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Determinants of contract terms for professional services

Management Accounting Research, 2009
Abstract This study provides evidence on the determinants of contract terms between professional services firms and their clients. Because professional services are typically characterized by a high degree of transactional uncertainty and a double moral hazard risk, contracts can be essential for the creation of incentives to control the behavior of ...
Carsten Homburg, Peter Stebel
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Index of Terms and Professional Organizations

2006
Trevor Cox, Chanelle Paul, André Grelon   +2 more
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Professionalism in long-term care settings

Journal of Communication Disorders, 2006
Speech-language pathologists who serve elders in a variety of long-term care settings have a variety of professional skills and responsibilities. Fundamental to quality service is knowledge of aging and communication changes and disorders associated with this process, institutional alternatives, and the changing nature of today's elders in long-term ...
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MARINE TERMS AND PROFESSIONALISMS IN POETIC TEXT

Cherepovets State University Bulletin, 2021
The purpose of the study is to provide linguistic analysis of marine vocabulary in the poetic text of northern writers. The relevance of this article is due to insufficient knowledge of the marine vocabulary functioning in the northern text of Russian literature.
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Discussing Terms: Professions, Professionals, Professionalism

Prospects, 1985
“Who's a Professional? Who Cares?” asked a prominent historian nearly a decade ago. In the essay that followed the answer was shrewdly crafted. Because so many Americans have cared to call their occupational activity professional, few have succeeded in bringing to the concept a consistent and coherent interpretation.
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Professional caring: a contradiction in terms?

Journal of Advanced Nursing, 1997
The caring activities which are traditionally associated with the nursing and midwifery professions comprise two essential and inseparable elements: the instrumental and expressive. Yet the former appears to be attracting an emphasis which threatens the integrity of the whole.
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Professionalism is a generic term: Practicing what we preach

Medical Teacher, 2010
The article by van Luijk and his associates in this issue (van Luijk et al. 2010) documents an admirable effort by those responsible for the education of future members of the professions of medicine, dentistry, and veterinary science to recognize the conceptual unity of professionalism and to identify the common elements of professionalism which they ...
Richard L, Cruess, Sylvia R, Cruess
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Judaism, Professional Intervention, and Ethics in Long-Term Care

Journal of Pastoral Care, 2000
Discusses spiritual, professional, and ethical approaches to work with an elderly Jewish patient in a nursing home. Addresses the knotty issues of determining decision-making capacity, the refusal of nutrition and hydration, Judaic values pertaining to ending one's life, the role of the spiritual caregiver, the role of the social worker, and the ...
N, Linzer, J, Samuel, J, Sable
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