Recent health care reforms in England, combined with financial austerity, have accelerated
both corporatization and commercialization in the English National Health Service (NHS) …

IMPACT The authors explore the way in which National Health Service (NHS) organizations
in England are becoming more entrepreneurial through seeking more commercial income …

Purpose–This paper seeks to investigate conditions under which entrepreneurs emerge as
agents of effective and sustainable change in UK National Health Service Trusts …

Rationale Few accounts of healthcare corporatisation examine the effects of the 2008
financial crisis. New Politics of the Welfare State (NPWS) theories recognise the relevance of …

An enduring feature of New Public Management in many countries has been the move to
create more autonomous,'complete'organisations such as universities, hospitals and social …

Purpose–This paper aims to critically examine the notion of entrepreneurship in the UK
National Health Service (NHS), promoted by government ministers and senior civil servants …

“Corporatizing Canada is an impressive collection by activist scholars focusing on the
commercialization by stealth of the public sector. Its accessible style is well integrated …

Corporatization, the conversion of state‐owned enterprises into semi‐autonomous, legally
independent entities, has gained in popularity internationally since the 1980s. This review …

This paper investigates transitions in the social organisation of medicine found in the
extended opportunities for private corporations to own, manage and deliver public …

Institutional entrepreneurs reconfigure control of different bases of power, across the public
and private sectors. They are thus to be distinguished from policy innovators within the …