Charles McMillan
York University, Schulich School of Business, Department Member
Hospital average length of stay varies considerably between countries. However, there is limited patient-level research identifying or discounting possible reasons for these differences. This study compares the length of stay of patients... more
Hospital average length of stay varies considerably between countries. However, there is limited patient-level research identifying or discounting possible reasons for these differences. This study compares the length of stay of patients in Japan, where it is the longest in the OECD, and Canada, where length of stay is closer to the OECD mean. Administrative patient-level data, including age, gender, co-morbidities, intervention, discharge plan, outcome and length of stay were collected from two Japanese and two Ontario, Canada hospitals for two diagnoses: colorectal cancer surgery and acute myocardial infarction. Analyses examined linkages between patient characteristics, hospitals and countries and length of stay. When controlling for patient demographic characteristics, the incidence of co-morbidities and discharge plan practices, Japanese length of stay tended to be significantly longer than that in Canada for both diagnoses. Mortality rates were not significantly different; however, the readmission rate (28 days or less) for acute myocardial infarction was higher in the Canadian hospitals. The findings indicate that non-clinical factors contribute to sustained international differences in length of stay. These factors may include professional or cultural norms, differing payment schemes and access to long-term care facilities. The study also introduces a protocol that can be used for international patient-level comparisons that can enable effective policy and management learning.
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By geography, population, and public policy, Canada is a Pacific Rim country. Despite grandiose plans and rhetoric, however, Canada's economy is in retreat, dominated by the southern direction of investment and trade ties with the... more
By geography, population, and public policy, Canada is a Pacific Rim country. Despite grandiose plans and rhetoric, however, Canada's economy is in retreat, dominated by the southern direction of investment and trade ties with the United States and reinforced by the huge levels of foreign investment that are increasingly ration alized along North American triad lines. The western Canadian provinces
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This study tested the effect of two federal funds rate increase and two federal funds rate decrease announcements on stock price performance. Using standard risk adjusted event study methodology with the market model, the study analyzed... more
This study tested the effect of two federal funds rate increase and two federal funds rate decrease announcements on stock price performance. Using standard risk adjusted event study methodology with the market model, the study analyzed 22,444 recent observations for the four event study periods from the thirty DOW firms with total market capitalization of three and one-half trillion dollars
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This article reports on the failure of a university-based educational change project which sought to change one junior high school in BedfordStuyvesant... more
This article reports on the failure of a university-based educational change project which sought to change one junior high school in BedfordStuyvesant "into a school of unusual merit in the education of disadvantaged children." In their efforts at improving teaching-learning from 1966-68, the New York University Clinic for Learning planners relied on two generally accepted theories of planned organizational change:
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Purpose – This paper sets out a model of organizational innovation, where leadership and innovation are defined as organizational processes embedded in decision streams in the organization. Design/methodology/approach – The paper reviews... more
Purpose – This paper sets out a model of organizational innovation, where leadership and innovation are defined as organizational processes embedded in decision streams in the organization. Design/methodology/approach – The paper reviews the organizational literature on successful and unsuccessful decision processes, placing less on individuals and more on embedded organizational systems that impede quality outcomes. Findings – The paper defines
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Page 1. THE CULTURAL CONTEXT OF ORGANIZATIONAL CONTROL: AN INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON Dezsö Horváth (Sweden), Charles J. McMillan (Canada), Koya Azumi (USA), and David J. Hickson (United Kingdom) ... The Cultural Context of Organizational... more
Page 1. THE CULTURAL CONTEXT OF ORGANIZATIONAL CONTROL: AN INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON Dezsö Horváth (Sweden), Charles J. McMillan (Canada), Koya Azumi (USA), and David J. Hickson (United Kingdom) ... The Cultural Context of Organizational Control 61 ...
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Business Schools face an environment with unprecedented global growth and radical innovations. Today, global business leaders come from multiple backgrounds, represented by well-traveled engineers, scientists, artists, and even musicians.... more
Business Schools face an environment with unprecedented global growth and radical innovations. Today, global business leaders come from multiple backgrounds, represented by well-traveled engineers, scientists, artists, and even musicians. Outside the Top-20 well-funded business schools, mostly located in America, capitalizing on a brand of a long history, mostly affiliated with leading universities, with cross appointments in areas like history, economics, psychology, and sociology, other business schools produce research in journals that management never reads, on issues that border on the metaphysical, and now face rising irrelevance because of brand dilution and talent challenges from fast growth and radical innovations. By proposing a few suggestions for business education and research, this paper calls for more proactive interactions with prominent business corporations to encourage their direct participation in the process of business education and research.
