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The literature on organizational niche suggests that competition between firms that have overlapping niches tends to elevate exit risks. Thus, firms tend to enter markets that are relatively uncrowded in order to minimize direct competition with other firms. Although this research has focused on...
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other management functions. To resolve their dilemmas, nurse executives most frequently relied on their personal values and … development should incorporate ethical management issues into its programs. …
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U.S. businesses have overwhelmingly approached employee health from a cost management, rather than investment …, I draw upon the resource-based view and past research on health promotion and health care cost management to outline the … productivity.Based on these findings, I argue that minimalistic cost management approaches to employee health are unwise from both …
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This dissertation examines three distinct problems in the healthcare operations field and demonstrates how decision making can be improved in each setting. The first problem addresses how to make dynamic, real-time allocation decisions of testing time slots for a Cardiac Diagnostic Testing...
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The purpose of this dissertation is to study the development process of hospital information systems (HIS) in China's hospitals. The dissertation addressed five research questions: (1) What are the contextual conditions that impact China's hospital information systems (HIS) development? (2) How...
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I examine the problem of writing guaranteed renewable health insurance in the presence of medical spending growth. Prior research suggests that the growth and difficulty in forecasting future medical costs is an impediment to multiperiod health insurance, where contract reserves are used to pay...
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A novel survey dataset on computed tomography (CT) machine acquisition is used to explore which theories best answer two questions from the decision making literature. First, what determines how much uncertainty a firm has when investing in updated technology? Second, what determines the value...
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In recent years, certain health policy makers have emphasized the need for an increase in preventive services interventions as means to improve health outcomes and cut health care costs. Oftentimes, the debate around the purported benefits of prevention centers on the need to cut the costs of...
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Price transparency measures have been recently introduced in the public and private sectors in an effort to increase efficiency within health care markets. Recent implementation of these measures has included publicly available websites which act similarly to search engines in allowing consumers...
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