Public ownership / nationalization

Governing boards play a crucial role in ensuring that public and non-profit organizations are publicly accountable and perform well.

Public-Private Partnership (PPP) is a channel through which the public sector can seek alternative funding and expertise from the private sector to procure public infrastructure.

If the government is a problem, what should be done about it?

The piecemeal developments in product liability reform in Europe have their origins in the tragic association of phocomelia in children with thalidomide in 1962.

A first-rate organizational business plan demands an understanding of the dynamics behind remuneration, joint ventures, partnerships, alliances, major contracts; in fact, all of the commercial imperatives that will define success or failure over a five-year (or longer) period.

How do you prevent a critical care nurse from accidentally delivering a morphine overdose to an ill patient?

The era of hybrid governance is here.

Application of additive manufacturing and tissue engineering in the fields of science and technology enables the manufacturing of biocompatible, customized, reliable, and cost-effective parts, restoring the functionality of a failed human body part.

Digital technologies is a major emerging area to invest and research in new models of health management.

In the twenty-first century, the global community constantly strives to bring structure and order to the world through strategic means.

Everywhere you look in healthcare, disruptive changes are emerging, yet the pressure to keep productivity up is ever-present.

How much risk should we take?

The purpose of this book is to offer insights into the complex and often unclear context of public sector management, providing a new theoretical and practical approach to the analysis and interpretation of these issues.

This reference text discusses integrated approaches to improve the objectives of additive manufacturing in medical application.

Through the eye of an economist Thalmann explores 200 years of the dynamics of freight transport development in Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

The destruction of the Covid-19 pandemic has marked every society with deep-seated wounds whose scars have only begun to heal.

There is a secret inside healthcare, and it's this: We can do healthcare for a lot less money.

Contemporary Urban Planning, 12e provides students with an unvarnished and in depth introduction to the historic, economic, political, legal, ideological, and environmental factors affecting urban planning today.

This title, first published in 1993, addresses two questions: can evaluation research function as a surrogate market in non-profit organisations to measure, value, and assess the goods and services they provide?

A Short Guide to Fraud Risk is for: * anyone who needs to better understand fraud risks, either company-wide, or in a specific business unit; * directors and managers who would like to add value by building fraud resistance into their organization and to demonstrate to shareholders, regulators or other stakeholders that they are managing fraud risks, rather than just reacting to incidents; * regulators, auditors and compliance professionals who need to assess the effectiveness of an organisation's fraud prevention measures.

Public policy and public administration are fundamental to a functioning society.

A Drucker management classic, first published in 1990, which breaks down any narrow definition of management and is aimed specifically at decision-makers and managers working in non-profit making and charitable organizations to help them apply the principles of good management to their sector.

Drawing on a lifetime of experience, Roger Dobbah gives readers an in-depth view of R&D survival strategies and tactics and demonstrates how to apply them to any organization.

The structure of corporate governance has made significant progress in OECD countries but it remains imperfectly linked to the activities of many businesses.

The medical sector has been growing exponentially over the last decade and healthcare services are becoming more complex and costly.

Microfluidic biochips have gained prominence due to their versatile applications to biochemistry and health-care domains such as point-of-care clinical diagnosis of tropical and cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes, toxicity analysis, and for the mitigation of the global HIV crisis, among others.

This book reveals and describes the leadership and culture change required to remove waste from healthcare processes and eliminate the root cause of soaring costs, poor quality and safety, and limited access.

The best decisions made by public managers are based not on instinct, but on an informed understanding of what's happening on the ground.

Do you want to be a part of a service that puts service users' needs first?

Implementing new information technologies into the healthcare sector can provide alternatives to managing patients' health records, systems, and improving the quality of care received.

Indigenous peoples are an intrinsic part of countries like Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Finland, USA, India, Russia and almost all parts of South America and Africa.

We have written this book because the story it tells warrants a wide audience.

This book argues that the international community has a moral duty to intervene on behalf of a population affected by a natural hazard when their government is either unable or unwilling to provide basic, life-saving assistance.

The power of purchasers exposes the weaknesses of conventional thinking on the costs and benefits of priorities.

Stress in policing remains a serious concern for individual officers, their families, their organizations and society at large.

Healthcare Kaizen focuses on the principles and methods of daily continuous improvement, or Kaizen, for healthcare professionals and organizations.

Managed care organizations are paving the way to the future of health care delivery in the United States and countries around the world.

The book examines the integration of IoT, Blockchain, and Smart Healthcare, providing a comprehensive analysis of these advanced technologies and their impact on the healthcare industry.

Service design has established itself as a practice that enables industries to design and deliver their services with a human-centred approach.

Health policy in the United States has been shaped by the political, socioeconomic, and ideological environment, with important roles played by public and private actors, as well as institutional and individual entities, in designing the contemporary American healthcare system.

The treatment of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a complex challenge.

Practitioners operate in a necessary reality.

Management, Organization and Childbirth: Towards a New Model for the Birth Path explores the complex topic of the birth path with a multidisciplinary magnifying glass on the paradigms, languages, and tools critical to the organization, management, and clinical science.

Health policy in the United States has been shaped by the political, socioeconomic, and ideological environment, with important roles played by public and private actors, as well as institutional and individual entities, in designing the contemporary American healthcare system.

Data integrity is fundamental in a pharmaceutical and medical devices quality system.

This research compendium of arts governance brings expert insights from management through the humanities and social sciences to provide a comprehensive global overview of how the field is evolving as the world is in turmoil.

One of the most significant and yet largely overlooked factors influencing performance and workplace problem solving in many large organizations is that of national culture.

As healthcare challenges such as human aging and traffic accidents continue to increase exponentially, the biomedical sector faces a significant obstacle in arranging patient-specific biomedical products.

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