... rivalry among Medicare risk‐based HMOs. However, the Porter model reveals crucial information regarding the forces which drive industry competition. Trends in the field of managed care and Medicare financing continue to be a real challenge regarding future research. Two distinct buyers purchase products...

...Kerry Swinehart; Thomas W. Zimmerer; Sharon Oswald Industrial organizations have employed the process of strategic management in their attempts to cope effectively with global competitive pressures, while attempting to build and maintain competitive advantage. With health‐care organizations...

... of piecemeal managed competition and will form a natural barrier to market forces in the NHS. The introduction of market pricing into the NHS via external sourcing of services and the requirement to price hospital treatments have been some of the responses to the NHS White Paper[ 1 ]. The premiss...

...Alan Maynard The authors of the NHS White Paper ‘Working for Patients’ apparently wish to create a UK health care market, ie a network of purchasers and providers who contract with one another. However the rules governing the behaviour of these actors may create a market which is not competitive...