Pieters, Angele; van Oirschot, Charlotte; Akkermans, Henk - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 30 (2010) 11, pp. 1112-1139
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report on a study investigating the limits of the applicability of the focused factory concept (FFC) in health care. The case setting comes from the Dutch obstetric care system, which is organised by principles in sync with the FFC; the organisation for...