Diversity, entrepreneurial innovation, and performance of healthcare sector in the <scp>COVID</scp>‐19 pandemic period

El-Chaarani, Hani; Raimi, Lukman

doi:10.1002/pa.2808

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“…Hence, this study investigates whether gender diversity influences a firm's exploration and exploitation capabilities. Our findings suggest a positive association between gender diversity in the workforce and the efficiency and innovation abilities of the firms (El Chaarani and Raimi, 2022). Also, our study establishes that female empowerment positively moderates the impact of gender diversity on the organisation's exploration capability.…”

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Firm’s exploration-exploitation capabilities. Do diversity and empowerment matter?

Singh

2023

EBR

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Purpose This paper aims to explore the effect of gender diversity and female empowerment on a firm’s exploration and exploitation capabilities. Design/methodology/approach This is an empirical paper. This study investigated the research question in this paper using data on UK Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 firms and OLS regression analysis. Findings This study found a positive association between senior management gender diversity in the workforce and exploitation and exploration capabilities. Also, female empowerment positively moderates senior management gender diversity’s impact on exploration capability. Practical implications This study advises firms aspiring ambidextrous to establish gender diversity – especially at the senior management level – and focus on female empowerment in their organisations. Originality/value This paper argued for the role of females in making the organisations ambidextrous by impacting both exploitation and exploration capabilities, which did not receive adequate research attention to date.

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Firm’s exploration-exploitation capabilities. Do diversity and empowerment matter?

Singh

2023

EBR

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“…Meanwhile, private hospitals should pay attention to gender and age diversity of employees as they can enhance performance and patient satisfaction. [45] Finally, the government should implement preferential policies such as tax reduction, optimize financing policies, and encourage social capital to invest in private hospitals.…”

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Evaluating private hospital performance before and during COVID-19 in China

Wang,

2024

Medicine

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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic had a tremendous impact on the global medical system. The development of private hospitals is an important measure to deepen the reform of China’s medical and health system, and an important driving force to improve the effective supply of medical services. This study aims to compare the performance of China’s private hospitals before and during COVID-19 and determine the factors that affect hospital profitability between the 2 periods. Data are collected from 10 private listed hospitals from 2017 to 2022, and ratio analysis is used to measure hospital performance in 5 aspects, namely profitability, liquidity, leverage, activity (efficiency), and cost coverage. Multiple regression analysis is used to determine the influencing factors of hospital profitability. The results show a negative impact of COVID-19 on private hospital performance. Specifically, regardless of region, hospital profitability, liquidity, and cost coverage were reduced due to COVID-19, while hospital leverage was increased. COVID-19 had also an impact on hospital efficiency. In addition, before COVID-19, current ratio and cost coverage ratio were the determinants of hospital profitability, while only cost coverage ratio affected hospital profitability during the COVID-19 outbreak. We provide evidence that COVID-19 had an impact on China private hospitals, and the findings will aid private hospitals in improving their performance in the post-COVID-19 era.

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“…, 2022c) such as LSS. As stated by El Chaarani and Raimi (2022), women involved in the private healthcare improve their level of entrepreneurial innovation and idea generation. Their commitment has been beneficial, leading to improvements in the delivery of medical services, procedures and logistics.…”

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Lean Six Sigma and quality performance in Italian public and private hospitals: a gender perspective

Ciasullo,

Douglas,

Romeo

et al. 2023

IJQRM

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PurposeLean Six Sigma in public and private healthcare organisations has received considerable attention over the last decade. Nevertheless, such process improvement methodologies are not generalizable, and their effective implementation relies on contextual variables. The purpose of this study is to explore the readiness of Italian hospitals for Lean Six Sigma and Quality Performance Improvement (LSS&QPI), with a focus on gender differences.Design/methodology/approachA survey comprising 441 healthcare professionals from public and private hospitals was conducted. Multivariate analysis of variance was used to determine the mean scores on the LSS&QPI dimensions based on hospital type, gender and their interaction.FindingsThe results showed that public healthcare professional are more aware of quality performance improvement initiatives than private healthcare professionals. Moreover, gender differences emerged according to the type of hospital, with higher awareness for men than women in public hospitals, whereas for private hospitals the opposite was true.Research limitations/implicationsThis study contributes to the Lean Six Sigma literature by focusing on the holistic assessment of LSS&QPI implementation.Practical implicationsThis study informs healthcare managers about the revolution within healthcare organisations, especially public ones. Healthcare managers should spend time understanding Lean Six Sigma as a strategic orientation to promote the “lean hospital”, improving processes and fostering patient-centredness.Originality/valueThis is a preliminary study focussing on analysing inter-relationship between perceived importance of soft readiness factors such as gender dynamics as a missing jigsaw in the current literature. In addition, the research advances a holistic assessment of LSS&QPI, which sets it apart from the studies on single initiatives that have been documented to date.

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Diversity, entrepreneurial innovation, and performance of healthcare sector in the COVID‐19 pandemic period

Cited by 16 publications

References 100 publications

Firm’s exploration-exploitation capabilities. Do diversity and empowerment matter?

Firm’s exploration-exploitation capabilities. Do diversity and empowerment matter?

Evaluating private hospital performance before and during COVID-19 in China

Lean Six Sigma and quality performance in Italian public and private hospitals: a gender perspective

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