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Leslie M Beitsch - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • using resource Dependency Theory to measure the environment in health care organizational studies a systematic review of the literature
    Health Care Management Review, 2014
    Co-Authors: Valerie A Yeager, Nir Menachemi, Grant T Savage, Peter M Ginter, Leslie M Beitsch
    Abstract:

    BACKGROUND: Studies using the resource Dependency Theory (RDT) perspective commonly focus on one or more of the following environmental dimensions: munificence, dynamism, and complexity. To date, no one has reviewed the use of this Theory in the health care management literature and there exists no consensus on how to operationalize the market environment in health care settings. PURPOSE: The purpose of this review is to examine and summarize the ways in which RDT has been applied in empirical studies of the external environments of health care organizations. In so doing, we identify gaps in the literature and examine the extent to which previous empirical findings aligned with hypothesized relationships based on RDT. METHODOLOGY: We conducted a systematic review of the peer-reviewed literature using a bibliographic search of PubMed and ABI/Inform databases. To identify all health care studies that incorporated the RDT perspective, the words "healthcare" or "health care" were searched in combination with any of the following words: resource Dependency Theory, uncertainty perspective, environment, munificence, dynamism, and complexity. We also performed a hand search of the reference lists of all manuscripts identified in the initial search to identify additional articles. FINDINGS: Twenty studies were included in this review. Wide variability existed in the number of variables used to measure the environment, the environmental constructs measured, and the specific variables used to operationalizethe environmental constructs. Of the 198 tests examining the relationship between environmental variables and the outcome of interest, 26.8% resulted in findings that supported the RDT-predicted hypotheses. PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS: The RDT literature is limited to studies of hospitals, nursing homes, and medical practices. There is little consensus on how to measure or operationalize the environment in these studies. No previous studies have measured the environment for other health care settings such as ambulatory surgery centers, public health departments, or assisted living facilities.

Mariano Féliz - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Dependency Theory – contemporary perspectives
    2017
    Co-Authors: Felipe Antunes De Oliveira, Felix Buchwald, Mariano Féliz
    Abstract:

    Panel Abstract: Dependency Theory flourished in the context of the crisis of Latin American classical Developmentalism in the 1960s and 1970s. Questioning key presuppositions of mainstream national development strategies, Dependency Theory brought to the centre of the debate the interplay between class relations and international constraints to development. Over the last thirty years, the successive neoliberal and neodevelopmentalist cycles pushed Dependency Theory back to a marginal position. Some Dependency writers moved to other perspectives, other faded from the academic and political debate. The contemporary crisis of neodevelopmentalism raises again the question about the limits of peripheral capitalist development and calls for a contemporary reassessment of Dependency Theory. The proposed panel tackles this question from different angles. Mariano Feliz explores the limits of development in Argentina from the perspective of popular movements; Felix Buchwald analyses possible synergies between Marini’s Dependency Theory and contemporary International Relations Theory; Felipe Antunes de Oliveira traces the origin of neodevelopmentalism back to the split of Dependency Theory in its revolutionary and reformist trends. Overall, an argument is made that a renewed engagement with Dependency Theory may shed light on key contemporary theoretical and political debates on development.

  • Dependency Theory contemporary perspectives
    14th Annual Conference, 2017
    Co-Authors: Felipe Antunes De Oliveira, Felix Buchwald, Mariano Féliz
    Abstract:

    Panel Abstract: Dependency Theory flourished in the context of the crisis of Latin American classical Developmentalism in the 1960s and 1970s. Questioning key presuppositions of mainstream national development strategies, Dependency Theory brought to the centre of the debate the interplay between class relations and international constraints to development. Over the last thirty years, the successive neoliberal and neodevelopmentalist cycles pushed Dependency Theory back to a marginal position. Some Dependency writers moved to other perspectives, other faded from the academic and political debate. The contemporary crisis of neodevelopmentalism raises again the question about the limits of peripheral capitalist development and calls for a contemporary reassessment of Dependency Theory. The proposed panel tackles this question from different angles. Mariano Feliz explores the limits of development in Argentina from the perspective of popular movements; Felix Buchwald analyses possible synergies between Marini’s Dependency Theory and contemporary International Relations Theory; Felipe Antunes de Oliveira traces the origin of neodevelopmentalism back to the split of Dependency Theory in its revolutionary and reformist trends. Overall, an argument is made that a renewed engagement with Dependency Theory may shed light on key contemporary theoretical and political debates on development.

