Innovation sustainability in challenging health-care contexts : embedding clinically led change in routine practice

The need for organizational innovation as a means of improving health-care quality and containing costs is widely recognized, but while a growing body of research has improved knowledge of implementation, very little has considered the challenges involved in sustaining change – especially organizational change led ‘bottom-up’ by frontline clinicians. This study addresses this lacuna, taking a longitudinal, qualitative case-study approach to understanding the paths to sustainability of four organizational innovations. It highlights the importance of the interaction between organizational context, nature of the innovation and strategies deployed in achieving sustainability. It discusses how positional influence of service leads, complexity of innovation, networks of support, embedding in existing systems, and proactive responses to changing circumstances can interact to sustain change. In the absence of cast-iron evidence of effectiveness, wider notions of value may be successfully invoked to sustain innovation. Sustainability requires continuing effort through time, rather than representing a final state to be achieved. Our study offers new insights into the process of sustainability of organizational change, and elucidates the complement of strategies needed to make bottom-up change last in challenging contexts replete with competing priorities

Press Conference of Robert Hartmann, Counsellor to the President

Transcript of press conference with Robert Hartmann, Counselor to the President. Hartmann discussed President Gerald Ford\u27s appointment of Nelson Rockefeller as Vice President.https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/twentyfifth_amendment_watergate_era/1002/thumbnail.jp

Remarks of the President Upon His Announcing Nelson Rockefeller as Vice President-Designate

Press release announcing the nomination of Nelson Rockefeller (R-NY) as vice president.https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/twentyfifth_amendment_watergate_era/1000/thumbnail.jp

Remarks by Gerald R. Ford Being Sworn in as the 38th President of the United States

Press release of President Gerald R. Ford\u27s remarks after being sworn into office.https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/twentyfifth_amendment_watergate_era/1001/thumbnail.jp

Outline of Statutes and Regulations Affecting the Workplace

Report submitted to the Commission on the Future of Worker-Management Relations.Report_DOL_062193.pdf: 1615 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

Tight Approximation Ratio of Anonymous Pricing

We consider two canonical Bayesian mechanism design settings. In the single-item setting, we prove tight approximation ratio for anonymous pricing: compared with Myerson Auction, it extracts at least $\frac{1}{2.62}$-fraction of revenue; there is a matching lower-bound example. In the unit-demand single-buyer setting, we prove tight approximation ratio between the simplest and optimal deterministic mechanisms: in terms of revenue, uniform pricing admits a $2.62$-approximation of item pricing; we further validate the tightness of this ratio. These results settle two open problems asked in~\cite{H13,CD15,AHNPY15,L17,JLTX18}. As an implication, in the single-item setting: we improve the approximation ratio of the second-price auction with anonymous reserve to $2.62$, which breaks the state-of-the-art upper bound of $e \approx 2.72$

Remarks of the President Announcing His Nominee for Vice President

Remarks of President Richard Nixon announcing Representative Gerald R. Ford as his nominee for Vice President of the United States. Nixon made the nomination following Vice President Spiro Agnew’s resignation two days earlier. The nomination occurred pursuant to Section 2 of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment.https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/twentyfifth_amendment_watergate_era/1008/thumbnail.jp

Portrayals of Child Abuse Scandals in the Media in Australia and England: Impacts on Practice, Policy, and Systems

This article describes how the media have played a key role in placing the issue of child maltreatment and the problems associated with child protection high on public and political agendas over the last 50 years. It also describes how the influence of the media is far from unambiguous. Although the media has been crucial in bringing the problems into the open, it often does so in particular ways. In being so concerned with scandals and tragedies ∗ Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Bob Lonne, School of Public Health and Social Work, Queensland University of Technology, Victoria Park Road, Kelvin Grove, Queensland 4059, Australia. Electronic mail may be sent to [email protected]. in a variety of institutionalized and community settings, the media have portrayed the nature of child maltreatment in ways which deflect attention from many of its core characteristics and causes. A focus on the media is important because of the power the media have to help transform the private into the public, but at the same time, to undermine trust, reputation, and legitimacy of the professionals working in the field. This concern is key for those working in the child protection field and has been a source of tension in public policy in both Australia and England for many years

Meeting Agendas

Collection of meeting agendas for the U.S. Secretary of Labor\u27s Task Force on Excellence in State and Local Government Through Labor-Management Cooperation (1994-1996)