CONTEXT: Communities differ in the way that medical care for medically indigent persons is organized and delivered, which is likely to result in differences across communities in the ability of uninsured persons to obtain medical care. Changes in…
Papers in Public Welfare
Public Welfare papers in Social Sciences, A
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Interventions that build upon the natural components of early mother-infant interactions are critical to reversing the sequelae of maternal substance abuse and breaking the cycle of addiction. This paper proposes a theoretical model that blends…
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The implosion of centrally-planned economies has led to a widespread and uncritical belief that a free market is the best mechanism for structuring the economic and social sectors. Many international agencies have pushed this belief on the…
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This typology breaks down the traditional boundaries between the nonprofit and private sectors and draws definition to this new institutional animalpart business-part socialthe social enterprise. In doing so, the typology explores how institutions…
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Neoliberalism - the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action - has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so.Its spread has depended upon…
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Absenteeism is an issue that has grown in importance over the past few years; however, little has been done to explore the impact of presenteeism on individual and organisational performance and well-being. This article is based on interviews…
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It is argued that the ability of a firm to recognize the value of new, external information, assimilate it, and apply it to commercial ends is critical to the firm's innovative capabilities. This capability, called a firm's absorptive capacity, is…
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CONTEXT: African American adolescents are at high risk of contracting sexually transmitted infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), but which behavioral interventions to reduce risk are most effective and who should conduct them is not…
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The article informs that graduate students at Stanford University are starting their own companies. The university has become a hotbed for social entrepreneurs. For example graduate Josh Nesbit established his startup, Frontline SMS:Medic in Uganda…
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Sexually abused children and adolescents, in limbo between revelation of abuse and trial of an alleged offender, or in emotional turmoil after such abuse, need special care and support. Evidence indicates that a number of such children are held in…
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Student researchers face daunting challenges when attempting to take a developed technology and use it as the foundation for an emerging enterprise. Engineering students typically lack an overall understanding of the commercialization process…
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In this paper, we employ resource-based and institutional theories to examine the current role of business schools in academic entrepreneurship. In particular, we seek to identify and understand the challenges to business schools contributing to the…
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Over the past several decades higher education scholars have conducted a significant amount of research aimed at understanding the implications of enhanced interactions between the academy and the private marketplace. Accordingly, a voluminous…
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This study explores the process of organizational change by examining localized social learning in organizational subunits. Specifically, we examine participation in university technology transfer, a new organizational initiative, by tracking 1,780…
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Establishing the microfoundations of academic entrepreneurship requires closer scrutiny of a key actor contributing to this phenomenon-the university scientist. We investigate the sense-making that scientists engage in as part of their participation…
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This article offers a new approach to the conceptualization of the human capital resource by developing a multilevel model connecting micro, intermediate, and macro levels of scholarship. We define human capital as a unit-level resource that is…
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OBJECTIVE: Acid-suppressant drugs are commonly prescribed for elderly patients, a population in which vitamin B(12) deficiency is a common disorder. The purpose of this study was to examine the possible association between use of prescription…
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The article discusses the importance of happiness, cardinalism and interpersonal comparability from an economic standpoint. Modern economists are strongly biased in favor of preference, in contrast to happiness, ordinalism, and against interpersonal…
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Lipsky's Street-level Bureaucracy (Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 1980) has exerted a strong influence on the study of public service organisations. There has been a growing interest in using this perspective to understand the organisational…
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