The Healthy Health Care Workplace: a Competitive Advantage

The impact of physician job satisfaction on the sustained competitive advantage of health care organizations

Comparative Advantage and Competitive Advantage:

There is a considerable amount of controversy about the model(s) of comparative advantage and its applicability to international business, in particular as a guide to the success of nations and/or firms in international markets. This perception (or understanding) of inapplicability of the model(s) of comparative advantage has lead international business experts to develop new models, or what ma...

A Critique of Competitive Advantage

Despite its ubiquity, the concept of competitive advantage is surprisingly under-defined. At its worst, it is nothing more than a tautology: successful firms are successful because they have competitive advantage, which in turn cannot be defined in any other way than as a quality that brings about success. Defining the possession in terms of the outcome it produces presents ontological difficul...

Conflict in the health care workplace.

From the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas; and the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. Corresponding author: Michael A. E. Ramsay, MD, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management, Baylor University Medical Center, 3500 Gaston Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75...

Violence in the health care workplace.

Violence in the workplace refers to any threat, physical and/or psychological in nature, that is directed toward a person while at work. A report by the International Labour Organization concluded that workplace violence has increased dramatically throughout the world in recent decades. Among all occupational groups, health care personnel is a major target or victim of workplace violence. The r...