Influence of Hospital Capabilities on Organizational Performance of Mission Hospitals in Kenya

Peter Gaturu; Daniel Oigo

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Influence of Hospital Capabilities on Organizational Performance of Mission Hospitals in Kenya

Peter Gaturu, Daniel Oigo

Published in Journal of Business and Economic Development (Volume 3, Issue 1)

Received: 29 November 2017 Accepted: 15 December 2017 Published: 19 January 2018

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Abstract

Modern healthcare is characterized by new disease patterns; advanced technologies; unpredictable patients’ needs; physical infrastructure and diverse workforce requirements. A hospital is mainly the first point of health care service delivery; and is indispensable in fostering a healthy population. The health sector in Kenya has allowed a diverse non-governmental healthcare sector to develop. Mission hospitals belong to this sector and can significantly improve their service delivery with proper application of strategic management practices. The field of strategic management has undergone a major shift in focus over the last two decades regarding organizational performance variation: from industry's specific to organization-specific factors. Since the inception of strategic management studies in the 1950s; scholars have sought to know determinants that make some organizations more successful than others. This quest has created a bifurcated view, one on industry structure and the other on specific organizational resources.

Published in	Journal of Business and Economic Development (Volume 3, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.jbed.20180301.13
Page(s)	17-21
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Organizational Performance, Hospital Capabilities, Strategic Decisions, Hospital Performance and Mission Hospitals

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Peter Gaturu

Departmnet of Business Studies, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya
Daniel Oigo

Department of Business Administration and Management Science, Szent István University, Godollo, Hungary

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Peter Gaturu, Daniel Oigo. (2018). Influence of Hospital Capabilities on Organizational Performance of Mission Hospitals in Kenya. Journal of Business and Economic Development, 3(1), 17-21. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.jbed.20180301.13

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Peter Gaturu; Daniel Oigo. Influence of Hospital Capabilities on Organizational Performance of Mission Hospitals in Kenya. J. Bus. Econ. Dev. 2018, 3(1), 17-21. doi: 10.11648/j.jbed.20180301.13

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