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Organizational resilience scales have been adapted to the hospital context. To prepare for high consequence infectious diseases (HCID), the Long Hospital Resilience Scale (L-HRS; N=48) was tested in two German hospitals in 2019 and the Short...

The existing knowledge about the role of leaders in planned change within healthcare organizations is insufficient. Additionally, there is a lack of understanding regarding their contribution to organizational resilience. Therefore, the study aims...

Current challenges are jeopardising the centuries-long stability of Benedictine monasteries, whose resilience is now being put to the test. The lack of young people, the aging of the convents, decrease in the returns on the substance economy as well...

This paper analyses the inclusion of all three pillars of sustainability in planning decisions for home care (HC) services, focusing on HC Routing and Scheduling Problems (HCRSP). Mobility concepts used by HC staff play a vital role in routing...

Nonprofit-organizations (NPO) often play an important role in overcoming crises, so that their ability to resist, cope and learn is highly relevant to society. However, there is still a need for research on the resilience of these mission-oriented...

This study explores scientific evidence on the repercussions of Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG) funding, a large-scale public healthcare intervention implemented in Austria's public hospital inpatient sector in the late 1990s. We investigate past and...

Care for the elderly at home is an issue of common welfare. The public sector must adapt the existing working conditions of caregivers to cover the increasing demand with decreasing resources. As proven for Austria as an example, this means from the...

By means of the morphological paradigm of the analysis of economic social entities, the public economy of the third sector can be fruitfully opened up within the framework of a comprehensive dynamic geometry of a multi-sectoral system analysis. This...

The literature on analyzing organizations has devoted more to positive than failed cases. Nevertheless, the "dark side" represents one of the constituent elements of everyday organizational practices. Given these considerations, the paper focuses on...

The Declaration of Alma Ata (1978) stipulated “Primary Health Care” (PHC) as the fundamental paradigm of health care systems world-wide. PHC is primarily based on community based health care (CBHC) with a high degree of participation of all...

Sustainability has become an important concept in the banking sector in recent years. Against this background, the paper deals with the integration of the idea of sustainability into the business model of a Catholic church bank - Pax-Bank eG. In...

Sociocratic and democratic organizations stand as real utopias, entrusting extensive decision-making and design competencies to all employees. Drawing from the findings of a qualitative explorative study involving 13 expert and employee interviews,...

The financial burden of insured persons in the GKV is of significant importance given the increasing public finance deficits and rise in contribution charges. This study makes use of a microsimulation model to determine the total burden of insured...

Sustainability, regionality and common good are in line with the zeitgeist. For the Braucommune Freistadt, however, they are not just “marketing buzzwords”; due to its unique legal construction, this brewery has lived these values since its...