The relationship between hospital ownership, hospital process orientation and volume flexibility, an empirical study of 172 hospital departments in Shanghai
The objectives of this study were to analyses whether hospital ownership and hospital process orientation have a role on volume flexibility, and to discuss the implications of these relationships. A questionnaire was developed and sent to a random sample of 300 hospital departments in Shanghai. The response rate was 57％. The data were analyzed with confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling in LISREL. The results indicate that the model with relationships between hospital ownership, hospital process orientation and volume flexibility was found to be a reasonable representation of volume determining mechanism at hospital departments (p = 0.095, indicating no significant differences between the model and the data set). Ownership correlated strongly with process orientation (0.72) and volume flexibility (0.60). Given ownership, process. orientation also correlated with volume flexibility (0.20).
hospital management ownership process orientation volume flexibility
Y.H.Yang Q.F.Jiang
Department of Commerce management Shanghai Lixin University of Commerce Shanghai, China Department of Economic and management Shanghai JiaoTong University Shanghai, China
国际会议
成都
英文
100-104
2010-07-09（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）