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Elgar encyclopedia of healthcare management
Lega, Federico (ed.) - 2023
"Management practices within the healthcare sector are shaped by a multitude of professional, social, political and technical factors. This Elgar Encyclopedia of Healthcare Management provides insights and definitions on essential themes that clarify complexity and specificity of leading within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372525
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Appreciative inquiry and knowledge management : a social constructionist perspective
Thatchenkery, Tojo Joseph - 2007
1. Introduction : a new adventure -- 2. Knowledge sharing : a historical perspective -- 3. The generative potential of appreciative processes -- 4. How to ASK -- 5. Private sector case studies -- 6. Government sector case studies -- 7. Public service case study -- 8. Summary, conclusion, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419970
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Asia's innovation systems in transition
Lundvall, Bengt-Åke (contributor);  … - 2006
The success of Asian economies (first Japan, then Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong and, more recently, China and India) has made it tempting to look for "an Asian model of development". However, the strength of Asian development lies less in strategies that reproduce successful national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851948
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Organizational learning and knowledge management
Whalen, Peter S. (contributor); Holloway, Samuel (contributor) - 2008
For this three-volume set the editors have selected many of the most influential articles published since 1984 on the topics of knowledge management and the improvement of organizational learning, developmental learning by individual organizations and the development of populations of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852236
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Platforms, markets and innovation
Gawer, Annabelle (contributor) - 2009
Annabelle Gawer presents cutting-edge contributions from 24 top international scholars from 19 universities across Europe, the USA and Asia, from the disciplines of strategy, economics, innovation, organization studies and knowledge management. The novel insights assembled in this volume...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851372
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A research agenda for lean management
Furlan, Andrea (ed.); Powell, Daryl J. (ed.) - 2024
"Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. This fascinating Research Agenda analyzes the key...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512172
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Innovation in public sector services : entrepreneurship, creativity and management
Windrum, Paul (contributor); Koch, Per M. (contributor) - 2008
This groundbreaking book provides new key insights and opens up an important research agenda. The book develops a new taxonomy of the different types of innovation found in public sector services, and investigates the key features and drivers of public sector entrepreneurship. The book contains...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852048
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Cost-benefit analysis and health care evaluations
Brent, Robert J. - 2003
Cost-benefit analysis is the only method of economic evaluation which can effectively indicate whether a health care treatment or intervention is worthwhile. This book attempts to build a bridge between cost-benefit analysis, as developed by economists, and the health care evaluation literature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420110
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Reforming healthcare systems
Marmor, Theodore - 2011
. Zugangsregulierung und Inanspruchnahme fachärztlicher Leistungen in Europa', Das Gesundheitswesen, 72 (8/09), 447-54. -- Rothgang, H., M …-97. -- Wendt, Claus (2009a), Krankenversicherung oder Gesundheitsversorgung? Gesundheitssysteme im Vergleich, 2nd Edition …-115 -- Uwe E. Reinhardt (1996), 'Spending More Through "Cost Control " Our Obsessive Quest to Gut the Hospital', Health Affairs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420117
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The political economy of HIV/AIDS in developing countries : TRIPS, public health systems, and free access
Coriat, Benjamin (contributor) - 2008
The book is based on original data and field studies from Brazil, Thailand, India and Sub-Saharan Africa. Focusing on the issue of universal and free access to treatment (a goal now taken to heart by the international community), it assesses the progress made and presents a rigorous diagnosis of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850669