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Administrative Relationships, Agency Theory, And The Summer Work Travel Program: 2012-2013, Mark Reardon
Administrative Relationships, Agency Theory, And The Summer Work Travel Program: 2012-2013, Mark Reardon
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This study discusses the ability of the Summer Work Travel Program (SWTP) to meet the objectives outlined in its authorizing legislation, the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961. These goals include educational exchange between participants and the U.S. community, cultural exchange between participants and the U.S. community, and the promotion of peace exemplified by SWTP operators and the U.S. community. The study adopts agency and transaction cost theory to guide its discussion of the administrative relationship between the U.S. State Department and those designated as Summer Work Travel Sponsors. This study's findings include instances of informational and preference …
Deployed Electronic Medical Record Policy Compliance: An Intra-Department Principal-Agent Perspective, Mark Mellott
Deployed Electronic Medical Record Policy Compliance: An Intra-Department Principal-Agent Perspective, Mark Mellott
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To understand problems related to a policy of implementing a lifelong longitudinal electronic health record (EHR) more fully, this dissertation examines compliance with changes in policy over time. We analyze drivers of compliance with a required electronic medical record (EMR) by hospital clinicians completing the records for deployed service members. This study examines compliance as an outcome of principal-agent (PA) relationships, with the EMR modeled as the measure of success between one level of bureaucratic principal (i.e. medical command) with control over the necessary mechanisms in order to ensure compliance of agents (i.e., medical professionals).
Policy compliance is operationalized in …