Showing papers on "Corporate group published in 1988"
TL;DR: Physicians today are concerned that changes in the organization of medical care may greatly reduce their control of the practice of medicine, and evidence of the effects of three of these changes--the rapid corporatization of practice, the increased use of medical technology, and the use of information technology in clinical decision making--suggests that doctors are losing much of their autonomy.
Abstract: The conditions of assumptions about medical work are now being questioned, reexamined, and transformed, but without the benefit of empirical studies. The new conditions are changes in the organization of practice; the new assumptions hold that organization determines physician behavior and the quality of care that once was promised by properly educated physicians alone. Large numbers of medical practitioners—now approaching 60 percent—have moved into group practices of various forms, as corporate group organization becomes the major mode of medical work. Technology is a second powerful influence on modern medical work. The care of the individual has become a more divided task and, under the best of circumstances, a collective collaboration, as has the doctor-patient relationship as well. The doctor's job can be viewed as a large and varied number of decisions that are discretionary, based on the physician's individual judgment.
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TL;DR: In this paper, an equilibrium model for corporate finance under conditions of shareholder taxation is presented, and the implications for mergers and acquisitions are discussed, where corporations will make acquisitions during the same periods that they pay large net dividends.
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