Strategic Management of Health Care Organizations - Hardcover

Ginter, Peter M.; Swayne, Linda E.; Duncan, W. Jack

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0631225862 ISBN 13: 9780631225867

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2002

Synopsis

A comprehensive, concise text on strategic management as it applied to a variety of health care organizations: physicians offices, hospitals, long-term care, health departments and others. The central theme of the text is that business-oriented strategic management can improve the success of health care organizations.

New to the fourth edition:

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• each chapter has been fully updated and revised
  
• situational analysis and implementation are explicitly tied together through the value chain framework
  
• it includes 22 case studies, of which 10 are brand-new.

The text also retains the important features that have made previous editions of the book such a success. Each chapter contains:

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• a generous number of examples and exhibits
  
• summaries and conclusions
  
• key terms and concepts
  
• questions for class discussion
  
• additional readings
  
• appendices that assist readers by presenting ways to analyze health care cases and make oral presentations.

The text is supported by PowerPoint Slides and a Teacher's Manual. Visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/ginter for details.

About this title

Book Description:

The fifth edition of the classic text in the field, Strategic Management of Health Care Organizations, introduces strategic thinking and planning strategies to advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as practitioners in the field .

From the Inside Flap:

The 6th 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.

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.

Highlights of the sixth edition:

· This edition is rich in new examples from real-world health care organizations

· In response to the waning interest among senior executives in the pursuit of short-term value, the authors have concentrated on the fundamentals of strategy analysis and the underlying sources of long-term success

· Chapters are brought to life by the Introductory Incidents, Learning Objectives, Perspectives, Lessons for Health Care Managers, Managers Bookshelf, and questions for class discussion

· The teaching materials and web supplements have been greatly enhanced in this edition, with power-point slides and other handy tools to give professors a unique resource

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0631225862
• ISBN 13: 9780631225867
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 991