Service Innovation Capability in Social and Health Care SMEs: The Impact of Market Orientation and Technology Orientation

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (03) ◽  
pp. 183-206
Author(s):  
Sanna Joensuu-Salo ◽  
Emilia Kangas ◽  
Jutta Mäkipelkola
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Market Orientation ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Service Innovation ◽  
Important Variable ◽  
Innovation Capability ◽  
Mixed Methods Design ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Technology Orientation ◽  
The Impact

Developing new services is vital for a service-based company to succeed in the long run. This requires both innovation capability and understanding customer needs. Previous research has shown that if a firm wishes to develop an innovation superior to the competition, it must have both a strong technology orientation and a strong market orientation. The objective of this study was to examine the effect of market orientation and technology orientation on service innovation capability in SMEs operating in the field of social and health care. In addition, this study examined the obstacles to using digitalization and new technologies in service innovations. Mixed methods design was applied so both quantitative and qualitative data was used. The results from the quantitative part of this study show that both technology orientation and market orientation have a positive and statistically significant effect on service innovation capability in SMEs operating in the field of social and health care. Furthermore, market orientation is the most important variable in the model. The results from the qualitative element again show that some of the hindering factors of using digitalization and new technologies arise from practices and attitudes of social and health care actors but others arise from the digitalization and new technologies themselves.

scholarly journals The Business and Accounting Technology Innovation for Better Firm Performance: A Case of Malaysian Firms

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 60
Author(s):  
Maher A. Al-Shmam ◽  
Hosam Alden Riyadh ◽  
Salsabila Aisyah Alfaiza
Keyword(s):  
Firm Performance ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Innovation Capability ◽  
Business Innovation ◽  
Technology Orientation ◽  
The Impact

Business and Accounting Technology innovation can play a significant role in enhancing economic growth and has the potential to bring about change and create opportunities for every business Within the introduction of a wide variety of new technologies during the fourth industrial revolution, therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the impact of business innovation, technology orientation and Accounting technological innovation capabilities on firm performance in the Malaysian firms. To achieve this objective 337 sample responses were collected from the business managers of Malaysian firms related to technology and innovation using the purposive sampling technique. Furthermore, this study has used explanatory purpose because of the reason that it gives effective and enhanced understanding PLS-SEM was employed for data analysis using Smart-PLS version 3.2.8. The results have shown that business innovation and technology orientation have a significantly positive effect on technology innovation capability while accounting technology innovation capability has a positive significant effect on firm performance. Implications are the Managers needs to be more aware regarding OI and TICs and how these two processes simultaneously can affect the firm performance. In addition, managers can easily use OI to develop their skills, methods, and innovation aspects. The managers are recommended to provide employees a creative environment and motivate employees to work in an open environment so that it can increase the accounting technological innovation capabilities.   Received: 3 August 2021 / Accepted: 7 October 2021 / Published: 5 November 2021

Voices of Nurses During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Call to Action

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-93
Author(s):  
Mary Jo Kreitzer
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Organizations ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Systemic Racism ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Bounce Back

The Covid-19 pandemic is having a significant impact on the well-being of nurses and has exacerbated long-standing issues of stress and burnout. Expecting or hoping that nurses will recover quickly or bounce back from the stress and deep trauma of the pandemic is not realistic. Each nurse has a story, and while these stories may have similar themes, they are all different. It is important to reflect on our stories, identify the myriad of emotions we are experiencing, and find ways to work through our feelings. Ignoring, denying, or suppressing feelings does not serve us well in the long run. Stifling negative emotions does not make them go away. A Call to Action is needed to address the impact of the pandemic, clinician burnout, and systemic racism on health-care organizations and educational institutions. Strategies are identified that will support personal and organizational well-being.

