HCO strategy; risk; economic security; health care management; HCO management control
Abstract :
[en] Despite a significant progress achieved in the healthcare sector during last
decades, we need to admit the fact that many urgent problems remain unsolved
even in well developed countries. Along with other major factors,
economic causes of these problems hold a prominent position. It is then
necessary to think about a need of shifting from a view of hospitals as ever
being institutions existing by default in any society to a view of hospitals as
organisations with an incorporated economic mechanism, adapted to social
changes and relevant economic risks. With this regard, this paper seeks to
incorporate the concept of economic security of the hospital into Simons’
LOC model used in hospital management. We provide a brief overview of
the concept of economic security of the organization. We adjust this concept
for hospital management considering the healthcare system as an economic
system and taking main problems of the hospital and interests of stakeholders
in the core of strategy development. Further, we accommodate the concept
with the levers of control. The result of the paper is a revised Simons’
LOC model which provides a theoretical framework for further research on
hospital management and serves a modified management instrument.
Research Center/Unit :
CEPE - Centre d'Études de la Performance des Entreprises - ULiège
Disciplines :
Special economic topics (health, labor, transportation...)
Author, co-author :
Shutyak, Yuliya ; Université de Liège - ULiège > HEC-Ecole de gestion : UER > Diagnostic et contrôle de l'entreprise
Van Caillie, Didier ; Université de Liège - ULiège > HEC-Ecole de gestion : UER > Diagnostic et contrôle de l'entreprise
Language :
English
Title :
The concept of economic security of the hospital: A new look at the levers of control
Alternative titles :
[en] Le concept de sécurité économique de l'hôpital : un nouveau regard sur les leviers de contrôle