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Applying Entrepreneurship To Health Care Organizations, Kristina L. Guo
Applying Entrepreneurship To Health Care Organizations, Kristina L. Guo
New England Journal of Entrepreneurship
This study examines entrepreneurship and assesses its relevance to health care organizations through a detailed description of the optimal environment, organizational factors, and managerial roles in the entrepreneurship process. The article finds entrepreneurship processes to be especially useful to health care organizations as they struggle to survive in the competitive managed care environment.
The Drama Of Dysfunction: Value Conflict In Us Managed Care, Diana D. Mrotek
The Drama Of Dysfunction: Value Conflict In Us Managed Care, Diana D. Mrotek
WCBT Faculty Publications
The transformation of the American health care environment from retrospective fee-for-service to managed care has been both rapid and chaotic. This period of change has been infected by value conflict, evoking unconscious processes in system participants as they have attempted to cope with personally threatening situations. This article attempts to elucidate this process by presenting an account of events and accompanying value conflict as it occurred over time. It also includes a systems analysis of the rapidly changing mosaic of unconscious processes that resulted from the divergent values held by the public and health care professionals, using various organization behavior …