The contributors to this text consider the growing importance of private military companies and efforts to regulate their activities.
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In this book, the authors, as policy analysts, examine the overall context and dynamics of modern medicine, focusing on the changing conditions of medical practice through the lens of corporatization of medicine, physician unionization, physician strikes, and current health poli…
Five years ago, C.K. Prahalad's The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid showed companies how they could reignite profits and growth by serving the world's five billion poorest people. Hundreds of firms have successfully taken that path--building large, profitable businesses tha…
Examines the challenges to private sector growth in 12 Middle East and North African (MENA) countries, assessing comparative performance against a number of indicators and focusing on the special role of SMEs and entrepreneurial activity. Highlights the variation among countries…
Examines the challenges to private sector growth in 12 Middle East and North African (MENA) countries, assessing comparative performance against a number of indicators and focusing on the special role of SMEs and entrepreneurial activity. Highlights the variation among countries…
"The main thesis of the book is that the welfare state cannot have a sustainable future, given the overburdened state budget, unless it is managed by a strategic planning process. The book deals, moreover, with the new emergence of a nonprofit private sector that feeds a kind of…
This dissertation examines the effect of oil wealth on a country's business environment and government policymaking towards firms and entrepreneurs. It begins with a game theoretic approach that derives hypotheses about business environment reforms given the interests of the gov…
Background: Over 50% of the world lives in an urban area. The highest rate of urban population growth is in Sub-Saharan Africa, where fertility rates remain high. To slow population growth and improve health and well-being, family planning (FP) advocates argue for increasing the…
Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) have been lauded as a primary modality for stimulating growth and for effecting positive social changes in developing economies such as Ghana. The problem is that FDI activity in economies such as Ghana has not developed into sustained and broad …
By focusing on the relationship between financial stability and monetary policy for the cases of Chile, Colombia, Japan, Portugal and the UK, this thesis aims to add to the existing literature on the fundamental issue of the relationship between financial stability and monetary …
The purpose of this study is to examine the perceptions toward distance learning in the private sector in Saudi Arabia. Specifically, this study aims to examine and explain the impact of the type of organizations and occupation on the perceptions of training managers and trainin…
The purpose of the study was to assess the role of Colleges of Technology in relation to human resource development in Saudi Arabia, in general, and to investigate and identify factors that have an impact on the hiring Colleges of Technology graduates in the private sector, in p…
In the industrialized world today, management is characterized by extensive use of computers to manage rapid change, information overload, and complex decision-making. Literature suggests that Decision Support Systems, computer packages offering information retrieval, problem-st…
The purpose of this study was to explore human resource (HR) managers' perceptions of training practices (i.e., needs assessment, trainee preparation, training program review, accountability, management support, knowledge transfer, and performance improvement) in Saudi private s…
Quality of care improvement is a major issue in hospital management. Community demands for better services, market competition, shifts of epidemiological patterns, and the utilization of high medical technology all bring the hospital into a transitional environment. At this crit…
In many of the world's economies, private sector activity is dominated by business groups. Such groups are comprised of a diverse set of businesses, often initiated by a single family, and bound together by equity cross-ownership and common board membership. In this dissertation…