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Radio frequency identification: the big role player in health care management
Yahia Zare MehrjerdiThis paper seeks to review the fundamental concepts of radio frequency identification (RFID) and to discuss the fact that the road to success for healthcare systems is the…
The mediating role of organizational subcultures in health care organizations
Peter Lok, Jo Rhodes, Bob WestwoodThis study aims to investigate the mediating role of organizational subculture between job satisfaction, organizational commitment (dependent variables) and leadership, culture…
Organizational culture based on the example of an Estonian hospital
Iisi Saame, Anne Reino, Maaja VadiThe concept of organisational culture (also referred to later as OC) is one of the approaches in modern organisational analysis exploring the values, attitudes and beliefs behind…
Health care policies and resisting consumers in a prototypical welfare state
Anette Lykke HindhedeIt has been argued by researchers from the Anglo‐Saxon nations that the rationality of the market has increasingly infiltrated the medical field. This paper seeks to enquire via…
The trade‐off between efficiency and quality in hospital departments
Roman Mennicken, Ludwig Kuntz, Christoph SchwierzHospital managers are confronted with decisions that have to account for multiple objectives, which may be in conflict with regard to efficiency and quality of care. In empirical…
Regulating time commitments in healthcare organizations: Managers' boundary approaches at work and in life
Ellinor Tengelin, Rebecka Arman, Ewa Wikström, Lotta DellveThe purpose of this paper is to explore managers' boundary setting in order to better understand their handling of time commitment to work activities, stress, and recovery during…
