Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of informal Korean social networks ( Yongo ) on sales activities in Korea, by focussing in particular on required vertical core competencies. Design/methodology/approach The authors draw on expert interview data gathered in Korea...

Ultimately, the results reported here could help to develop a predictive model that can be utilized to forecast a country’s ASHI. Such a predictive model could be used by politicians to gauge the popularity of a healthcare plan that is under consideration in a particular country. </AbstractSection> Copyright...

In order to understand the health care system a country chooses to adopt or the health care reform a country decides to undertake, one must first be able to measure a country’s attitude toward social health insurance. Our primary goal was to develop a construct that allows us to measure this...