Journal of Health Organization and Management: Volume 38 Issue 4

Is knowledge liberating? The role of knowledge behaviors and competition on the workplace happiness of healthcare professionals

Tiago Gonçalves, Lucía Muñoz-Pascual, Carla Curado

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the joint impact of competitive culture and knowledge behaviors (sharing, hoarding and hiding) on workplace happiness among healthcare…

Organizing visions for data-centric management: how Norwegian policy documents construe the use of data in health organizations

Mads Solberg, Ralf Kirchhoff, Jannike Dyb Oksavik, Lauri Wessel

Norway, like other welfare states, seeks to leverage data to transform its pressured public healthcare system. While managers will be central to doing so, we lack knowledge about…

Relationship between profitability and financial factors of hospitals after a period of austerity and health care reforms: evidence from Greece

Stelios Terzoudis, Nikolaos Kontodimopoulos, John Fanourgiakis

The reduction of government expenditure in the healthcare system, the difficulty of finding new sources of funding and the reduction in disposable income per capita are the most…

Before and during COVID-19: the roles of transformational leadership, organizational culture and work–life balance in healthcare

Giancarlo Gomes, Gérson Tontini, Vania Montibeler Krause, Marianne Bernardes

This research aims to investigate the role of transformational leadership and organizational culture – encompassing Clan, Adhocracy, Hierarchical and Market Cultures – in the…

Colorectal cancer prevention in Central, Eastern European and South Caucasus countries: a review of policy approaches

Miranda Nonikashvili, Maia Kereselidze, Otar Toidze, Tina Beruchashvili

This study aims to examine the availability and comprehensiveness of policies pertaining to colorectal cancer (CRC) in Central, Eastern European and South Caucasus countries, as…

Evaluating the readiness of healthcare administration students to utilize AI for sustainable leadership: a survey study

Mohammad Movahed, Stephanie Bilderback

This paper explores how healthcare administration students perceive the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare leadership, mainly focusing on the sustainability…

How did whistleblowing and the duty of candour get onto the agenda of the British national health service

Martin Powell

This paper compares how the two interacting themes of “Whistleblowing” or “Speaking Up” and the duty of candour (DoC), which are both concerned with safety and quality improvement…

Diagnosing patient flow issues in the emergency department: an Australasian hospital case study

Tillmann Boehme, Brogan Rylands, Joshua Poh Fan, Sharon Williams, Eric Deakins

This study investigates how a hospital can increase the flow of patients through its emergency department by using benchmarking and process improvement techniques borrowed from…