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This chapter focuses on the executive’s role in innovating health care. A distinction is made between two types of innovations: entrepreneurial innovations and institutional innovations. The first type aims to find new ways to enlarge market share, size and the competitive position of organizations. The latter aims to find new ways of connecting ‘old’ and ‘new’ logics (ways of thinking and working) in health care in order to make a long-standing contribution to a new type of health care system. This study looks at how health care executives view and enact both types of innovations.
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© 2011 Wilma van der Scheer, Mirko Noordegraaf and Pauline Meurs
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van der Scheer, W., Noordegraaf, M., Meurs, P. (2011). Innovating Entrepreneurship in Health Care: How Health Care Executives Perceive Innovation and Retain Legitimacy. In: Bekkers, V., Edelenbos, J., Steijn, B. (eds) Innovation in the Public Sector. IIAS Series: Governance and Public Management. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230307520_9
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