Healthcare organizations

Harald Tuckermann and Matthias Mitterlechner

Chapter 4.21 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Strategy as Practice, 2025, pp 440-442 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This entry examines strategizing within healthcare organizations. These organizations merit a closer scrutiny due to their substantial social, ethical, scientific, political, and economic significance. Furthermore, hospitals and other healthcare organizations cannot be easily compared to other industrial and service organizations. They are pluralistic organizations characterized by knowledge-intensive work processes, actors with high autonomy, diffuse power relations, and divergent goals, all of which make strategizing particularly challenging. Due to this broad understanding of strategy and the focus on everyday practices, SAP research is particularly well-suited to address the pluralistic nature of healthcare organizations.

Keywords: Healthcare Organizations; SAP; Pluralistic Organizations; Strategy Practices; Policy Implementation; Innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035315956
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