The purpose of this article is to analyse the repertoire of possible price models that organisations may deploy for their products and services. This is attained by developing the SBIFT model that suggests that organisations can differentiate by price along five dimensions. Previous research on pricing has been dispersed across different academic disciplines. This article offers a more integrated perspective, derived from earlier theory as well as discussions in a collaborative research project with the international telecom company Ericsson. The model can be used as a tool for price modelling in a descriptive and prescriptive sense. Altogether, this article uncovers implicit features of price models, and by doing so it illustrates how an organisation can differentiate and re-invent their offering based on price.

The use of information and communication technology (ICT) to support integrated healthcare services in elderly homecare is becoming a self-evident part of home healthcare services. Especially, when it comes to information exchange, knowledge sharing and documentation at the point-of-care (POC), ICT is an enabling technique. The aim of this study was to explore the effects from the use of the OLD@HOME-prototype.The results shown that the OLD@HOME prototype was perceived to contribute in developing horizontal links for communication between individuals who work together, independent of geographical distance or organizational affiliation, and to contribute to increased work efficiency. The prototype was further seen to reduce professional isolation by providing a holistic overview of the care process. User centred design and implementation of the OLD@HOME prototype was considered a key issue to facilitate acceptance of organizational changes. Participation of care professionals not only led to a better understanding of the needs of involved organizations, it also increased end-users' involvement and commitment, stimulating them to test and improve the prototype until the final version.

The four managerial values of power distance, uncertainty avoidance, masculinity, and individualism measured by self-reports from 350 managerial trainees in the People's Republic of China (PRC) and Hong Kong provided the database for this research. The results indicate support for the convergence theory proposition that managerial values converge with increased industrialism. Further analysis revealed that it was the younger PRC managerial trainees who had values that were closest to those of Hong Kong managers of all ages.

Elderly healthcare is a likely arena for extensive change in years to come, and information and communication technology (ICT) will be an important enabler of such change. Before investing in new systems and practices, there will be a call for evaluations. To date, economic evaluations of ICT applications in healthcare have been rare, and a literature review did not turn up any examples of such evaluations of elderly care. The options for elderly care will often have to transcend organization boundaries, as the point of many ICT initiatives now being discussed is to make healthcare institutions, home care, and self-administered care interact in new ways. Analysts performing evaluations of such complex changes will have to be very specific about such classic issues in economic analysis as defining alternatives, the basis for comparison, and combining different indicators into an overall evaluation.

One of the original reasons for introducing team teaching into schools was because it seemed likely to make education more 'student-centred'. This paper considers how far this assumption holds in management education where team teaching is frequently employed. In doing this it is necessary to discuss the nature of team teaching in some detail, including both the variety of structural arrangements that may be adopted and the way that different assumptions about the proper content of management education can influence the choice of such arrangements. The conclusion is that the relationship is by no means straightforward, and that the success of team teaching itself depends very much on the skills and circumstances of the teachers involved.