...Thomas N. Garavan; Ronan Carbery; Robert G. Hamlin; Taran Patel Purpose This paper aims to report the results of a replication study of perceived managerial and leadership effectiveness within a Romanian public sector hospital, and to discuss the extent to which they are similar to and different...

... that accounting (in this case, cost accounting) works as a device for mitigating agency costs between hospital management and hospital units. In day‐to‐day practice, a lot of physicians seem to oppose the growing influence of economic thinking in the health‐care sector. This attitude has been illustrated...

...John P. Wilson; Steven Western Describes research conducted into some of the potential inhibitors which can reduce the effectiveness of a hospital performance appraisal system in relation to training and development plans. Takes as its perspective the views of the appraisees which counter the more...