Purpose: Decentralisation is considered a way to get managers more committed and more
prone to respond to local needs. This study analyses how managers perceive a …

Purpose Decentralisation in health care has been proposed as a way to make services more
responsive to local needs and by that improve patient care. This study analyses how the …

Purpose Decentralisation of decision‐making from central to lower level organisation has
been proposed as a way to increase innovation and make services more responsive to local …

This review examines the nature and application of decentralisation as an organisational
model for health care in England. The study reviews the relevant theoretical literature from a …

Purpose–The purpose of this research is to examine the issues of decentralisation in the
NHS. Design/methodology/approach–Evidence was gathered from an empirical study in …

Introduction This article examines the incentive effects of delegating operational and
financial decision making from central government to local healthcare providers. It …

Purpose–The paper seeks to explore whether the development in department management
in Norwegian hospitals after the unitary management reform in 2001 constitutes a …

Decentralization has long been regarded as an important management strategy to improve
the efficiency and effectiveness of health systems and health care institutions. In managerial …

Purpose Neo-liberal “reform” has in many countries shifted services across the boundary
between the public and private sector. This policy re-opens the question of what structural …

Healthcare systems may run into economic problems that may require 'active'
decommissioning by policy-makers and managers. The aim of this study was to investigate …