This chapter summarizes recent theoretical and empirical economic research on long-term
care. Long-term care differs from acute medical care in four fundamental ways. Long-term …

This article critically reviews the association between the profit status of North American
nursing homes and the quality of care. Studies were identified by searching MEDLINE …

The Economics of Health and Health Care is the market-leading health economics textbook,
providing comprehensive coverage of all the key topics, and balancing economic theory …

Nonprofit organizations (NPOs) contribute to society through their social value creation.
They operate in an increasingly turbulent context where building sustainable organizations …

What makes for a good theory in economics? Tastes and opinions differ on this important
issue, with some admiring the mathematical elegance and logical completeness of analysis …

This article presents a model of strategic nonprofit human resource management (SNHRM)
that draws from resource-based view and resource dependence theory, to explain the …

Given the preferential tax treatment afforded nonprofit firms, policymakers and researchers
have been interested in whether the nonprofit sector provides higher nursing home quality …

Background. Recent work has highlighted a negative correlation between proprietary status
and nursing home quality of care. This relationship might be explained by the context in …

The importance of non-profit institutions in the health care sector has generated a vast
empirical literature examining quality differences between non-profit and for-profit nursing …

Competition in the nonprofit world has intensified in recent years, and nonprofit managers
are challenged to devise strategies that will serve both organizational needs and public …