Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how far plans to “modernize” hospital
management in China are converging toward a global model of new public management …

Background Hospital governance is broadening its orientation from cost and production
controls towards 'improving performance on clinical outcomes'. Given this new focus one …

Background Hospital governance increasingly combines management and professional self-
governance. This article maps the new emergent modes of control in a comparative …

Purpose This study aims to investigate the hybridization practices that medical managers
engage with to promote accounting and performance measurement in the hybrid setting of …

Hybrid professionals in healthcare organizations play a critical role, the characteristics,
processes and implications of which have been thoroughly studied by scholars in the field …

Strategic planning (SP) is a widely-used practice within public sector organizations.
However, SP does not only take place in strategy workshops and senior management …

The extant leadership research has paid increasing attention to the concept of motivation to
lead (MTL) as an individual construct that strongly affects leadership processes and …

The purpose of this literature review was to synthesize the existing knowledge regarding
physician engagement and leadership and to identify key recommendations to enhance …

Purpose–As a consequence of new public management reforms, leading professionals in
public service organizations have increasingly been involved in management roles. The …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the intricate ways in which accounting is
implicated in the unfolding of strategizing in a pluralistic setting. The authors treat …