Petri Virtanen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Valerie A Yeager - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • using resource Dependency Theory to measure the environment in health care organizational studies a systematic review of the literature
    Health Care Management Review, 2014
    Co-Authors: Valerie A Yeager, Nir Menachemi, Grant T Savage, Peter M Ginter, Leslie M Beitsch
    Abstract:

    BACKGROUND: Studies using the resource Dependency Theory (RDT) perspective commonly focus on one or more of the following environmental dimensions: munificence, dynamism, and complexity. To date, no one has reviewed the use of this Theory in the health care management literature and there exists no consensus on how to operationalize the market environment in health care settings. PURPOSE: The purpose of this review is to examine and summarize the ways in which RDT has been applied in empirical studies of the external environments of health care organizations. In so doing, we identify gaps in the literature and examine the extent to which previous empirical findings aligned with hypothesized relationships based on RDT. METHODOLOGY: We conducted a systematic review of the peer-reviewed literature using a bibliographic search of PubMed and ABI/Inform databases. To identify all health care studies that incorporated the RDT perspective, the words "healthcare" or "health care" were searched in combination with any of the following words: resource Dependency Theory, uncertainty perspective, environment, munificence, dynamism, and complexity. We also performed a hand search of the reference lists of all manuscripts identified in the initial search to identify additional articles. FINDINGS: Twenty studies were included in this review. Wide variability existed in the number of variables used to measure the environment, the environmental constructs measured, and the specific variables used to operationalizethe environmental constructs. Of the 198 tests examining the relationship between environmental variables and the outcome of interest, 26.8% resulted in findings that supported the RDT-predicted hypotheses. PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS: The RDT literature is limited to studies of hospitals, nursing homes, and medical practices. There is little consensus on how to measure or operationalize the environment in these studies. No previous studies have measured the environment for other health care settings such as ambulatory surgery centers, public health departments, or assisted living facilities.

Anne R. Hickling-hudson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Beyond Dependency Theory. A Postcolonial Perspective on Educating Papua New Guinea Students in Australian High Schools
    Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2005
    Co-Authors: Julie Mclaughlin, Anne R. Hickling-hudson
    Abstract:

    This paper explores the social and educational implications of the Secondary Schools Scholarship Project (SSSP) in which Australia gave over a thousand adolescents from Papua New Guinea three-year scholarships taken up in Australian High Schools. Drawing from postcolonial Theory, the paper uses concepts of ambivalence, hybridity, hegemony, contradiction and national discourse to analyse an array of issues which would not be in the purview of Dependency Theory. These aspects include not only the cultural ‘border-crossings’ and tensions experienced by the PNG scholarship winners through their Australian sojourn and return to PNG, but also the complex ambiguities in the outcomes and implications of a foreign aid project for a decolonising country. The scholarship program illustrates the politics of foreign aid in education, including the contradictions of receiving aid from a donor country which is garnering substantial benefits from the recipient country, and the complexity of the postcolonial challenge of utilising this aid in a way that meets national educational goals in a globalizing world.

  • Beyond Dependency Theory: A postcolonial analysis of educating Papua New Guinean high school students in Australian schools
    Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2005
    Co-Authors: Juliana M. Mclaughlin, Anne R. Hickling-hudson
    Abstract:

    This paper explores the social and educational implications of the Secondary Schools Scholarship Project (SSSP) in which Australia gave over 1,000 adolescents from Papua New Guinea three-year scholarships to study in Australian high schools. Drawing from postcolonial Theory, the paper uses concepts of ambivalence, hybridity, hegemony, contradiction, and national discourse to analyse an array of issues which would not be in the purview of Dependency Theory. These issues include not only the cultural “border-crossings” and tensions experienced by the Papua New Guinean scholarship winners during their Australian sojourn and return to Papua New Guinea, but also the complex ambiguities in the outcomes and implications of a foreign aid project for a decolonising country. The scholarship programme illustrates the politics of foreign aid in education, including the contradictions of receiving aid from a donor country which is garnering substantial benefits from the recipient country, and the complexity of the pos...