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Managing Unmanageable Physicians: Leadership, Stewardship, And Disruptive Behavior, Tim Keogh, William Martin Aug 2004

Managing Unmanageable Physicians: Leadership, Stewardship, And Disruptive Behavior, Tim Keogh, William Martin

William Marty Martin

Physician and health care leaders are seeking guidance and support on how to address disruptive behavior that has an impact on safety, quality, and performance. This article equips leaders with a model and process to prevent and address disruptive behavior.


Risk Sharing And The Market For Corporate Control: A Case For Golden Parachutes, Atreya Chakraborty Dec 2003

Risk Sharing And The Market For Corporate Control: A Case For Golden Parachutes, Atreya Chakraborty

Atreya Chakraborty

The predictability of security returns has received considerable attention in the literature, and yet the predictability of bond returns beyond the US markets has remained far less explored. Here we plan to remedy the shortcoming, and in that effort we analyse the ability of several predetermined information variables in predicting bond returns in the European market. We test if variables, commonly used for that matter in the context of other markets (such as inverse relative wealth, term spread, real bond yield and a January dummy) are also useful predictors of European bond returns. Due to some particularities of the sample …


A Borderless World Of Hypermobile And Homeless Capital? An Evaluation Of Financial Flows In The Mutual Fund Industry, Colin C. Williams Dec 2003

A Borderless World Of Hypermobile And Homeless Capital? An Evaluation Of Financial Flows In The Mutual Fund Industry, Colin C. Williams

Colin C Williams

The aim of this paper is to evaluate critically the hyperglobalist thesis that with the emergence of fund-manager capitalism, hypermobile and homeless capital increasingly roams a borderless world in search of investment opportunities. Drawing upon Standard and Poor’s Micropal data base to analyze financial flows in the mutual fund industries of nine developed market economies, evidence is found of some globally orientated funds as well as more rapid-fire trading, faster fund switching and the disembedding of capital ownership from place and individuals. However, little evidence is found that the apogee of financial globalization - a seamless world of hypermobile and …