Medical Family Businesses in Poland – Model and Managerial Challenges

Sułkowski Łukasz, Woźniak Andrzej and Sułkowska Joanna
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Sułkowski Łukasz: Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
Sułkowska Joanna: Ph.D. University of Social Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Management, 2017, vol. 22, issue 1, 163-175

Abstract: Medical Family Businesses in Poland - Model and Managerial Challenges There is a deficit of data in Poland about characteristics of family enterprises providing medical services. The medical sector in Poland faces a rapid development of family businesses and is diverse because it encompasses various size business entities that specialize in many possible aspects of the medical business. The article is about the characteristics of family enterprises providing medical services and extent to which they resemble family businesses, and to which they are derived from medical service activities. The article is of theoretical nature and its aim is to propose the model for the functioning of family-owned medical businesses, taking into account the impact of the type of activity and the family organization. The first part of the article is focuses on characteristics of family businesses, there is relatively little representative research analyzing the share of family enterprises in the Polish economy and describing their character. The second part of the article is the problem of ethos of medical professions in relation to business and economic logics of an organization. In the third of the article part there is a proposal for a model combining both aspects of the functioning of this type of economic entities.

Keywords: medical family businesses; sector of medical services; health sector in Poland; managerial challenges; model of family medical services (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.2478/manment-2018-0012

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