City University London

About: City University London is a education organization based out in London, United Kingdom. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Context (language use). The organization has 5735 authors who have published 17285 publications receiving 453290 citations.

Learning for clinical leadership

Abstract: Clinical leadership has been acclaimed widely as a major factor influencing the quality of patient care but research has revealed a paucity of preparation for this significant role. Leadership literature has rarely addressed clinical leadership specifically or referred to the difficulties in characterizing effective clinical leaders. The research informing this paper focused on clinical leadership and identified five attributes of effective clinical leaders: creativity, highlighting, influencing, respecting, and supporting. Effective clinical leaders adopted a transformational leadership style and improved care, through others, by including transformational (soft) knowledge as an integral part of their effective practice repertoire. Phronesis is introduced as practical wisdom that is gained through immersion in relevant experience, and as an essential element of preparation for clinical nursing leadership practice. It is argued, that learning to transform care requires opportunities to work within an environment that engenders and supports aspiring leaders. The paper describes the research process, elucidates the attributes through illustrative examples from the research data, and discusses an emergent educational strategy for the development of these attributes by clinicians in their practice environments. The paper also describes the application of this research through an interdisciplinary programme for staff leading teams in both health and social services sectors.

The Effects of Information Disclosure and Board Independence on IPO Discount

Abstract: This paper examines the effect of strategic information disclosure and corporate governance on the stock market performance of initial public offering (IPO) firms in France. It argues that informat...

The Chemistry of Excited Complexes: a Survey of Reactions

Abstract: Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on the chemistry of excited complexes. The term exciplex (excited complex) is used to describe an electronically excited molecular complex of definite stoichiometry. Complexes falling into this broad classification include excimers (excited dimers) (electronically excited complexes formed between identical atoms or molecules), heteroexcimers (electronically excited complexes formed between two non identical atoms or molecules), and excited charge-transfer complexes (complexes produced by excitation of ground state molecular complexes for which there is conclusive evidence for association in the ground state). The formation of intermolecular complexes in fluid solution requires that after excitation of one of the partners, collision with the other partner must occur within the lifetime of the excited state. The maximum rate constant for the process is determined by the rate constant for diffusion control in the solvent employed.

Releasing Constraints to Growth or Pushing on a String? Policies and Performance of Mexican Micro-Firms

Abstract: Using firm-level data from Mexico, this paper investigates the firm characteristics associated with participation in credit markets, access to training, tax payments and membership in business associations. We find that firms which participate in these institutions exhibit significantly higher profits. Moreover, firms that borrow from formal or informal sources and those that pay taxes are significantly more likely to stay in business but firms that received credit exhibit lower rates of income growth. These results persist when firm characteristics that are arguably correlated with unobserved entrepreneurial ability are controlled for. Our findings suggest that the significant within-country differences in firm productivity observed in developing economies are due in part to market and government failures that limit the ability of micro-firms to reach their optimal sizes.