excellent hospital services is accompanied by a strong pressure to reduce costs in order to secure the survival of the hospital … Restrukturierungsansätze im Krankenhaus. … the existing structures in the health care sector in general and the hospital sector in particular. The environmental …

In this research we will focus on three topics which we think are particularly relevant for hospital competition: i … hospitals are in the focus of many studies on health care costs and production. Since the main cost drivers -technological … to detect and reduce inefficiencies in this market. Therefore, hospital inefficiency is one main aspect in our research …

providers. An introduction to relevant aspects of contract theory is followed by their adaptation to the characteristics of the … health care system. The focus lies on an ex ante alignment of incentive structures as well as on an efficient handling of … conflicts of interest once a contract has been sealed (ex post). The theory based conclusions are contrasted with the situation …

mainly focus on land use change, in which models of decision-making are combined with geographical information systems …

closely related to network governance and social network theory, than to political administrative hierarchy. However, so far …

records caused by non-reporting health facilities, allowing robust estimation of monthly and annual use of services by …

theory research approach. Primary data have been collected from the in-depth interviews conducted with the RFID project …