2017
DOI: 10.1177/0951484817748157
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Do patients value a hospital’s innovativeness reputation? A multi-method approach to assess the relative importance of innovativeness reputation in patients’ hospital choice

Abstract: Innovations in health care are costly and risky, but they also provide the opportunity for hospitals to increase quality of care, to distinguish themselves from competitors and to attract patients. While numerous hospitals strive to increase their innovativeness by adopting a costly innovation leader strategy, the question of whether this actually influences the patient's choice remains unanswered. To understand the role of innovativeness from the patient perspective, this study conceptualizes the construct of… Show more

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“…Thus, next to policy initiatives and reforms, innovation and a reputation for being innovative become more important for hospitals to cope with future challenges. 2 It is widely accepted that employees are a very important group for innovation and value co-creation in a multi-stakeholder service environment. [3][4][5] Thus, the topic of employee involvement in innovation (EII) has been extensively studied in the literature, 6,7 and practices to foster innovative behavior amongst employees along the innovation process have been adopted across different organizations.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Thus, next to policy initiatives and reforms, innovation and a reputation for being innovative become more important for hospitals to cope with future challenges. 2 It is widely accepted that employees are a very important group for innovation and value co-creation in a multi-stakeholder service environment. [3][4][5] Thus, the topic of employee involvement in innovation (EII) has been extensively studied in the literature, 6,7 and practices to foster innovative behavior amongst employees along the innovation process have been adopted across different organizations.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Thus, next to policy initiatives and reforms, innovation and a reputation for being innovative become more important for hospitals to cope with future challenges. 2…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%