The Performance of Local Health Provision Networks.
The Case of the Hungarian Managed Care Organizations
The Performance of Local Health Provision Networks.
The Case of the Hungarian Managed Care Organizations
Author(s): Viktória Bodnár, Dávid Dankó, György Drótos, Norbert Kiss, Mark Molnar, Éva RévészSubject(s): Management and complex organizations, Health and medicine and law, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: Hungary; local service provision; network model; managed care organizations;
Summary/Abstract: Public management literature, using network theories, is basically directed at examining and explaining how policy networks work. Much less attention is paid to analyze local service provision networks. In our paper we explore how a network management model can be used to describe local health provision networks, how the performance of local networks is influenced by network characteristics, and how these local networks can be connected to policy networks. We use the framework created by Benson (1975; 1982) and “rediscovered” by Hudson (2004) to examine the case of Hungarian managed care organizations. We find that this model can be applied to examine the performance of local service provision networks as well as the policy level factors behind them.
Journal: Society and Economy. In Central and Eastern Europe ǀ Journal of the Corvinus University of Budapest
- Issue Year: 28/2006
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 117-136
- Page Count: 20
- Language: English