Dynamic capabilities and performance improvement of private hospitals in China on the basis of resource-based theory: A case study of Foshan Chancheng Central Hospital (FCCH)

Based on the resource based view, and by applying a dynamic capabilities theory, this thesis explains and illustrates how enterprises adapt to the changing environments, identify and discover opportunities and threats. The effective coordination and integration of internal and external resources enable enterprises to form a long lasting and rapid resource model that can make enterprises to be adaptive to the changes in external environment, create more value with resources, and thus bring unique dynamic capabilities to enterprises to have sustainable competitive advantages. Dynamic capabilities can transform the old knowledge of enterprises to new knowledge or create new knowledge adapted to the new environment within the enterprise, thus changing the original capability structure of the enterprise and making the enterprise step forward. Dynamic capabilities are effective means for enterprises to obtain sustainable competitive advantage, which can only be obtained by the possession of dynamic capabilities. Taking the reform, development, strategy implementation and resource integration practice of Foshan Chancheng Hospital as an example, the research has important enlightenment significance for Chinese private hospitals to explore effective integration of internal and external resources and how to build their dynamic capabilities to improve competitive advantages and obtain good performance.Com base numa visão baseada em recursos, na teoria das capacidades dinâmicas, esta Tese pretende mostrar como as empresas se adaptam a ambientes em mudança, identificando oportunidades e ameaças no ambiente e reconstro em recursos internos e externos. A coordenação e integração eficazes de recursos internos e externos permitem que as empresas formem uma configuração de recursos rápida e duradoura que pode fazer com que as empresas se adaptem às mudanças no ambiente exter no, criem mais valor com os recursos e, assim, tragam capacidades dinâmicas exclusivas dando aso a vantagens competitivas sustentáveis. Capacidades dinâmicas podem transformar o conhecimento antigo das empresas em novo conhecimento ou criar novos conhecime ntos adaptados ao novo ambiente dentro da empresa, mudando assim a estrutura de capacidade original da empresa e fazendo a empresa dar um passo à frente. Capacidades dinâmicas são meios eficazes para as empresas obterem vantagem competitiva sustentável, qu e só pode ser obtida pela posse de capacidades dinâmicas. Tomando o desenvolvimento, a implementação da estratégia e a prática de integração de recursos do Hospital Foshan Chancheng como exemplo, a Tese discute ainda as formas fundamentais para os hospitai s privados chineses integrarem efetivamente recursos internos e externos, construindo assim capacidades dinâmicas para sustentar vantagens competitivas

Health care system reform in developing countries

This article proposes a critical but non-systematic review of recent health care system reforms in developing countries. The literature reports mixed results as to whether reforms improve the financial protection of the poor or not. We discuss the reasons for these differences by comparing three representative countries: Mexico, Vietnam, and China. First, the design of the health care system reform, as well as the summary of its evaluation, is briefly described for each country. Then, the discussion is developed along two lines: policy design and evaluation methodology. The review suggests that i) background differences, such as social development, poverty level, and population health should be considered when taking other countries as a model; ii) although demand-side reforms can be improved, more attention should be paid to supply-side reforms; and iii) the findings of empirical evaluation might be biased due to the evaluation design, the choice of outcome, data quality, and evaluation methodology, which should be borne in mind when designing health care system reforms

Transparency, trade costs, and regional integration in the Asia Pacific

The authors show in this paper that increasing the transparency of the trading environment can be an important complement to traditional liberalization of tariff and non-tariff barriers. Our definition of transparency is grounded in a transaction cost analysis. The authors focus on two dimensions of transparency: predictability (reducing the cost of uncertainty) and simplification (reducing information costs). Using the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) member economies as a case study, the authors construct indices of importer and exporter transparency for the region from a wide range of sources. Our results from a gravity model suggest that improving trade-related transparency in APEC could hold significant benefits by raising intra-APEC trade by proximately USD 148 billion or 7.5 pecent of baseline trade in the region.Economic Theory&Research,Free Trade,Emerging Markets,Debt Markets,Trade Policy