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Selection of asset investment models by hospitals: examination of influencing factors,using Switzerland as an example
Authors:Bernhard Eicher
Institution:Center of Competence for Public Management, University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland
Abstract:Hospitals are responsible for a remarkable part of the annual increase in healthcare expenditure. This article examines one of the major cost drivers, the expenditure for investment in hospital assets. The study, conducted in Switzerland, identifies factors that influence hospitals' investment decisions. A suggestion on how to categorize asset investment models is presented based on the life cycle of an asset, and its influencing factors defined based on transaction cost economics. The influence of five factors (human asset specificity, physical asset specificity, uncertainty, bargaining power, and privacy of ownership) on the selection of an asset investment model is examined using a two‐step fuzzy‐set Qualitative Comparative Analysis. The research shows that outsourcing‐oriented asset investment models are particularly favored in the presence of two combinations of influencing factors: First, if technological uncertainty is high and both human asset specificity and bargaining power of a hospital are low. Second, if assets are very specific, technological uncertainty is high and there is a private hospital with low bargaining power, outsourcing‐oriented asset investment models are favored too. Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis, it can be demonstrated that investment decisions of hospitals do not depend on isolated influencing factors but on a combination of factors. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Keywords:asset investment models  Transaction Cost Economics  Qualitative Comparative Analysis  two‐step fs/QCA  public–  private partnership
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