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Is the new health-care executive an entrepreneur?

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  • Wilma van der Scheer

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Many countries are working on the realization of a new sort of public management, which is less governmental and more market oriented. As a consequence the role of health-care managers is changing. They are increasingly addressed as (social) entrepreneurs. This article is based on the results of a survey sent to Dutch health-care executives. The aim of the survey was to explore how the new discourse affects the practice of management. The results show that entrepreneurship is a construction and a contested concept. Nevertheless, executives are very sensitive to the concept. It certainly confuses them and can make them feel more vulnerable. However, new expectations can also perform an important function as a catalyst for executives to rethink their role and their position. From that point of view the phase of multi-interpretable expectations and vague discourse can be seen as a necessary phase in realizing health-care reform.

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  • Wilma van der Scheer, 2007. "Is the new health-care executive an entrepreneur?," Public Management Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 9(1), pages 49-65, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:pubmgr:v:9:y:2007:i:1:p:49-65
    DOI: 10.1080/14719030601181217
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    1. De Regge, Melissa & Eeckloo, Kristof, 2020. "Balancing hospital governance: A systematic review of 15 years of empirical research," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 262(C).
    2. Sophie Bacq & Chantal Hartog & Brigitte Hoogendoorn, 2016. "Beyond the Moral Portrayal of Social Entrepreneurs: An Empirical Approach to Who They Are and What Drives Them," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 133(4), pages 703-718, February.
    3. Maria Carriles-Alberdi & Carlos Lopez-Gutierrez & Ana Fernandez-Laviada, 2021. "The Influence of the Ecosystem on the Motivation of Social Entrepreneurs," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(2), pages 1-17, January.
    4. Hoogendoorn, B. & Pennings, H.P.G. & Thurik, A.R., 2010. "What do We Know about Social Entrepreneurship: An Analysis of Empirical Research," ERIM Report Series Research in Management ERS-2009-044-ORG, Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM is the joint research institute of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE) at Erasmus University Rotterdam.

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