Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to G T Hult.
In the absence of a statistically based assessment of cluster assignments of observations in terms of their similarity along selected variables the validity of a set of clusters could be developed if clusters withstand both empirical scrutiny and "make sense" to expert informants.
To many health care executives, emphasis on marketing strategy has become a means of survival in the threatening new environment of cost attainment, intense competition, and prospective payment. This paper develops a positive model of the health care organization based on organizational learning theory and the concept of the health care offering. It is proposed that the typical health care organization represents the prototype of the learning organization. Thus, commitment to a shared vision is proposed to be an integral part of the health care organization and its diagnosis, treatment, and delivery of the health care offering, which is based on the exchange relationship, including its communicative environment. Based on the model, strategic marketing implications are discussed.