The impact of new technologies on clinical decision-making in health care

Science ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 350 (6266) ◽  
pp. 1397-1397
Author(s):  
R. Rosenquist Brandell ◽  
O. Kallioniemi ◽  
A. Wedell
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Clinical Decision Making ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Clinical Decision ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals The phantom of technological unemployment

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rostislav Kapeliushnikov
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Labor Demand ◽  
Technological Changes ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Technological Unemployment ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Strong Positive Relationship ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Near Future

Nowadays there are many gloomy prophecies provided by both technologists and economists about the detrimental effects of the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution on aggregate employment and its composition. These prophecies imply that in the near future we will face Robocalypse — a massive replacement of people by machines alongside an explosion in joblessness. This paper provides theoretical, empirical and historical evidence that the phenomenon of technological unemployment is a phantom. The most general results can be summarized as follows: in the long run, reduction in labor demand under the impact of new technologies is merely a theoretical possibility that has never before been realized in practice; at the level of individual firms, there is a strong positive relationship between innovations and employment growth; at the sectoral level, technological changes cause a multidirectional employment response, since different industries are at different stages of the life cycle; at the macro level, technological progress acts as a positive or neutral, but not a negative factor; a surge in technological unemployment, even in the short-term, seems a remote prospect since in coming decades the pace of technological change is unlikely to be fast enough by historical standards; the impact of new technologies on labor supply may be a more serious problem than their impact on labor demand; technological changes seem to have a much greater effect on the composition of employment than on its level.

The Precautionary Saving Effect of Government Consumption

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerio Ercolani ◽  
Nicola Pavoni
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Precautionary Saving ◽  
Public Health Care ◽  
Health Shocks ◽  
Government Consumption ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Saving Effect ◽  
The Impact

Abstract We study a largely neglected channel through which government expenditures can boost private consumption. We set up a dynamic model in which households are subject to health shocks. We take the model to the data and estimate a negative impact of public health care on household consumption dispersion, wealth and saving. According to our model, this result is explained by a change in the level of precautionary saving, with public health care acting as a form of consumption insurance. We compute the implied consumption multipliers by simulating the typical government consumption shock within a calibrated general equilibrium version of our model, with flexible prices. The impact consumption multiplier generated by the decrease in the level of precautionary saving is positive and sizable. When we include the effect of taxation, the sign of the impact multiplier depends on a few features of the model, such as the persistence of the health shocks. The long-run cumulative multiplier is negative across all calibrations.

Foreign Direct Investment as a Development Strategy

2013 ◽  
pp. 13-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Nur Ozkan-Gunay ◽  
Yusuf Cukurcayir
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Knowledge Spillovers ◽  
Spillover Effects ◽  
Innovation Capability ◽  
Host Countries ◽  
Innovative Capability ◽  
The Impact

This chapter investigates the spillover effects of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on innovation capability in four competing emerging economies in the district of Eastern Europe, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Turkey, for the period 1995-2008. Panel data models are employed to test two competing hypotheses regarding the impact of FDI on innovation capability: it may improve the innovation capability of host countries via spillover channels, or may lead to the crowding-out effect through the importation of technologies via joint ventures. The empirical evidence corroborates that FDI inflows generate spillover effects on domestic innovation capability in competing emerging countries, supporting the hypothesis that inward FDI brings knowledge spillovers, new technologies, and products into the host country and promotes the innovation capability of domestic firms. In addition, the level of human capital stock and qualified researchers play a crucial role in stimulating innovative capability and technological progress.

scholarly journals HEALTHCARE IN UKRAINE DURING THE EPIDEMIC: DIFFICULTIES, CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS

2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (5) ◽  
pp. 1256-1261
Author(s):  
Anna R. Ivats-Chabina ◽  
Olena L. Korolchuk ◽  
Alexandr Yu. Kachur ◽  
Vladyslav A. Smiianov
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Quality Care ◽  
Prevention Measures ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Medical Institutions ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

The aim: Of this research was to investigate the impact of quarantine restrictions on the health care system in Ukraine, quality of providing and accessibility of health care services for population during quarantine; analyze the influence of economic and social outcomes of epidemy on state of health care. Materials and methods: For this paper was made a retrospective analysis of COVID-19 morbidity statistics, economic indicators and governmental decrees aimed at resolving the problem of the spreading of coronavirus and ensuring the proper work of medical institutions at all levels of health care. This work includes analysis of data for the period since the beginning of quarantine on the territory of Ukraine in March 2020 till present time. Conclusions: The complexity of the socio-political and economic situation in Ukraine and the conduct of hostilities in the east of the country have significantly complicated the fight against the spread of coronavirus in the country. Negative changes in the indicators of hospital security were observed both at the secondary level – treatment of patients with COVID-19, and the primary level – primary contact with the patient, primary care, prevention measures. In the long run, this will have significant implications for the individual health of those who have not been able to receive quality care, as well as for public health in general.

