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Strategic Thinking and Entrepreneurial Action in the Health Care Industry (Hardcover, New)
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Strategic Thinking and Entrepreneurial Action in the Health Care Industry (Hardcover, New)
Series: Advances in Health Care Management
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Increasingly, there is a need for managers operating in the complex
and dynamic health care environment to better understand the
competitive nature of the health care industry and the
opportunities that potentially exist within it. In response, this
sixth volume of "Advances in Health Care Management" is dedicated
to strategic thinking and entrepreneurial action in the health care
industry.
As implied in the title, this volume of eleven independent chapters
is arranged in four sections. The first section is composed of
three chapters, focusing on the health care industry itself. The
first of these serves as an introduction for this volume, with the
other two chapters taking an historical and futuristic perspective
of the health care industry, respectively. These two chapters serve
as solid contextual reference points for which we can position the
remaining manuscripts. The second section contains two chapters
that more explicitly examine strategic issues within a specified
health care context. The first of these examines strategy and
structure fit in a large sample of physician organizations, while
the latter studies a single, large medical center to demonstrate
the impact culture and human capital have on strategic outcomes.
Four chapters make up the third section, which focuses on
innovation and entrepreneurship. The first two chapters in this
section focus on the processes of entrepreneurship in the health
care environment, with both the similarities and dissimilarities
between the health care industry and other contexts being
discussed. The latter two chapters of the third section, on the
other hand, principally demonstrate the activities and implications
associated withentrepreneurship, or the lack thereof. Finally, the
fourth section contains two chapters that integrate both strategic
and entrepreneurial perspectives. One of these chapters creates a
typology of new biotechnology ventures; the focus in this chapter
is on how such firms exploit opportunities. The final chapter,
then, examines strategic corporate entrepreneurship by
comprehensively studying one major organization??'s entry into the
health care services marketplace.
Collectively, these multi-faceted chapters help to recognize and
address the often elusive phenomenon of successful strategic choice
over environmental determinism, which is aided by quality strategic
thinking and decisive entrepreneurial actions. In summary, these
chapters help to emphasize the importance of these issues to the
health care industry and the managers operating within it.
*Examines the health care and hospital industries and their
relation to entrepreneurial action and strategy
*Provides 11 valuable chapters for scholars and researchers in
sociology and healthcare
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