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... care system in Finland. The case description and related analysis presented are based on qualitative data gathered by interviewing leading office‐holders, by process modeling and by observing management group meetings. Findings Conceptually, a health ecosystem seems to have potential for the system...

.... In Finland, health care services are based on public provision. As a consequence, the structures of health care organizations represent traditional organization models, such as bureaucracy and professional organization. Hospitals, for instance, are mainly seen as professional bureaucracies where...

..., 2004 ; Tammi, 2007). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Consumerism Ethnography Finland Public sector organizations Health services The context of our study is Finnish drug treatment, which underwent a major transformation in the 1990s. A central feature...

... wide‐scale decision‐making (  Hoffmann et al., 2002). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Decision making Knowledge management Health services Medical management Finland In healthcare management, it is important to employ diverse methods for knowledge...

... direction) to 5 (better direction). In addition, the respondents were requested to disclose their views on the reactions to changes in the organization by answering an open‐ended question. Health services Communication Leadership Finland Oral health care is undergoing many structural...

..., doctor‐managers are in need of a broader orientation to support the management of healthcare services, as well as of additional management training. Health services Decision making Doctors Finland In terms of its institutional structure, financing and goals, the Finnish healthcare system...

... a questionnaire to every second physician registered in 1977‐1986 in Finland. They were asked to evaluate their principal physicians' managerial skills using a visual analogue scale. A five‐point Likert scale was used to inquire how much training doctors had received for different professional tasks, including...