeping survey of MCDA theory, methodologies, and applications. It is a handbook that is particularly suitable for use in seminars in Decision Analysis, Decision Support, and Decision Theory."--BOOK JACKET. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.
Health care costs make up nearly a fifth of U.S. gross domestic product, but health care is a peculiar thing to buy and sell. Both a scarce resource and a basic need, it involves physical and ...emotional vulnerability and at the same time it operates as big business. Patients have little choice but to trust those who provide them care, but even those providers confront a great deal of medical uncertainty about the services they offer.Selling Our Soulslooks at the contradictions inherent in one particular health care market-hospital care. Based on extensive interviews and observations across the three hospitals of one California city, the book explores the tensions embedded in the market for hospital care, how different hospitals manage these tensions, the historical trajectories driving disparities in contemporary hospital practice, and the perils and possibilities of various models of care.
As Adam Reich shows, the book's three featured hospitals could not be more different in background or contemporary practice. PubliCare was founded in the late nineteenth century as an almshouse in order to address the needs of the destitute. HolyCare was founded by an order of nuns in the mid-twentieth century, offering spiritual comfort to the paying patient. And GroupCare was founded in the late twentieth century to rationalize and economize care for middle-class patients and their employers. Reich explains how these legacies play out today in terms of the hospitals' different responses to similar market pressures, and the varieties of care that result.
Selling Our Soulsis an in-depth investigation into how hospital organizations and the people who work in them make sense of and respond to the modern health care market.
Management and Supervisory Practices for Environmental Professionals: Advanced Competencies, Volume II (4th Edition) by Herman Koren and Alma Mary Anderson is reviewed.
Management and Supervisory Practices for Environmental Professionals: Basic Principles, Volume I (4th Edition) by Herman Koren and Alma Mary Anderson is reviewed.
Entrepreneurship has played an essential role in economic prosperity and social stability of many developed countries. India has the highest percentage of young population in the world and faces ...massive challenges with its high levels of unemployment among the youth. The unemployment scenario primarily due to lack of skill and entrepreneurial awareness among youth. The objectives of this study were to (1) examine the cognitive, affective, and behavioural components of students’ attitude towards entrepreneurship education in Indian universities/colleges, (2) measuring the impact of students' attitude towards entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial intention (3) examine the role of control variables (e.g. gender and entrepreneurial family background), on the relationship between attitude towards entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention. The respondents were students from different business management colleges/universities in central India. Purposive sampling technique was used in the selection of the colleges/universities, while simple random sampling was employed in the selection of the respondents. Data from five hundred nine filled questionnaire were analysed using ‘R Programing Language’ to obtain the results. The results showed a significant positive impact of attitude towards entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial intention.
•This study presented an approach to understanding the entrepreneurial intention among management students.•Positive attitude towards entrepreneurship education impacted profoundly on entrepreneurial intention.•The entrepreneurial environment is positively influenced the entrepreneurial intention.•Family background plays a vital role in entrepreneurial intention.
The social vulnerability metric Saulsberry, Loren; Bhargava, Ankur; Zeng, Sharon ...
Health services research,
08/2023, Letnik:
58, Številka:
4
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Objective: To derive and validate a new ecological measure of the social determinants of health (SDoH), calculable at the zip code or county level. Data Sources and Study Setting: The most recent ...releases of secondary, publicly available data were collected from national U.S. health agencies as well as state and city public health departments. Study Design: The Social Vulnerability Metric (SVM) was constructed from U.S. zip-code level measures (2018) from survey data using multidimensional Item Response Theory and validated using outcomes Including all-cause mortality (2016), COVID-19 vaccination (2021), and emergency department visits for asthma (2018). The SVM was also compared with the existing Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) to determine convergent validity and differential predictive validity. Data Collection/Extraction Methods: The data were collected directly from published files available to the public online from national U.S. health agencies as well as state and city public health departments. Principal Findings: The correlation between SVM scores and national age-adjusted county all-cause mortality was r = 0.68. This correlation demonstrated the SVM's robust validity and outperformed the SVI with an almost four-fold Increase in explained variance (46% vs. 12%). The SVM was also highly correlated (r > 0.60) to zip-code level health outcomes for the state of California and city of Chicago. Conclusions: The SVM offers a measurement tool improving upon the performance of existing SDoH composite measures and has broad applicability to public health that may help in directing future policies and interventions. The SVM provides a single measure of SDoH that better quantifies associations with health outcomes. KEYWORDS biostatistical methods, determinants of health/population health/socioeconomic causes of health, health care disparities, health equity, health policy, social determinants of health What is known on this topic * Social determinants of health (SDoH) impact people's health and well-being. * SDoH can contribute to health disparities and inequities. * Valid measurement of SDoH can help accurately target interventions for communities facing the greatest social vulnerability. What this study adds * Introduces the Social Vulnerability Metric (SVM) as a new measure of social vulnerability. * The SVM was derived from SDoH variables from multiple nationally representative public databases using multidimensional Item Response Theory. * The SVM provides a higher level of precision than existing SDoH metrics in estimating a geographic index of social vulnerability.
