Applying entrepreneurship to health care organizations

From: New England Journal of Entrepreneurship | Date: April 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

This study examines entrepreneurship and assesses its relevance to health care organizations through a detailed description of the optimal environment, organizational factors, and managerial roles in the entrepreneurship process. The article finds entrepreneurship processes to be especially useful to health care organizations as they struggle to survive in the competitive managed care environment.

The U.S. health care environment is extremely turbulent, competitive, and complex. With managed care rapidly dominating the health care delivery, strategies to cut costs and improve quality and ...

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