scholarly journals Impact of an online cardiac rehabilitation program after an acute coronary syndrome during SARS-CoV-2 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (Supplement_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
A Severo Sanchez ◽  
B Rivero Santana ◽  
E Arbas Redondo ◽  
VM Juarez Olmos ◽  
D Poveda Pinedo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Acute Coronary Syndrome ◽  
Cardiac Rehabilitation ◽  
Mediterranean Diet ◽  
Cardiovascular Health ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Rehabilitation Program ◽  
Prevention Measures ◽  
Coronary Syndrome ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: Public hospital(s). Main funding source(s): Hospital Universitario La Paz Introduction The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has overloaded health care systems at several fields. Spanish COVID-19 first wave led to the interruption of most cardiac rehabilitation (CRH) programs in our country. Resume activity without compromising patient"s safety has been a challenge. At our centre (a third-level hospital), we modified our routine clinical practice from face-to-face interviews to a complete online CRH program since July 1st 2020. Purpose The aim of this study is to analyse the impact of an online CRH program after hospital discharge for an acute coronary syndrome in health goals and adherence to secondary prevention measures at the end of the program. Methods This is a retrospective study made up of patients who, after suffering an acute myocardial infarction, followed an online CRH program from June to November 2020. A first online assessment is made by a cardiology consultant. Then, it is followed by ten online group interviews of up to three patients and a health care proffesional: either a nurse or a physiotherapist. These interviews last around ninety minutes. Four weeks after, an online follow-up interview is made by a cardiology consultant. These interviews focus either on physical exercise instructions (aerobical exercise and endurance exercise) or educational interviews (ischemic cardiomyopathy, Mediterranean diet, pharmacological treatment, sexual dysfunction, stress management techniques and solution of questions). Results Up to eighty-four patients were included in our CRH program (this means 83% of patients discharged from our hospital after an acute coronary event). Median of time from discharge to first online interview was 8"79 days and from this last one to program beginning, 3"67 days. Four weeks after the beginning of the program, 82% of the patients presented with a LDL-cholesterol level below aim level (< 55 mg/dL). Workout, Mediterranean diet and tobacco abstinence observance rates were over 90%. There were just three patients who gave up or did not complete the program. Conclusion Despite the fact that SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has arisen a huge challenge for ongoing CRH programs in Spain, the benefit that has been showed by them on cardiovascular health, makes it necessary to develop new tools to allow them going on. New technologies are an opportunity for us to keep on following these patients, moreover showing good results as for adherence, availability and patient and operator assesssment.

scholarly journals Public Health Care and Government Health Expenditures in Pakistan

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 93-98
Author(s):  
Mudasir Ali ◽  
Durdana Qaiser Gilani ◽  
An ul Abdin
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Expenditure ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Public Health Care ◽  
Public Healthcare ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Government ◽  
Expenditure Need ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Adf Test

This study evaluates the impact of health care expenditure by the government on health sector outcomes in Pakistan by using data from the period 1982 to 2016. To examine whether the variables are stationary, the ADF test is run whereas the relationship among the variables is tested through the ARDL model technique. The empirical result from the regression equation shows that healthcare expenditure affects significantly the health sector outcome i.e., a decrease in infant deaths in the long run. Bilateral and multilateral fund assistance becomes a part of health expenditure in less progressive countries which is helpful for increasing the resource allocation in the vital segment of the economy. Hence funds allocated for health care expenditure need to be sensibly utilized because it will help in achieving a portion of the Millennium Development Goals. Improved wellbeing can be achieved as an outcome of enhanced capacities of the health sector as a result of the proper allocation of public healthcare funds.

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