Firm Resources and Sustained Competitive Advantage

Few discussions in modern social science have occupied as much attention as the changing nature of welfare states in Western societies. Gosta Esping-Andersen, one of the foremost contributors to current debates on this issue, here provides a new analysis of the character and role of welfare states in the functioning of contemporary advanced Western societies. Esping-Andersen distinguishes three major types of welfare state, connecting these with variations in the historical development of different Western countries. He argues that current economic processes, such as those moving toward a postindustrial order, are shaped not by autonomous market forces but by the nature of states and state differences. Fully informed by comparative materials, this book will have great appeal to all those working on issues of economic development and postindustrialism. Its audience will include students of sociology, economics, and politics."

The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism

The authors investigate the conceptualization and measurement of service quality and the relationships between service quality, consumer satisfaction, and purchase intentions. A literature review s...

Measuring service quality: a reexamination and extension

The conditions associated with the existence and stability of democratic society have been a leading concern of political philosophy. In this paper the problem is attacked from a sociological and behavioral standpoint, by presenting a number of hypotheses concerning some social requisites for democracy, and by discussing some of the data available to test these hypotheses. In its concern with conditions—values, social institutions, historical events—external to the political system itself which sustain different general types of political systems, the paper moves outside the generally recognized province of political sociology. This growing field has dealt largely with the internal analysis of organizations with political goals, or with the determinants of action within various political institutions, such as parties, government agencies, or the electoral process. It has in the main left to the political philosopher the larger concern with the relations of the total political system to society as a whole.

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Some Social Requisites of Democracy: Economic Development and Political Legitimacy

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Technological paradigms and technological trajectories: A suggested interpretation of the determinants and directions of technical change

Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy.

Occupational choice: an approach to a general theory.

Occupational Choice, an Approach to a General Theory.

The conventional population paradigm in the United States has distinguished between the white majority and the sizable and easily identified black minority. Until recently, much less attention has been paid to Hispanics (or Latinos), currently 20 million in number, who the Census Bureau projects will increase to 31 million persons of a total population of 283 million by the year 2010. In the next two decades Hispanics will account for one of every three net additions to the US population. The analysis that follows considers the critical factors that collectively will determine the access of Hispanics to the health care system and illuminates the changes that, if introduced, will contribute to its improvement. These issues include the homogeneity or heterogeneity of the Hispanic population; the extent to which socioeconomic status adversely affects Hispanics' access to health care; the influence of demographic and epidemiological factors on their needs for care; the role of neighborhood factors in determining their access to the health and medical infrastructures; the paucity of Hispanic health professionals; and finally, the major reform proposals currently on the nation's health agenda as they relate to the issue of improved access to care for Hispanics. ( JAMA . 1991;265:238-241)

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Access to health care for Hispanics.

HE UNITED STATES IS IN THE MIDST OF A SERIOUS MAjor shortage of registered nurses (RNs) This shortage will culminate in the largest deficit of hospital nurses at a time when the demand for their services will be the greatest, ie, after 2010 Nursing shortages have been a relatively common phenomenon in the United States, occurring on a periodic basis—in the late 1950s, early 1970s, late 1980s, and reemerging at the beginning of this decade In prior years the solution to the crisis was higher wages, better benefits (including changes in scheduling), and overseas recruitment However, this nursing shortage is different and the emerging challenge will be much greater This article describes the quantitative dimensions of the emerging nursing shortage and discusses policy solutions currently advanced for dealing with the problem This contribution is not intended to provide new data or analysis, but rather is meant to draw new conclusions from the existing data and deepen the analysis The Current Nursing Shortage It has become commonplace to note that hospital-based nurses “love” their work and “hate” their jobs This seems to be true for England, Canada, and other countries as well as the United States, as Aiken and colleagues 1 have recently reported To the extent that this sentiment accurately reflects the dominant view of hospital nursing issues, it seems to indicate that structural features of clinical nursing are serious barriers to job satisfaction Therefore, attempts to deal with the current nursing shortage simply by increasing the supply of nurses is not likely to be successful In past nursing shortages, the nub of the problem seemed to be a mismatch between the demands of the market and the difficulties that hospitals encountered in raising wage levels and the willingness of nurse graduates to work for those wages Today’s problem is more complex because it is really 3 separate, but ultimately related, problems that must be addressed: a declining number of new nurses entering the workforce; attracting new nurses to stay in hospitals; and nurses retiring or leaving the workforce early The combination of these factors forms the basis of the emerging nurs

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Eli Ginzberg

Papers

Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy.

Occupational choice: an approach to a general theory.

Occupational Choice, an Approach to a General Theory.

Access to health care for Hispanics.

Why this hospital nursing shortage is different.