This book focuses on how companies are innovating with regard to the Bottom-of-the-Pyramid (BOP) − the lowest socio-economic segment, and the organizational conditions they need to be successful. The authors use several examples of disruptive innovations for this market, particularly in the...

Health is increasingly a critical concern in the context of development. This book examines the function of health systems, particularly the key factors: finance, human resources, pharmaceuticals, public facilities and stresses the importance of improving access to health services in developing...

Improving Access to Healthcare: Models of Adaptive Behavior -- Queueing Models for Healthcare Operations -- Applications of Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation to Healthcare Operations Management -- Optimization in Healthcare Delivery Modeling: Methods and Applications -- Operating Room Planning...

The decision technologies, tools and theories of Operations Research and Management Sciences have long been applied to a wide range of issues and problems within health care. To date, however, there has been no single handbook that synthesizes the wide applicability of such techniques. The...

This book provides a robust set of health economic principles and methods to inform societal decisions in relation to research, reimbursement and regulation (pricing and monitoring of performance in practice). We provide a theoretical and practical framework that navigates to avoid common biases...

1 Overview of Behavioral Economics and Policy -- 2 The Four Pillars of Behavioral Paternalism -- 3 Failing Better: What We Learn by Confronting Risk and Uncertainty -- 4 Behavioral Nudges and Consumer Technology -- 5 Private-Sector Nudging: The Good, the Bad, and the Uncertain -- 6 Who Should...

Berücksichtigung der Unsicherheit in zu beurteilenden Dienstleistungsproduktionen -- Kennzeichnung von Dienstleistungsproduktionen als stochastische Entscheidungsprobleme -- Verfahren zur Leistungsmessung von Entscheidungseinheiten -- Entwicklung einer Methodik zur Leistungsmessung...

Das Buch behandelt die aktuelle Steuerungsproblematik im Gesundheitssystem auf Makro-, Meso- und Mikroebene. Es wird ein Bezugsrahmen für notwendige Veränderungen im System geliefert sowie daraus Anforderungen an ein modernes Krankenhausmanagement abgeleitet. Zudem wird die Wirksamkeit der...

The book explains the problem of insufficient capital accumulation and growth in a less developed country. In conventional analyses, such explanations are often found exogenised in terms of factors such as socio-cultural attitudes towards saving and investment, irrationality of peasant...

This volume is a collection of papers on emerging concepts, approaches and ideas in information systems research. It examines theoretical and methodological issues related to both information systems development in general and the complexity of information systems as socio-technical systems. The...