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Strategic Management of Health Care Organizations, 6th Edition Hardcover: 880 pages
This classic book for health care managers, leaders, medical professionals and graduate students is now in its fifth edition, providing further guidance and focus on:
The central theme of the text is that business-oriented strategic management can improve the success of health care organizations. In addition, the authors have further developed their "map and compass" theme to foster strategic thinking. A comprehensive, concise book on strategic management as it applied to a variety of health care organizations:
The 6th edition of this established text is streamlined to a more manageable format, with the Appendices moved to the web-site and a significant shortening of the main text. There is a greater focus on the global analysis of industry and competition; and analysis of the internal environment. In consultation with feedback from their adopters, the authors have concentrated on the fundamentals of strategy analysis and the underlying sources of profit. This reflects waning interest among senior executives in the pursuit of short-term shareholder value:
Each chapter contains:
This edition of this classic strategic management text provides up-to-date and concise coverage of all the essential strategic momentum. In this edition, the authors have comprehensively addressed issue assessment in the health care environment, service area competitor analysis, internal organizational analysis, development of directional strategies, strategy formulation, and strategy implementation. You can view excerpts of this book here: Through the many new examples and perspectives integrated throughout the text along with numerous “strategic thinking maps” and analysis techniques, readers of this text will be able to develop comprehensive, well-documented, and innovative strategies for health care organizations. The focused format of this edition, combined with web support, make this an essential and accessible read.
Linda E. Swayne is Professor and Chair, Department of Marketing in the Belk College of Business Administration and Co-Director of the Physicians’ Management Institute at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She was Executive Director of the Carolinas’ Task Force on Health Care Policy, 1991–1993.
W. Jack Duncan is Professor and University Scholar in Management in the Graduate School of Management, and Professor of Health Care Organization and Policy and a Senior Scholar in the Lister Hill Center for Health Policy in the School of Public Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Peter M. Ginter is Professor of Management in the Graduate School of Management and Professor of Health Care Organization, and Policy and a Senior Scholar in the Lister Hill Center for Health Policy in the School of Public Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. (information from the publisher) You may also be interested in / Directory of Healthcare Recruiters / Jump to a List / Health Administration & Leadership / Physician Executive, Medical Staff & Practice Management / Finance, Accounting, Economics, Billing & Reimbursement / Coding for Hospital, Physician & Clinical Services / Law, Malpractice, Ethics, Accreditation & Compliance / Quality Improvement, Outcomes & Customer Service / Risk Management, Security, Error Reduction & Patient Safety / Information Systems, Technology & Medical Records / Clinical Management & Executive Nursing / Behavioral Health, Social Work & Psychiatry Management / Human Resources, Management & Supervision / Directories, Data, Trends & Benchmarks / Software & CD-ROMs / Gift Ideas & Recommended Gifts / Journals, Magazines & Newsletters / Search for Books / Books Index / Go to / Home Page / Toolbox for Health Administrators / Bookstore / |
