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A conceptual framework to analyse hospital competitiveness

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  • Vasco Eiriz
  • Natália Barbosa
  • José Figueiredo

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This article proposes a conceptual framework to analyse hospital competitiveness at the organisational level. Hospital competitiveness, defined as the capacity a hospital has to develop a superior performance that leads it to a position of competitive advantage, may be analysed in three dimensions: organisation, strategic behaviour, and performance. Based on previous studies and on the current structural adjustment in the Portuguese public hospital sector, this article suggests the following categories: legal status, organisational complexity, and resources for the organisation dimension; stakeholders, services and inter-organisational relationships for the strategic behaviour dimension; and type of indicators, efficiency and effectiveness, and benchmarking for the performance dimension. This framework seems to be particularly useful in evaluating Portuguese hospital competitiveness and providing insights for hospitals' managers and public decision makers both from Portugal and other countries.

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  • Vasco Eiriz & Natália Barbosa & José Figueiredo, 2008. "A conceptual framework to analyse hospital competitiveness," The Service Industries Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 30(3), pages 437-448, April.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:servic:v:30:y:2008:i:3:p:437-448
    DOI: 10.1080/02642060802236137
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