These quality management standards are often institutionalized, which means firms only adopt certain quality management standards ceremoniously without any substantial function and practice.
Confounding factors such as age, gender, function and practice were also considered; according to the hospitals, preterm children can be cared in departments of neonatal intensive care units where neonatologists work, and in mixed paediatric and neonatal intensive care departments (newborns and older children) where intensive care physicians work.
It's not only the corporate world that values the MBA, designed to widen the horizons of business professionals, covering major functions and practices of business.
Their duties, however, were generally those of members of a household engaged in everyday affairs, rather than of a caste or sacerdotal order set apart and consecrated for the performance of sacrificial and other rites, functions, and practices.
Features of local areas may influence health and collective social functioning and practices [14].
In the NAM paper we attempted to connect the dots between leadership's commitment to implementing the structures, functions and practices that support active involvement of patients with better health outcomes.
In a nutshell, the Pragmatic View argues that scientific theory structure is deeply shaped and constrained by functions and practices, and that theory can be interpreted and applied validly according to many different criteria.
First, to go beyond the simplistic and often overrated dichotomy between autocracy and democracy in immigration policy analysis and, instead, adopt an approach focused on the structure, functioning and practices of a country's political system.
Rather than focusing on binary regime types, this paper looks at the structure, functioning and practices of a country's political system and asks: How do political systems shape immigration policy-making?
By looking at the structure, functioning and practices of Morocco's and Tunisia's political systems for the subsequent analysis of their immigration regimes, I hope to overcome some of the limitations of earlier, regime-focused analyses.
