According to W. Edwards Deming, American companies require nothing less than a transformation of management style and of governmental relations with industry. In Out of the Crisis, originally published in 1982, Deming offers a theory of management based on his famous 14 Points for Management. Management's failure to plan for the future, he claims, brings about loss of market, which brings about loss of jobs. Management must be judged not only by the quarterly dividend, but by innovative plans to stay in business, protect investment, ensure future dividends, and provide more jobs through improved product and service. In simple, direct language, he explains the principles of management transformation and how to apply them.

Out of the Crisis

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The Theory of Industrial Organization

Resource-based theories of competitive advantage: A ten-year retrospective on the resource-based view

Typologies are an important way of organizing the complex cause-effect relationships that are key building blocks of the strategy and organization literatures. Here, I develop a novel theoretical perspective on causal core and periphery, which is based on how elements of a configuration are connected to outcomes. Using data on hightechnology firms, I empirically investigate configurations based on the Miles and Snow typology using fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA). My findings show how the theoretical perspective developed here allows for a detailed analysis of causal core, periphery, and asymmetry, shifting the focus to midrange theories of causal processes.

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Building Better Causal Theories: A Fuzzy Set Approach to Typologies in Organization Research

Mixed methods research offers powerful tools for investigating complex processes and systems in health and health care. This article describes integration principles and practices at three levels in mixed methods research and provides illustrative examples. Integration at the study design level occurs through three basic mixed method designs—exploratory sequential, explanatory sequential, and convergent—and through four advanced frameworks—multistage, intervention, case study, and participatory. Integration at the methods level occurs through four approaches. In connecting, one database links to the other through sampling. With building, one database informs the data collection approach of the other. When merging, the two databases are brought together for analysis. With embedding, data collection and analysis link at multiple points. Integration at the interpretation and reporting level occurs through narrative, data transformation, and joint display. The fit of integration describes the extent the qualitative and quantitative findings cohere. Understanding these principles and practices of integration can help health services researchers leverage the strengths of mixed methods.

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Achieving Integration in Mixed Methods Designs—Principles and Practices

There is much debate on how recent increases in medical malpractice premiums affect patients’ access to care. We examined activity levels of neurosurgeons and obstetricians, as well as the incidence of high-risk surgery and patients’ travel times in Florida, where malpractice insurance premiums have soared since 2000. Compared with 1997–2000, we found that during 2000–2003, many neurosurgeons cut back their volume of brain surgeries and that craniotomy patients traveled longer for care without any significant change in the overall incidence of craniotomies. Women undergoing high-risk deliveries did not see increases in travel times.

Effects Of The Malpractice Crisis On Access To And Incidence Of High-Risk Procedures: Evidence From Florida

Millions of Americans lack health insurance, including 4.2 million people over 55.2 If illness strikes, many of these individuals may have to tap into accumulated assets that they intended for another purpose, such as retirement. However, there is little hard evidence on just how many are affected and how much they lose. A well-cited study by Himmelstein et al. (2005) suggests that half of all bankruptcies can be described as “medical bankruptcies,” and it claims that private health insurance does not protect against financial ruin. Many researchers, including an author of this paper, suggested that the research methods in Himmelstein and colleagues were problematic and fundamental questions about the financial impact of illness remain unanswered (Dranove and Millenson 2006).

This study carefully documents how illness affects the financial well-being of the uninsured near-elderly (age 51–64). This age group is likely to have significant assets and fewer opportunities to rebuild if they lose those assets due to illness. A drop in assets for this age group could result in delayed retirement or a lower standard of living following retirement.

We use panel data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to examine what happens to the financial assets of near elderly, uninsured Americans who experience one of six major illnesses including cancer and stroke. We focus on new illnesses, so that we can observe the change in assets immediately following the onset of illness. We compare this group of newly ill/uninsured households with a set of households matched for health status, baseline wealth, and other demographic and health characteristics. We use difference-in–difference (DD) and triple difference (3D) regressions with covariates that control broadly for other determinants of changes in asset accumulation. While matched households with insurance coverage experience no significant loss in assets, uninsured near-elderly Americans who experience a new major illness lose between one-third and one-half of their accumulated assets.

Does major illness cause financial catastrophe

Do state rate setting regulations really lower hospital expenses

In this paper, we empirically measure the effect of the DIVX preannouncement in the DVD market. We do this by measuring the effect of potential (incompatible) competition on a network undergoing growth. We find that there are network effects in the DVD market and that the preannouncement of DIVX slowed down the adoption of DVD technology. This suggests that strategic preannouncements can indeed affect the outcome of a standards competition.

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The DVD vs. DIVX Standard War: Empirical Evidence of Vaporware

The growing concentration of physician markets throughout the United States has been raising antitrust concerns, yet the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission have challenged only ...

David Dranove

Papers

Effects Of The Malpractice Crisis On Access To And Incidence Of High-Risk Procedures: Evidence From Florida

Does major illness cause financial catastrophe

Do state rate setting regulations really lower hospital expenses

The DVD vs. DIVX Standard War: Empirical Evidence of Vaporware

Physician practice consolidation driven by small acquisitions, so antitrust agencies have few tools to intervene