Agency theory remains the dominant means of examining governance issues and ownership characteris... more Agency theory remains the dominant means of examining governance issues and ownership characteristics related to large organizations. Research in these areas within large organizations has increased our understanding, yet little is known about the influence that these mechanisms and characteristics have had on IPO firm performance. This study tests an agency perspective that venture capital involvement, governance and equity characteristics affect health care and biotechnology IPO firm performance. Our results indicate that there is no correlation between these factors and health care and biotechnology IPO wealth creation. For these entrepreneurs, our findings suggest a contingent approach for the use of these mechanisms.
Objectives. The purpose of this article was to investigate the relationship between state health ... more Objectives. The purpose of this article was to investigate the relationship between state health agencies' adherence to the recommendations of the United State's Institute of Medicine's (IOM) report,'The Future of Public Health', and changes in their populations' health. Study design. Data were abstracted from agencies' plans, budgets, annual reports, etc. spanning a 5-year period. A comprehensive change in population health measure over the same period was drawn from the UnitedHealth Group's annual survey.
The management field is characterized by two countervailing perspectives that attempt to define w... more The management field is characterized by two countervailing perspectives that attempt to define what constitutes appropriate research valued by scholars and practitioners. Historically the field has moved from an emphasis on one or the other - from applied research and practice to basic research and theory and then back again. It is our contention that a shift toward emphasizing a basic research focus has occurred at the expense of applied research, but that as efforts to increase the emphasis on applied research increase, there may be a danger of moving too far in that direction. We summarize the tension between these and highlight potential pitfalls if either is carried too far. We suggest that these tensions result from competing markets and conclude with suggestions for encouraging diversity among research foci, concentrating on rigor rather than the particular focus of research activity, and making institutional changes to foster both forms of research.
Leaders in public organizations are adopting many private sector management practices to control ... more Leaders in public organizations are adopting many private sector management practices to control costs and increase efficiency. Nowhere is this more evident than among state health agencies. State health agencies were encouraged to change the way they operate by the 1988 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report on The Future of Public Health. This report portrayed public health as being in disarray. To address major deficiencies identified by the IOM study, some public health leaders have reevaluated their environments, reconfigured their organizations, and adopted a strategic mindset. The purpose of this research is to explore the various organizational configurations of state health agencies. Replicating methods used in studies of private sector organizations, five distinct strategic configurations or archetypes were identified. This comprehensive public health agency taxonomy will assist future researchers in analyzing public health organizations' environments, structures, and strategies.
Management researchers lament the fact that their work has so little impact on management practic... more Management researchers lament the fact that their work has so little impact on management practice. Practicing managers, so it is claimed, search for knowledge that will help them improve organizational performance but rarely consult the work of university-based researchers--work that they often find incomprehensible and irrelevant to their day-to-day challenges. Researchers assert that rather than being interested in systematic and long-term solutions, managers are generally infatuated with the latest fads and fashions in their ...
Social network analysis is an important research tradition in structural sociology and has contri... more Social network analysis is an important research tradition in structural sociology and has contributed much to our understanding of inter and intra organizational relations. Of particular significance is the contribution of social network analysis to the definition of community. Communities, whether traditional or scientific, can be effectively thought of as a series of positions and roles. This paper proposes four hypotheses about a select group of management scholars (laureates) and the network ties that connect them. Laureates were ...
People who have lived through a natural disaster know and appreciate better the importance of pre... more People who have lived through a natural disaster know and appreciate better the importance of preparedness than those who have not. This poster compares the levels of preparedness of people in the state of Mississippi as divided along a geographical line running west to east approximately through the city of Hattiesburg. Individuals living south of this line are more likely to have personally experienced damaging effects from Hurricane Katrina. Those who live north of this line are less likely to have personally experienced damaging effects. We hypothesized that those who personally experienced the effects of the hurricane will be more prepared to deal with the threat of pandemic influenza than those who did not. We also hypothesized that within a community, those who personally experienced Hurricane Katrina will be more likely to react with concern over a geographically close case of person-to-person transfer of pandemic influenza than those who did not. This poster will demonstrat...
The history of management thought provides justifiable reasons for pride in our ability to manage... more The history of management thought provides justifiable reasons for pride in our ability to manage complex public and private organizations. Indeed, one can confidently argue that public health organizations are perhaps better managed today than at any time in our history. Yet, the appearance of helpless crowds around the Superdome and massive traffic jams leaving New Orleans and Houston in anticipation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the chaos after the London subway bombing, and other crises challenged our contentment with our ability to manage complex emergencies. What happened we asked ourselves? Was our planning flawed? Did our leaders fail us? Was the crisis simply too complex to manage? The conventional wisdom of management seems better suited for stable and predictable environments. The purpose of this paper is to realistically access the limitations of conventional management theory and practice in dealing with problems of emergency preparedness and response. There are five ...
This paper reports the conclusions drawn from more than 150 hours of facilitated discussions by p... more This paper reports the conclusions drawn from more than 150 hours of facilitated discussions by participants in 36 school closing tabletop exercises (12 in Alabama and 24 in Mississippi) between January, 2007 and April 2008. Participants included school administrators, classroom teachers and counselors, school nurses, child care specialists, public health professionals, government leaders, and first responders. All exercises included a didactic component offering information on seasonal, avian, and pandemic influenza (including proposed pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical countermeasures); a series of three audio-video vignettes describing a pre-pandemic setting, a pandemic onset, and finally a mid-point in the first wave of a pandemic. Each scenario was followed by facilitated group discussion with a summary by the facilitator. All scenarios were designed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as part of the Pandemic Influenza Guidance Supplement to the 2006 Publ...
