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Sustainable development operationalization in healthcare organizations and the role of intellectual capital
The thesis investigates the operationalization of the sustainable development principle (SD) in health care organizations (HCOs). Based on the examination of the literature, the thesis uses a multi-method approach to investigate: a) the emerging interpretation about SD in the health context, b) intellectual capital (IC) factors that may affect the implementation of SD projects, c) the organizational approach used for sustainability decision making, and d) the main sustainability practices in the health care context. To answer these research questions, a survey was initially carried out through the realization of, which was addressed to General Directors (GDs) of Italian health care organizations, as responsible for HCOs’ strategic planning. Subsequently, the case study of an Italian Regional Health Service has provided the opportunity to analyze the implementation of a SD program within HCOs, introduced by a new policy agenda. The analyzes revealed that sustainability decision-making within these organizations is mainly a matter of existing organizational structures, combined in informal and occasional ways, or of collective bodies, in order to take advantage from different skills. A minority has however indicated the use of office/organizational positions: this approach does not allow cross-fertilization between different disciplines and could prevent the development of a SD culture. The construction of an IC model based on the reference literature, has allowed to test the contribution that these assets have given to the realization of SD projects within HCOs. Among them, according to GDs, the "research for efficiency" was the factor that played the most important role in this respect, while "skills and training" were perceived as less important probably due to the inability of the current academic system to set programs for health professions based on interdisciplinarity, as required by the nature of SD. In addition, the GDs who attributed high importance to information technology and advanced technologies for ...
Sustainable development operationalization in healthcare organizations and the role of intellectual capital
The thesis investigates the operationalization of the sustainable development principle (SD) in health care organizations (HCOs). Based on the examination of the literature, the thesis uses a multi-method approach to investigate: a) the emerging interpretation about SD in the health context, b) intellectual capital (IC) factors that may affect the implementation of SD projects, c) the organizational approach used for sustainability decision making, and d) the main sustainability practices in the health care context. To answer these research questions, a survey was initially carried out through the realization of, which was addressed to General Directors (GDs) of Italian health care organizations, as responsible for HCOs’ strategic planning. Subsequently, the case study of an Italian Regional Health Service has provided the opportunity to analyze the implementation of a SD program within HCOs, introduced by a new policy agenda. The analyzes revealed that sustainability decision-making within these organizations is mainly a matter of existing organizational structures, combined in informal and occasional ways, or of collective bodies, in order to take advantage from different skills. A minority has however indicated the use of office/organizational positions: this approach does not allow cross-fertilization between different disciplines and could prevent the development of a SD culture. The construction of an IC model based on the reference literature, has allowed to test the contribution that these assets have given to the realization of SD projects within HCOs. Among them, according to GDs, the "research for efficiency" was the factor that played the most important role in this respect, while "skills and training" were perceived as less important probably due to the inability of the current academic system to set programs for health professions based on interdisciplinarity, as required by the nature of SD. In addition, the GDs who attributed high importance to information technology and advanced technologies for ...
Sustainable development operationalization in healthcare organizations and the role of intellectual capital
CAVICCHI, Caterina (Autor:in) / Cavicchi, Caterina / VAGNONI, Emidia
06.04.2017
Hochschulschrift
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
DDC:
690
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