This paper aims to provide a review and synthesis of the performance-based contracting
(PBC) literature across academic disciplines. It also seeks to examine how the operations …

Purpose Contemporary supply chain relationships inherently rely on delegation of work
between organizations and, thus, are subject to agency problems for which a wide range of …

This study reviews the research on planning and scheduling in healthcare published in
Production and Operations Management (POM) and other prestigious operations …

Healthcare systems throughout the world are under pressure to widen access, improve
efficiency and quality of care, and reduce inequity. Achieving these conflicting goals requires …

Healthcare reimbursements in the United States have been traditionally based on a fee-for-
service (FFS) scheme, providing incentives for high volume of care, rather than efficient care …

This paper examines the impact of two reimbursement schemes, fee-for-service and
bundled payment, on the social welfare, the patient revisit rate, and the patient waiting time …

To reduce preventable readmissions, many healthcare systems are transitioning from fee‐
for‐service (FFS) to other reimbursement schemes such as pay‐for‐performance (P4P) or …

This work focuses on the business-to-business interaction between a service requester and
a service provider in a healthcare environment. The requester is the primary caregiver …

Recently the service industry is transitioning from material-based contracting to performance-
based contracting. This paradigm shift enables the supplier to maximize the profit by …

In this paper, we review the existing studies on the design of financial incentives and
payment mechanisms for healthcare service providers, which have been published in the …