Context Across the member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and
Development, policy makers are searching for new ways to pay hospitals for inpatient care …

Research has demonstrated how the translation of a new management concept into
organizational practices is impacted by the translators' engagement with their local context …

Introduction Shared decision-making (SDM) refers to the collaboration between patients and
their healthcare providers to make clinical decisions based on evidence and patient …

In economic theory, market competition is expected to enhance efficiency, improve quality,
stimulate innovation and eventually control costs. 1 Promoting competition with the aim of …

Background: Across the member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation
and Development, policy makers are searching for new ways to pay hospitals for inpatient …

Fair allocation of funding in multi-centre clinical studies is challenging. Models commonly
used in Germany-the case fees (“fixed-rate model”, FRM) and up-front staffing and …

As evidence mounts about the positive effects of autonomous motivation such as public
service motivation, there is a growing case for public organizations to design reforms to …

We explore how a management control initiative travels across and is translated within
organizations—from the decision motives for adoption or rejection to the subsequent …

The funding of public hospitals is an issue that has been of great concern to health systems
in the past decades. Public hospitals are owned and fully funded by the government …

Activity-based financing (ABF) and global budgeting are two common reimbursement
models in hospital care that embody different incentives for cost containment and quality …