Volume Flexible Strategies in Health Services: A Research Framework

Production and Operations Management - Tập 13 Số 3 - Trang 230-244 - 2004
Eric P. Jack1, Thomas L. Powers1
1Graduate School of Management, School of Business, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294, USA

Tóm tắt

The prevalence of fluctuating demand is increasingly seen as a serious and ongoing issue facing the health services industry. Volume flexibility in a health care setting represents a means to improve service delivery and it allows organizations to leverage their scarce resources for optimal utilization in response to fluctuations in patient demand. This paper develops a research framework that describes four volume flexible strategies based on literature reviews and structured field interviews of health care administrators at a Carnegie I research and teaching hospital. This prescriptive framework and the propositions that are developed create a foundation to help guide future research on the important relationships between demand uncertainty, volume flexible strategies, and organizational performance.

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