In this article, the opportunities for Americans to learn from Europeans regarding the pros
and cons of a comprehensive health care system, the role of regionalization in achieving …

Innovation is a widely studied field. It is extremely important for any organization wishing to
achieve and maintain a competitive advantage in the market, even though assessing the …

Prologue: More than any other single figure, Alain Enthoven is responsible for establishing
and promoting the ideas that are the intellectual underpinnings of America's rapidly …

This study examines how ownership affected changes in hospital inefficiency after the
introduction of prospective payment by Medicare. Using a national data set, we estimate cost …

Explosive growth in spending on physician services in the 1980s has focussed the attention
of policymakers and researchers on inefficiencies in physician practices. This chapter …

Financial difficulties are threatening many healthcare organizations. To survive and target
new markets of growth, strategic decision makers need to adapt existing business …

Prologue: Many legislative proposals to reform the health care system promote expansion of
managed care as the best current hope to control health care costs. Private employers have …

Using DiMaggio and Powell's concept of institutional isomorphism, the authors explain why
healthcare lags behind other industries in innovating new production functions that address …

The “market forces” to which economists ascribe the ability to motivate improvement in
quality and efficiency are largely nonexistent in US health care. One thus might ask,“Could …