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Outsourcing in the German Hospital Sector

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  • Boris Augurzky
  • Markus Scheuer

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Being under pressure both from demographic changes in most industrialised countries and increasingly scarce financial resources in social security, in the last decade the German hospital sector tried to find some relief in outsourcing of services not belonging to its core competences like IT services, catering and cleaning. However, not all the hopes connected with this strategy have been fulfilled. This paper takes stock of the current situation of outsourcing in the German hospital sector mainly by the size of the institution. It describes the patterns of outsourcing in the sector, looks at the reasons for outsourcing, and describes the experiences with it of the hospitals on the one hand and the service providers on the other. We conclude by expressing our expectations concerning the foreseeable future of outsourcing in the German hospital sector.

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  • Boris Augurzky & Markus Scheuer, 2007. "Outsourcing in the German Hospital Sector," The Service Industries Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 27(3), pages 263-277, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:servic:v:27:y:2007:i:3:p:263-277
    DOI: 10.1080/02642060701207080
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    1. Augurzky, Boris & Engel, Dirk & Krolop, Sebastian & Schmidt, Christoph M. & Schmitz, Hendrik & Schwierz, Christoph & Terkatz, Stefan, 2007. "Krankenhaus Rating Report 2007: Die Spreu trennt sich vom Weizen," RWI Materialien 32, RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung.
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    1. Vaudt, Susanne & Da-Cruz, Patrick & Schwegel, Philipp, 2012. "Strukturelle Aspekte und Motivationen der Leistungsauslagerung in sozialwirtschaftlichen Unternehmen: Ergebnisse einer qualitativen Befragung diakonischer Träger," ZögU - Zeitschrift für öffentliche und gemeinwirtschaftliche Unternehmen, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, vol. 35(4), pages 447-464.
    2. Skipworth, Heather & Delbufalo, Emanuela & Mena, Carlos, 2020. "Logistics and procurement outsourcing in the healthcare sector: A comparative analysis," European Management Journal, Elsevier, vol. 38(3), pages 518-532.
    3. Nasrin Sayfouri & Soheila Kouchekyazdi & Masoud Etemadian & Rouhangiz Asadi, 2021. "A Systemic Inquiry into a Hospital’s Reformation Actions," Systemic Practice and Action Research, Springer, vol. 34(4), pages 359-376, August.

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