Editorial Statement—Healthcare Management
Healthcare Management
Anita Carson, Boston University
Nicos Savva, London Business School
Stefan Scholtes, University of Cambridge
The department invites submissions that advance knowledge of how to better organize and manage innovation and delivery of healthcare services in developed, emerging, or developing economies and how to improve the health and well-being of populations and organizational workforces. Papers will offer rigorously evaluated insights that are of significant practical relevance for leaders across healthcare and other sectors (senior managers, clinicians, policy makers).
Papers should be context-specific and problem-oriented, focusing on significant challenges of healthcare management, including improving patient access, improving outcomes and patient experience, reducing costs, reducing errors, managing demand, optimizing patient flow, measuring and improving population health, optimizing public health programs, leveraging technology, engaging the workforce, developing new business models, improving alignment and coordination between organizations, or improving organizational learning and innovation capabilities.
The department encourages submissions that engage with current industry trends and their managerial challenges, such as the digitization of patient records, genomics and precision medicine, value-based healthcare, integrated care, patient empowerment, behavior, and choice.
Papers may draw on theory across disciplines, as appropriate for the problem addressed, and use statistical, modeling, or experimental methodologies. The department particularly welcomes papers that exploit large, granular data sets and leverage the emerging field of data analytics.
Criteria for publication are (i) the paper’s potential for practical impact, (ii) the strength of its analysis and evidence, and (iii) the originality of its main insight. The department prefers short and focused papers. Submissions must contain a concise nontechnical executive summary that identifies the paper’s intended practitioner audience and outlines its key novel insight and practical implications (maximum 200 words).
