Boundaryless Hospital Rethink and Redefine Health Care Management
This book discusses current health care challenges and new strategies for innovative solutions in this area from an interdisciplinary perspective of health care management, business economics, and medicine. It presents the idea of a “boundaryless hospital
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Horst Albach • Heribert Meffert • Andreas Pinkwart • Ralf Reichwald • Wilfried von Eiff Editors
Boundaryless Hospital Rethink and Redefine Health Care Management
Editors Horst Albach Center for Advanced Studies in Management HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management Leipzig, Germany
Heribert Meffert Center for Advanced Studies in Management HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management Leipzig, Germany
Andreas Pinkwart Center for Advanced Studies in Management HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management Leipzig, Germany
Ralf Reichwald Center for Advanced Studies in Management HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management Leipzig, Germany
Wilfried von Eiff Center for Health Care Management and Regulation HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management Leipzig, Germany
ISBN 978-3-662-49010-5 ISBN 978-3-662-49012-9 DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-49012-9
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Preface
The title of this book is taken from an article which was published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Medicine in 1994. The authors J. Braithwaite, R. Vining, and L. Lazarus applied a vision of the organization that Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric (GE), had developed to make his company successful: boundarylessness. In the 1990 Annual Report of GE, Welch projected, “Our dream for the 1990s is a boundaryless company, a company where we knock down the walls that separate us from each other on the inside and from our key constituencies on the outside.” For Jack Welch, boundarylessness was the way to increase productivity. In his CEO letter to GE’s shareholders, he wrote one year
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