Agency theory remains the dominant means of examining governance issues and ownership characteris... more Agency theory remains the dominant means of examining governance issues and ownership characteristics related to large organizations. Research in these areas within large organizations has increased our understanding, yet little is known about the influence that these mechanisms and characteristics have had on IPO firm performance. This study tests an agency perspective that venture capital involvement, governance and equity characteristics affect health care and biotechnology IPO firm performance. Our results indicate that there is no correlation between these factors and health care and biotechnology IPO wealth creation. For these entrepreneurs, our findings suggest a contingent approach for the use of these mechanisms.
Objectives. The purpose of this article was to investigate the relationship between state health ... more Objectives. The purpose of this article was to investigate the relationship between state health agencies' adherence to the recommendations of the United State's Institute of Medicine's (IOM) report,'The Future of Public Health', and changes in their populations' health. Study design. Data were abstracted from agencies' plans, budgets, annual reports, etc. spanning a 5-year period. A comprehensive change in population health measure over the same period was drawn from the UnitedHealth Group's annual survey.
The management field is characterized by two countervailing perspectives that attempt to define w... more The management field is characterized by two countervailing perspectives that attempt to define what constitutes appropriate research valued by scholars and practitioners. Historically the field has moved from an emphasis on one or the other - from applied research and practice to basic research and theory and then back again. It is our contention that a shift toward emphasizing a basic research focus has occurred at the expense of applied research, but that as efforts to increase the emphasis on applied research increase, there may be a danger of moving too far in that direction. We summarize the tension between these and highlight potential pitfalls if either is carried too far. We suggest that these tensions result from competing markets and conclude with suggestions for encouraging diversity among research foci, concentrating on rigor rather than the particular focus of research activity, and making institutional changes to foster both forms of research.
Leaders in public organizations are adopting many private sector management practices to control ... more Leaders in public organizations are adopting many private sector management practices to control costs and increase efficiency. Nowhere is this more evident than among state health agencies. State health agencies were encouraged to change the way they operate by the 1988 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report on The Future of Public Health. This report portrayed public health as being in disarray. To address major deficiencies identified by the IOM study, some public health leaders have reevaluated their environments, reconfigured their organizations, and adopted a strategic mindset. The purpose of this research is to explore the various organizational configurations of state health agencies. Replicating methods used in studies of private sector organizations, five distinct strategic configurations or archetypes were identified. This comprehensive public health agency taxonomy will assist future researchers in analyzing public health organizations' environments, structures, and strategies.
Management researchers lament the fact that their work has so little impact on management practic... more Management researchers lament the fact that their work has so little impact on management practice. Practicing managers, so it is claimed, search for knowledge that will help them improve organizational performance but rarely consult the work of university-based researchers--work that they often find incomprehensible and irrelevant to their day-to-day challenges. Researchers assert that rather than being interested in systematic and long-term solutions, managers are generally infatuated with the latest fads and fashions in their ...
Social network analysis is an important research tradition in structural sociology and has contri... more Social network analysis is an important research tradition in structural sociology and has contributed much to our understanding of inter and intra organizational relations. Of particular significance is the contribution of social network analysis to the definition of community. Communities, whether traditional or scientific, can be effectively thought of as a series of positions and roles. This paper proposes four hypotheses about a select group of management scholars (laureates) and the network ties that connect them. Laureates were ...
People who have lived through a natural disaster know and appreciate better the importance of pre... more People who have lived through a natural disaster know and appreciate better the importance of preparedness than those who have not. This poster compares the levels of preparedness of people in the state of Mississippi as divided along a geographical line running west to east approximately through the city of Hattiesburg. Individuals living south of this line are more likely to have personally experienced damaging effects from Hurricane Katrina. Those who live north of this line are less likely to have personally experienced damaging effects. We hypothesized that those who personally experienced the effects of the hurricane will be more prepared to deal with the threat of pandemic influenza than those who did not. We also hypothesized that within a community, those who personally experienced Hurricane Katrina will be more likely to react with concern over a geographically close case of person-to-person transfer of pandemic influenza than those who did not. This poster will demonstrat...
The history of management thought provides justifiable reasons for pride in our ability to manage... more The history of management thought provides justifiable reasons for pride in our ability to manage complex public and private organizations. Indeed, one can confidently argue that public health organizations are perhaps better managed today than at any time in our history. Yet, the appearance of helpless crowds around the Superdome and massive traffic jams leaving New Orleans and Houston in anticipation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the chaos after the London subway bombing, and other crises challenged our contentment with our ability to manage complex emergencies. What happened we asked ourselves? Was our planning flawed? Did our leaders fail us? Was the crisis simply too complex to manage? The conventional wisdom of management seems better suited for stable and predictable environments. The purpose of this paper is to realistically access the limitations of conventional management theory and practice in dealing with problems of emergency preparedness and response. There are five ...
This paper reports the conclusions drawn from more than 150 hours of facilitated discussions by p... more This paper reports the conclusions drawn from more than 150 hours of facilitated discussions by participants in 36 school closing tabletop exercises (12 in Alabama and 24 in Mississippi) between January, 2007 and April 2008. Participants included school administrators, classroom teachers and counselors, school nurses, child care specialists, public health professionals, government leaders, and first responders. All exercises included a didactic component offering information on seasonal, avian, and pandemic influenza (including proposed pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical countermeasures); a series of three audio-video vignettes describing a pre-pandemic setting, a pandemic onset, and finally a mid-point in the first wave of a pandemic. Each scenario was followed by facilitated group discussion with a summary by the facilitator. All scenarios were designed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as part of the Pandemic Influenza Guidance Supplement to the 2006 Publ...
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