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Vidinė rinkodara Portugalijos sveikatos apsaugos sistemoje
Internal Marketing in Portuguese Health Care

Author(s): Daniela Azêdo, Helena Alves, Walter Wymer
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Mykolas Romeris University
Keywords: Internal marketing; scale development; nurses; health care

Summary/Abstract: Our study replicates and extends prior research on internal marketing by adapting the Jou, Chou and Fu’s (20083) scale for the health care context. Our study includes a sample of 234 nurses, 135 from public hospitals using a traditional management model and 99 from long-term care units using a non-traditional management model. Our findings indicate that the IMS, when used to measure nurses’ perceptions of their organisations’ internal marketing orientation, was reliable. The findings also indicate a relatively low (mean = approximately 3.2 in a 7 point scale) perception of international marketing practices in our sample organisation.

  • Issue Year: 11/2012
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 641-658
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: English