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Broadening Focus: Spillovers, Complementarities, and Specialization in the Hospital Industry

Clark, Jonathan R.; Huckman, Robert S. - In: Management Science 58 (2012) 4, pp. 708-722

. Using the empirical context of cardiovascular care within hospitals, we first examine the relationship between a hospital …

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Does the Standardization Process Matter? A Study of Cost Effectiveness in Hospital Drug Formularies

Kwon, Seok-Woo - In: Management Science 54 (2008) 6, pp. 1065-1079

While research on the cost effectiveness of standardization to date has focused on the impact of different degrees of standardization, it has paid insufficient attention to the process an organization uses to formulate and implement standardized procedures. Drawing on the organizational...

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Evaluating Financial Risk in the Medicare Prospective Payment System

Dada, Maqbool; White, William D. - In: Management Science 45 (1999) 3, pp. 316-329

use this framework to examine optional reinsurance as an alternative risk mitigation mechanism. We illustrate an …

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Reservation Planning for Elective Surgery Under Uncertain Demand for Emergency Surgery

Gerchak, Yigal; Gupta, Diwakar; Henig, Mordechai - In: Management Science 42 (1996) 3, pp. 321-334

This work concerns the advance scheduling of elective surgery when the operating rooms' capacity utilization by emergency surgery, as well as by elective procedures, is uncertain. New requests for bookings of elective surgery arrive each day. Such procedures preferably would be performed as soon...

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Privacy Protection and Technology Diffusion: The Case of Electronic Medical Records

Miller, Amalia R.; Tucker, Catherine - In: Management Science 55 (2009) 7, pp. 1077-1093

. Alternatively, privacy protection may inhibit adoption if hospitals cannot benefit from easily exchanging patient information. We …). EMRs allow medical providers to store and exchange patient information using computers rather than paper records. Hospitals … find that state privacy regulation restricting hospital release of health information reduces aggregate EMR adoption by …

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Implementing New Practices: An Empirical Study of Organizational Learning in Hospital Intensive Care Units

Tucker, Anita L.; Nembhard, Ingrid M.; Edmondson, Amy C. - In: Management Science 53 (2007) 6, pp. 894-907

This paper contributes to research on organizational learning by investigating specific learning activities undertaken by improvement project teams in hospital intensive care units and proposing an integrative model to explain implementation success. Organizational learning is important in this...

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The Assimilation of Software Process Innovations: An Organizational Learning Perspective

Fichman, Robert G.; Kemerer, Chris F. - In: Management Science 43 (1997) 10, pp. 1345-1363

will defer adoption until knowledge barriers have been sufficiently lowered; however, this leaves open the question of …

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Information and Profitability Estimates: Modelling the Firm's Decision to Adopt a New Technology

Oliva, Terence A. - In: Management Science 37 (1991) 5, pp. 607-623

profitability estimates on the firm's adoption of a new technology or innovation. As such, the paper builds on the conceptual ideas …

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Information Cost and Innovation Adoption Policies

Jensen, Richard - In: Management Science 34 (1988) 2, pp. 230-239

A firm's manager must decide whether to adopt an innovation of uncertain profitability or to obtain some information and then decide to adopt or reject the innovation. Obtaining information can involve either waiting to receive some costless information or buying some additional information as...

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The Corporate Digital Divide: Determinants of Internet Adoption

Forman, Chris - In: Management Science 51 (2005) 4, pp. 641-654

Internet. I explore the sources of this variation by examining Internet adoption decisions in a very large sample of … client/server (C/S) networking applications have competing effects on the likelihood of Internet adoption. Such investments … can slow adoption by acting as a short-run substitute or by creating "switching costs." Geographic dispersion of employees …

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