What drives hospital wards’ ambidexterity: Insights on the determinants of exploration and exploitation

Emanuela Foglia, Lucrezia Ferrario, Emanuele Lettieri, Emanuele Porazzi and Luca Gastaldi

Health Policy, 2019, vol. 123, issue 12, 1298-1307

Abstract: Hospital wards are required to exploit current knowledge and explore for new knowledge. Ambidexterity (i.e., the capability to combine both exploitation and exploration) is a major issue in healthcare as result of the growing expectations that hospitals wards have the capability to manage the trade-off between high-quality delivery of care and cost-containment. This study sheds novel light on the determinants of ambidextrous behaviours in hospital wards.

Keywords: Ambidexterity; Exploration; Exploitation; Hospital; Innovation; Creativity; Efficiency; Quality; Improvement; Leadership; Organizational Support; Organization; Strategy; Change management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2019.10.004

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