Transformational health-care leaders in collaborative entrepreneurial model to achieve UNSDG: a qualitative study
ISSN: 1751-1879
Article publication date: 13 September 2022
Issue publication date: 19 October 2022
Abstract
Purpose
The agglomeration of specialist health-care facilities has often been restricted to metropolitan areas. This study aims to understand how health-care professionals with transformational leadership behaviors and entrepreneurial aims with a similar vision and expertise play pertinent roles in providing essential specialized health care in rural and semi-urban areas and achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs).
Design/methodology/approach
Qualitative synthesis using focused-group discussions and interviews was conducted in a phased manner. For this, this study has used stakeholder-theory, and dynamic-capabilities approaches.
Findings
This study explores the intricacies of collaborative entrepreneurship (CE)-based health-care ventures in developing regions and reveals five pertinent attributes: strategic control, synergy, commitment, empathy and satisfaction. This study recommends that entrepreneurial collaboration, especially by transformational health-care leaders, can significantly contribute to creating an endogenous health-care ecosystem with advanced facilities and technology-enabled modern infrastructure and augmenting regional development.
Research limitations/implications
This study was conducted in semi-urban settings in India. Future research should include other sectors and regions to generalize the findings.
Practical implications
This study benefits health-care professionals having an analogous vision, skills and entrepreneurial aims.
Social implications
Collaboration of health-care professionals and using transformational leadership behaviors can considerably contribute to providing specialist health care in developing areas and enhance patient satisfaction.
Originality/value
To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study to discuss the importance of CE in health care in developing areas. In addition, it discusses the benefits of the CE model in achieving the UNSDGs and offers valuable suggestions for health-care professionals and administrators.
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Acknowledgements
The authors sincerely thank two anonymous reviewers and the editor of “Leadership in Health Services,” who helped us to offer valuable comments to improve this study. The authors also thank the human resource team of GI One Hospital, Aurangabad, for their generous support.
Disclosure of potential conflicts of interest certificate: It is submitted that there are no conflict of interest with any person or any organization regarding the publication of the article “Transformational Healthcare Leaders in Collaborative Entrepreneurial Model to achieve UNSDG: A qualitative study” in the “Leadership in Health Services” journal.
Author contributions: All authors (Prashant Sunil Borde, Dr Ridhi Arora and Dr Sanjeeb Kakoty) have contributed to the study conception and design. Literature review has been conducted by Prashant Sunil Borde. Further, the analysis and proposition were performed by Prashant Sunil Borde and Dr Ridhi Arora. The first draft of the manuscript was written by Prashant Sunil Borde and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. Dr Ridhi Arora and Dr Sanjeeb Kakoty have supervised and critically revised the work. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Citation
Borde, P.S., Arora, R. and Kakoty, S. (2022), "Transformational health-care leaders in collaborative entrepreneurial model to achieve UNSDG: a qualitative study", Leadership in Health Services, Vol. 35 No. 4, pp. 477-493. https://doi.org/10.1108/LHS-03-2022-0032
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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