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... Abstract The first data collected by Aston Programme methods in Eastern Europe are reported from Poland. In a sample of factories matched for size, product, and unit status with equivalents in Britain, Japan, and Sweden, striking... more
... Abstract The first data collected by Aston Programme methods in Eastern Europe are reported from Poland. In a sample of factories matched for size, product, and unit status with equivalents in Britain, Japan, and Sweden, striking results are obtained. ...
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... (28) have been con-firmed by Hinings and Lee (15), by Inkson et al. (17) and Hickson etal. (14). ... Evan's (8) results on American organizations suggest caution in the cross-societal use of perceptual-type questionnaire... more
... (28) have been con-firmed by Hinings and Lee (15), by Inkson et al. (17) and Hickson etal. (14). ... Evan's (8) results on American organizations suggest caution in the cross-societal use of perceptual-type questionnaire responses on organizational variables. ...
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As a field of study, organization strategy faces growing fragmentation, abstract theorizing, and lack of integration within academic disciplines. This paper offers an integrated framework for corporate strategy based on strategic capacity... more
As a field of study, organization strategy faces growing fragmentation, abstract theorizing, and lack of integration within academic disciplines. This paper offers an integrated framework for corporate strategy based on strategic capacity of the organization, flowing from asset endowments-tangible and intangible – which both define and constrain strategic choices. Asset positioning strategies flow from judicious appreciation of alignment of strategic goals, capabilities that flow from asset organizational endowments, and opportunities that frame organizational plans based on real costs and revenue potential. While the strategic capacities to exploit and monetize asset value are enhanced when organizational capabilities and competences activities are aligned, internal dysfunctions and executive myopias may activate decision inertia and explain why organizations slowly lesson and then lose their competitive advantage. However, given the enormous competitive and technological changes globally, and new disruptions from an Internet and digital world, it is vital to align assets, capabilities, and tools of execution for term term competitive advantage.
Reviews impact of Naylor Report for science ecosystem and private sector startups in Canada.
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—This study analyzes the impacts of price incentives, costs and management awareness on maize supply in the North Central and the South regions of the United States. Diverting from previous studies, we convert Cobb-Douglas production... more
—This study analyzes the impacts of price incentives, costs and management awareness on maize supply in the North Central and the South regions of the United States. Diverting from previous studies, we convert Cobb-Douglas production functions to supply functions in the profit maximizing condition for two regions and use prices and costs to represent the incentives and management indices of farmers in our models. We examine the effects of prices and costs on the decision-making processes of farmers and the corresponding maize supply, where the models simultaneously consider climate and technology improvement elements in addition to price and cost elements. Given the background that climatic and socioeconomic conditions are different in the two regions, analyzing and understanding the regional impact divergence could have significant implications to the United States and the world in the context of securing the stability of the market price and food supply of the crop, as well as adapting to the progress of climate change. We found the South region in the short-term is more responsive to changes in maize prices than the North region, opposite from the results examined in the medium-term scenario and the long-term scenario, reflecting the differences in regional management awareness. While the changes in labor costs and machinery costs in the North region have larger impacts in all scenarios, changes in chemical fertilizer costs have larger impacts in the South region in all scenarios. All in all, further research should be conducted to ensure the stability of the long-term food security. Index Terms—price incentives, costs, management awareness, profit maximizing condition, stability of the market price and food supply, food security.
Abstract: In his path-breaking opus, Administrative Behavior, Herbert A. Simon introduced to management and organization theorists the concept of docility. Curiously, the term is not used subsequently in many of his leading and widely... more
Abstract: In his path-breaking opus, Administrative Behavior, Herbert A. Simon introduced to management and organization theorists the concept of docility. Curiously, the term is not used subsequently in many of his leading and widely circulated papers, or in his book, co-authored with James March, Organizations. Many years later, returning to his early interest in neo-Darwinism, Simon revives this core concept and links docility to theories of altruism. This paper addresses this lacuna in the organizational literature, and the implications for current theories of organizations and organizational learning.
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